Photo: Benjamín Flores on Proceso.com.mx Luis Rubio The art of governing, says David Konzevik, is the art of managing the gap between the expectations that the citizenry entertains and the day-to-day realities. Mexico is a living example of the enormous breach between both factors and the incapacity of its governments to bridge it. The question …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* I began last week the account of racism in the United States and how an opposite current of thought and indoctrination emerged that seeks to amend the horror of slavery and racial discrimination by arguing that “race is a cultural category …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* Unlike Ibero-America, where the fusion of races and Christianization took place only when the first explorers arrived, the United States has had a conflictive history of extermination and discrimination, first of indigenous Indians and then of the black slaves essential to …
Image: Evgeny Gromov on iStock Luis Rubio An old proverb has it that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Something like this happened to Mexico when successive electoral reforms were negotiated. All of them were conceived by political actors who wanted to lead Mexico towards political stability (especially those from 1958 to …
Image: dntPHOTOGRAPHY on iStock Luis Rubio President López Obrador came to power with the clear idea that the reforms approved from the year 1982 would have to be repelled. In his mind, Mexico’s problems started with those reforms, which is why they must be reverted. From the beginning of his administration, the president has neutralized …
Antonio Navalón Being less than 1,300 days to the end of his administration, there is the possibility that López Obrador will change his dialectic. June 6, 1944 – also known as D-Day – was the start of the countdown to the culmination of World War …
Photo: Jens Johnson on Pexels Luis Rubio Citizens spoke clearly, and now the entire political apparatus will have to adjust to a new reality. With great wisdom, the population ratified their confidence in the INE, the electoral authority, rejected the excesses of the president, demanded sanity from the political actors, and continues to seek “change.” …
The insignificance of the Mexican President has already infected the country. One cannot imagine Mexico’s President Adolfo López Mateos (1958-1964) receiving Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, instead of President John F. Kennedy, or President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964-1970) receiving Vice president Hubert Humprey instead of …
