Luis Rubio Between the seventies and the nineties, Mexico underwent an era of financial crises, the product, in a good measure, of the laxity with which the public finances were managed: enormous deficits, vast levels of debt (mainly in foreign currency), and little attention to …
Once upon a time, there was a beautiful country in the middle of two oceans where nature was gorgeous and generous; its people were diverse in appearance, culture, and dialects; they built pyramids, calculated calendars, worshiped, and registered the movement of celestial bodies. Millennia later, …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce This week the Mexican President reiterated what he has said: he will violate the law when, in his judgment, he must defend the poor. This approach makes the President violate constitutional precepts daily, starting with his morning press conference (Mañanera). By attacking …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The reflection of the times. On June 19, 1982, Mexico City’s Zócalo (Mexico City’s main square) witnessed the first independent mobilization in its history. The Unified Socialist Party of Mexico (PSUM) occupied the space to celebrate Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo’s candidacy for the …
Luis Rubio The engine of political liberalization -and of the incipient Mexican democracy- was the succession of electoral reforms that, from the year 1958, but above all in 1996, was experienced by Mexican society. Each of those reforms responded to its own circumstances, but that …
Luis Rubio The Supreme Court of Justice was the first branch of government to experience drastic transformation in modern Mexico. In an attempt to advance the consolidation of a new political regime, one based on democratic elections and checks and balances, the Supreme Court was …
Luis Rubio The fight for the National Electoral Institute (INE) entails two very simple explanations. First, it is evident that at this point, there is no guarantee of the continuity of the so-called Fourth Transformation (4T) or, at best, of the Morena party. Natural attrition …
Tonatiuh Guillén López* The migration of Mexicans to the United States, as is well known, has a very long history and has gone through different stages and all possible difficulties. Also, it is true with numerous success stories of those who settled in the neighboring …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Inflation is an indirect tax imposed on everyone who pays to buy, sell and consume. It is, in fact, an indirect and invisible tax since it is set by the market, not as a result of a governmental decree. In recent days …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Morena did not manage to break the opposition alliance in the Senate, triggering a new political scenario. In multiple sectors, political agreements are creaking and tend to break down or move towards redefinitions of form and substance. This situation opens new windows …