Special Reports
Mexico’s future is on the flip of a coin.
For over five years, discord, disorder, and backwardness have prevailed in Mexico of the 4 T. The country needs precisely the opposite: without harmony, order becomes difficult; without order, progress is impossible; without progress, the country exacerbates its inhabitants’ problems. It is as simple as …
Luis Maizel’s Monthly Letter: Are we doing well……. or not?
The question in the title applies to both Mexico and the United States. There are countries where the answer is definitely no, such as Israel, Ukraine, Russia, or Turkey, but when focusing on the United States or Mexico, the answer is unclear, as there are …
Warren Buffett’s 2023 Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders
Image: on YouTube Charlie Munger – The Architect of Berkshire Hathaway Charlie Munger died on November 28, just 33 days before his 100th birthday. Though born and raised in Omaha, he spent 80% of his life domiciled elsewhere. Consequently, it was not until 1959 when he was 35 that I first met him. In 1962, …
Mexico: First report of political violence
Executive Summary 1.- Organized crime intervenes in elections through: i) assassinations, assaults, and threats against public officials and candidates, ii) campaign financing, iii)imposition of candidates, iv) mobilization or inhibition of voting, and v) tampering with votes at polling stations.2.- Organized crime will intervene (more than …
GPF: The Big Picture of Mexican Exports
Allison Fedirka To read the whole document, the controls for turning pages and zooming in or out are at the bottom left corner above. geopoliticalfutures.com Further Reading:
Luis Maizel’s Monthly Letter: Where is the recession?
January was a complicated month around the world, with an indefinite prolongation of war conflicts, the beginning of electoral campaigns in 43 countries (47% of the world’s population will elect a new government this year, the highest % in history) and economic pressure in many …
The divided Republic shall fall
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Just as some label all their objects of hatred as “neoliberal”, there are also those who proclaim that the concept of “liberalism” can summarize the origins and purposes of a modern, functional, and democratic society. Using the epithet “neoliberalism” has the purpose …
Mexico’s Constitutional Amendments: what to expect.
On February 5, President López Obrador is expected to present a batch of tenconstitutional amendments before Congress that will propose changes regardingpensions, minimum wage, the electoral and judicial systems, autonomous bodies, therecall of mandate, and the armed forces, among others. In our view, these proposals …
The Financial Times presents A Testing Year for Democracy.
The Editor of the Financial Times, Roula Khalaf, addressed a letter to its readers welcoming to Democracy 2024 with a series of articles and short films marking an extraordinary year ahead. “More than half the global population is potentially voting in elections this year. Some …