The Court of the Past

Antonio Navalón Every day it is more difficult to understand the actions of our leaders. More often than not, our political leaders do things that only they seem to be able to understand. I want to believe that their way of acting transcends having other …

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2021 Investment Climate Statements: Mexico

U.S. Department of State Executive Summary In 2020, Mexico became the United States’ third largest trading partner in goods and services and second largest in goods only.  It remains one of our most important investment partners.  Bilateral trade grew 482.2 percent from 1993-2020, and Mexico …

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Coercion

Photo: Alycia Fung on Pexels Luis Rubio “The compulsion to silence others is as old as the urge to speak,” affirms Eric Berkowitz* in an extraordinary study on censorship. For nearly a century, the post-Revolutionary Mexican government suppressed freedom of expression, engaged in all sorts of efforts to censure the media, controlled the conversation, and …

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Who is in Charge in Mexico?

        An enraged mob attacks a military garrison; the soldiers surrender and hand over their weapons and the military installation to the aggressors. In another part of the country, an army platoon is attacked by residents who do not accept their presence in that area; …

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Pettiness or Greatness

Image: Gearstd on iStock Luis Rubio The dearth of statesmen in the world, argued Napoleon, is due to the complexity inherent in the function: “to get the power you need to display absolute pettiness. To exercise power, you need to show true greatness.” Nearly three years after he assumed the presidency, it is evident that …

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The Republic of Words

Antonio Navalón Since the time of Ronald Reagan, Ambassador John Gavin made the everlasting theme of drug trafficking fashionable, of the corruption that surrounded it, of its penetration and dominance in Mexico, a new stage has been making its way into national life. Under the …

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