Broken Spain

Antonio Navalón Spain, and everything that a country with such strong roots and consequences in the European Union means, has entered an uncertainty stage. From the beginning, from the adventure that was the political transition from the Franco dictatorship to Juancardista democracy, there was a …

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About the Reforms

Image: Evgeny Gromov on iStock Luis Rubio An old proverb has it that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Something like this happened to Mexico when successive electoral reforms were negotiated. All of them were conceived by political actors who wanted to lead Mexico towards political stability (especially those from 1958 to …

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The Young Biden.

Antonio Navalón There was a time when the world was for real. Currently, it is not that in the age of Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, bullets kill less. Nor is it that viruses are delusional dreams of science fiction creators. Before, the world was a …

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Institutional Mayhem

Image: dntPHOTOGRAPHY on iStock Luis Rubio President López Obrador came to power with the clear idea that the reforms approved from the year 1982 would have to be repelled. In his mind, Mexico’s problems started with those reforms, which is why they must be reverted. From the beginning of his administration, the president has neutralized …

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The Countdown

Antonio Navalón Being less than 1,300 days to the end of his administration, there is the possibility that López Obrador will change his dialectic. June 6, 1944 – also known as D-Day – was the start of the countdown to the culmination of World War …

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Three Years

Photo: Jens Johnson on Pexels Luis Rubio Citizens spoke clearly, and now the entire political apparatus will have to adjust to a new reality. With great wisdom, the population ratified their confidence in the INE, the electoral authority, rejected the excesses of the president, demanded sanity from the political actors, and continues to seek “change.” …

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The Green Swan*, Hollow Glibness

José Manuel Suárez Mier** The Network of Banks and Banking Supervisors to “Green” the Financial System (NGFS), together with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), organized last week their conference entitled The Green Swan 2021 to “define the immediate …

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