#MEXICO
The Limits
Antonio Navalón Last week, Mexico’s Secretary of Finance, Rogelio Ramirez de la O, met with investors in London. It is not very difficult to imagine what the questions were or the main reason why the official attended the meeting in the British capital. Naturally, those …
The Pink Tide Speaks Out
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Congratulations to the French people on their political intelligence. They created a broad citizen’s agreement between forces of the center and the left, which succeeded in stopping the populism that proposes to destroy their country’s constitutional institutionality. The citizens’ organizations that made …
The Assault on the National Palace.
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce “The parliamentary republic, in its struggle against the oppositions, was forced to strengthen, along with repressive measures, the means and centralization of government power. All revolutions perfected this machine instead of destroying it”. Marx, Karl. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. The …
The Obverse
Luis Rubio Leaders inherit their circumstances, affirm Zelikow and Rice.* “Facing those circumstances between the years 1988 and 1992, some leaders chose, quite deliberately, to transform the basic operating principles of whole societies. They chose to abolish countries and create new ones. They chose to …
Only What is Understood is Learned.
Antonio Navalón It is not witchcraft. It is not a miracle. It is an insight into the closest reality, knowing that there was a time when the separation of powers and the so-called bourgeois democracy was the picture painted on the wall of the history …
Macron and Biden put Liberalism in Jeopardy
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The political-electoral crises facing French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Joe Biden put many things at risk, perhaps the least of which is their re-election. Both societies are being pressured by populist leaders’ proposals that exploit their deep-seated fears. In both …
Radicals and Reformists in Conflict
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The dangers threatening Mexico in this transitional period between governments are highly explosive and have the potential to dynamite the incoming government. Despite coming from the same political movement, the differences between the main actors are beginning to emerge and suggest the …
The Transition and the Team: Archipelago or Continent?
Otto Granados Roldán For now, no one knows for sure what Claudia Sheinbaum’s administration will be like. We have some names of staff members and a set of phrases, commonplaces, assumptions, and good wishes. The usual routine in changes of government. But to put it …