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Luis Maizel’s Monthly Letter: Divided Congress, Good or Bad?

December 3, 2022December 1, 2022

Image: Wildpixel on iStock After a very messy election and nearly $17 billion in campaign spending, the Democrats did better than projected and retained the Senate, although they lost control of the House of Representatives. People wonder why, at a time of enormous inflation, crime in the streets, and a rather incapable president with popularity …

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Dreaming the Impossible

November 27, 2022November 27, 2022

Antonio Navalón It is striking that in the history of Mexico – even before the Conquest – it is the impossible dream that almost always explains how events unfolded and, above all, why we constantly set out and analyze what remains after failure. If one …

AMLO, Petro: War on Drugs?

November 27, 2022November 27, 2022

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce After a reported “five-hour” conversation, the Presidents of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro, announced an agreement to reconsider the strategy to fight drugs. They apparently decided that the fight against drugs, driven mainly by successive US governments, has …

On the Agony of the End of Power

November 26, 2022

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce AMLO is overwhelmed by what it means to lose the presidency: he will have to render accounts that are impossible to explain. The time comes for every state leader when he must explain how he spent the money that society entrusted him …

Risks

November 26, 2022November 25, 2022

Luis Rubio All societies face risks, but the risk that Mexico and Mexicans confront today is immeasurable, above all, because it is self-inflicted. Mexico and the U.S. are advancing in the direction of a potentially uncontainable train wreck that, with enormous ease, could lead to …

Mexico as a Declining Power

November 20, 2022November 20, 2022

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The Brazilian candidate to head the Inter-American Development Bank, Ilan Goldfajn, won the leadership in an election that pitted two Latin American giants, Mexico and Brazil, against each other. Goldfajn won the election with 80.08% of the votes cast. Argentina, which had …

Mexico & US-Nearshoring haven or Heading for a Trade War/

November 18, 2022November 16, 2022

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Hatred Alone is Not Enough

November 13, 2022November 12, 2022

Antonio Navalón Last November 8 will go down in US history as a turning point – if the trend of the mid-term election results holds -. It was a campaign that quietly and silently uncovered not only the winners and losers of the American representation …

The Counterweight that was Not to be.

November 8, 2022

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 …

Death Rattles

November 5, 2022November 4, 2022

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 …