Luis Rubio When the government of a country finds itself in financial trouble, it has two possible solutions: it can reduce its excessive expenditures, or it can transfer the problem to the citizenry. The first course incentivizes growth because it ceases diverting resources to socially …
Photo: Mathias P.R. Reding on Pexels Manuel Suárez Mier Foreign policy should serve the country’s interests, which is not the case with the current Mexican government. Recent decisions attest to this, such as access to the United Nations Security Council and Washington’s visit. Image: United Nations Mexico has been a random member of the Security …
Juan Villoro Comrades in struggle during the years of exile and the underground, Daniel Ortega and Sergio Ramírez were the architects of the Sandinista movement that put an end to the Somoza family dictatorship in Nicaragua. From 1985 to 1990, Ortega was president and Ramirez …
Antonio Navalón Seeing how the big names in national politics run and act; those who are part of the government, the Senate, the Party currently in power, or who are close to the President of the Republic, is something a bit endearing. Between performances and …
Photo: Jill Burrow Luis Rubio At the end of the Cold War, Fukuyama wrote an article entitled “The End of History,” in which he postulated that the world had arrived at a consensus about the way forward. Twenty years later, with wars in the Middle East in vogue, Jennifer Welsh published “The Return of History,” …
Antonio Navalón The first day of September 1939 was the day on which World War II broke out. “Black September” was the name of one of the most fearsome terrorist groups led by the Palestinian organization Al-Fatah in the 1970s. Looking into the future, I …
Luis Rubio The way the Morena-party government functions, especially with President López Obrador’s early-morning press conferences, reminds me of an old Russian joke. It was about a peasant farmer whose neighbor saves enough to purchase a goat. The peasant asks God to put right this injustice and God answers, asking the peasant what he wants …
Manuel Suárez Mier Friedman 50 years later.September 13 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of Milton Friedman’s influential essay, The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase Profits, in the New York Times Magazine (NYT), which set the standard for business priorities until recently …
Antonio Navalón From the Book of Books to the other installments that history has given us as if they were a kind of bundles of the Apocalypse, it is written that there are times when crises are triggered and behave in such a way that …
Luis Rubio For every action (force) in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton’s Third Law of Motion is similarly applicable to physics and politics. Governments define their objectives and means to achieve them, and the population has to deal with the consequences: …