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Mexico’s Broken Politics

Image: Kagenmi on iStockLuis Rubio  “All politics are local,” Tip O’Neil famously quipped. In Mexico, all politics today are about elections and especially about the midterms of June 6. From his...

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Mexico’s President Growing Polarization

Photo: CUARTOSCURO on am.com.mx Angry for his negative results, he rushes laws and regulations unfriendly to domestic and foreign private investment. The government that claims to be in...

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Struck Out

Photo: news.culturacolectiva.comLuis RubioA tweet at the beginning of the week summed up the moment: “The President prepared more for the march of women than he did for the vaccination.”...

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Evolution of GDP in Mexico

On Thursday, July 30, INEGI released the GDP data for Q2. It was not a surprise that the actual figure is much worse than we anticipated (-14%), as many...

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Narratives

Photo: Maria on PexelsLuis RubioOne of the characteristics that define the government is its insistence on the past: in stark contrast with its predecessors, which always promised a better...

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Mexico’s Economy Q2, 2020

The fall of the economy during the second quarter of the year was 18.7% a figure never seen before (in 1932 there were no quarterly measurements, but the yearly...