Meditations

Luis Rubio Over the past three years, the Mexican president’s discourse has modified the vectors of Mexican politics. Many elements that were taken for granted have been exposed as puny or insubstantial. In contrast, attempts have proliferated to explain the phenomenon that the president represents, …

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Mexico Peace Index 2022

Institute for Economics & Peace Identifying and Measuring the Factors that Drive Peace To read the whole document, the controls for turning pages and zooming in or out are at the bottom left corner above.

On Poverty and its Trend in North America

Photo: Stas_V on iStock The Poverty rate in the United States from 1990 to 2020 Image: Statista Published by Statista Research Department, Sep 21, 2021. In 2020, around 11.4 percent of the population was living below the national poverty line in the United States. Poverty in the United States As shown in the statistic above, the poverty rate …

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Fractures

Luis Rubio The president enjoys a high popularity rating, more elevated for the first time (if only by a couple of percentage points) than his recent predecessors at this point in the game. This popularity has two relevant characteristics: on the one hand, it bears …

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Their True Colors

Luis Rubio The objective is clear: stay in power beyond 2024 at any price.  Showing their true colors is the latest novelty brandished by the lousy transformers of the Fourth Transformation. The electoral legislation in force in electoral matters dates from the nineties, within the …

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                                            626,000

Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The WHO estimates that 626,000 people have died from Covid-19 in Mexico, in contrast to the 324,334 corresponding to the government’s count. There is a difference of 301,666 people dead between the WHO estimate and the Mexican government’s. Is the figure irrelevant? …

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