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 …
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 …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* My respected colleague and friend Macario Schettino published an article in which he maintains that the only way workers’ wages can be seriously raised is through increases in the labor force’s productivity that increase the competitiveness of the economy. He cites …
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 …
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 …
Juan Villoro Each event derives from circumstances that are not always logical. On August 9, 1945, the Bockscar bomber took off from its base in the Mariana Islands to Kokura, on the island of Kyushu, where the Nippon Steel factory, decisive for the Japanese military …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* The absurd proposals to entrust central banks with fighting global warming by “greening” the financial system, which I have dealt with in this column in the last installments, extend to the entire productive apparatus, which if achieved would bring about a …
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 …
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.” …
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 …