Monday, December 23, 2024

Wiesel at the Zocalo

The final march.

Uncertainty

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López Obrador will have to Define his Position.

Photo: Aldiyar Seitkassymov on PexelsRicardo Pascoe PierceThe temporary nature of his power is beginning to anguish him. Entering the second, and last, three years of his six-year term, with...

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Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings: Mexico.

RESEARCH UPDATE: Mexico 'BBB' Foreign Currency And 'BBB+' Local Currency Long-Term Ratings Affirmed; Outlook Remains NegativeOverviewMexico is poised to close 2021 with a 5.8% rebound in GDP, which leaves...

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Pernicious Solutions.

Photo: Ksenia Chernaya on PexelsLuis RubioWhen the government of a country finds itself in financial trouble, it has two possible solutions: it can reduce its excessive expenditures, or it...

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False, all False.

Image: Alphaspirit on iStockAntonio NavalónSeeing how the big names in national politics run and act; those who are part of the government, the Senate, the Party currently in power,...

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The Peña Effect.

Photo: Jill BurrowLuis RubioAt the end of the Cold War, Fukuyama wrote an article entitled "The End of History," in which he postulated that the world had arrived at...

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Changing World

https://youtu.be/qmOnUSE6vjQLuis RubioThe way the Morena-party government functions, especially with President López Obrador’s early-morning press conferences, reminds me of an old Russian joke. It was about a peasant farmer whose...

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Consequences

Photo: Pelayo Arbués on UnsplashLuis RubioFor every action (force) in nature, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Newton's Third Law of Motion is similarly applicable to physics and...

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False Dilemmas.

Image: Daniels Joffe on UnsplashLuis RubioAlexander Pope, a XIX-century English poet, penned the phrase "fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Mexico's relationship with the United States is,...

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