Luis Rubio At the beginning of the year 2000, Mexico was facing a crossroads. The electoral contest was taking shape, the electoral institutions had been duly installed, and the expectation, overly justified, was that the electoral jousts would be clean, competitive, and pacific. However, no …
Alex Murrell Introduction: In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid took the unusual step of hiring a market research firm. Their brief was simple. Understand what Americans desire most in a work of art. Over 11 days the researchers …
Antonio Navalón I promise not to watch AMLO’s morning press conference shows anymore. I promise that from now on, my brain will be dedicated to thinking of something Mr. President has not suggested. I promise I will remember that the solution to all our problems …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Mexican State is directly responsible for the murder of the 39 migrants killed in Ciudad Juarez. The best proof of this is the desperate, crude, and empathy-lacking attempts to evade all responsibility for the homicide exhibited by the country’s top political …
Luis Rubio What is the moment at which the social order breaks down? When is it most probable for a society to enter processes of confrontation outside of the established institutional channels? Questions like these are the material of permanent discussion and analysis in academic …
Antonio Navalón For many decades, the U.S. capital has been the silent witness – and sometimes even participant – of significant changes that have taken hold across the planet. After all, this is a place that, after 240 years of being a free and independent …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The 28th Iberoamerican Summit ended with a minimum agreement to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the countries. Still, it was unable to agree on that criterion in the case of the Russian invasion of Ukraine due to political differences between …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce There are important signs of resistance by the people to the failure of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The government perceives this resistance and makes the President go on the offensive. The resort to governing with daily rhetoric, telling lies, …
Luis Rubio The neighborhood is not only complicated but also extraordinarily contrasting. Although the border region between Mexico and the United States constitutes an exceptional space, distant from Mexico City as well as from Washington, the reality is that it is the most critical flashpoint …
Luis Rubio Mexicans seem to enjoy economic and political crossroads; the country is often faced with one because it seldom addresses its underlying challenges. Now, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, has chosen to avoid economic crossroads altogether by simply killing the goose …