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Against Nature

Photo: Sangeet Rao on Pexels Luis Rubio The saying goes that one defies nature at their own expense and risk. In economic matters, there is ample evidence of the risks involved in challenging the most elementary human principles. Devoting governmental activity to reconstructing an era that remained behind and that cannot able be recreated cannot …

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The rationale for the US Electoral College

Photo: Pinkypills on iStock José Manuel Suárez Mier * Last week, I began discussing why the electoral process in the US to elect a president is so tangled. It all started with the importance that the 13 colonies to confederate in a union gave to their sovereignty and the equality of representation they would have …

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The USA, a Banana Republic?

Photo: Ovidiu Creanga on Unsplash Antonio Navalón For many years, what marked the difference between some developed countries’ political work and those of emerging countries or those contemptuously known as banana republics, was that the developed ones were considered “serious countries.” For four years since Donald Trump won the US election, the world has been …

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Corruption and Impunity

Image: iStock by Getty Images Luis Rubio The key question is whether corruption is a tool to advance a political project or an evil that should be eradicated. What is certain is that two purposes cannot be achieved simultaneously because this would be a flagrant contradiction: corruption is either utilized, or it is prosecuted with …

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Why is the US Electoral System so Complex?

Photo: Pixabay on Pexels José Manuel Suárez Mier* It has become commonplace to denounce that the US electoral system is “undemocratic” by not having universal and direct suffrage and that it must be changed without understanding the reasons for its existence and how it is a basic element in the genuine federalism that the new …

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Blood Votes

Photo: Pedro Figueras on Pexels Antonio Navalón In this 2020, the year that never existed, the year of Covid-19, and the year where it seemed that the total degradation of the values ​​and powers of a democratic society was going to be consolidated, surprise swiftly appeared. Suddenly, reality hit us human beings, who continue to …

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Hangover

Photo: Kelly Lacy on Pexels Luis Rubio “Americans, Churchill supposedly said, will always do the right thing — after exhausting all the alternatives.” And boy have they tried their best! Obama and Trump stretched the limits of their mandate to the utmost, in opposite directions, polarizing their society and accentuating the fault lines that already …

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A Volcano of Hate

Popocatépetl Volcano Antonio Navalón One of the most important characteristics of what will happen tomorrow in the US election – regardless of how long it will take to find out who and how he won – is the dangerous walk on the expression of hatred that the presidential term of Donald Trump has meant. The …

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Popularity

Photo: Bernard Bodo on Istock Luis Rubio The popularity of the President of Mexico, while lower than before and of some of his predecessors, continues to be high. Many ask themselves how this is possible given the complex, uncertain, and remarkably deteriorated situation of the country and of the economy. The President has devoted himself …

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Fellow President

Photo: Kiyoshi Tanno on iStock Antonio Navalón Regardless of who will be elected to sit in the White House next week, from that day on, a political event of special relevance will reshape our closest environment, and that is that the United States is back. Since September 11, 2001, the United States had to pick …

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