The insignificance of the Mexican President has already infected the country. One cannot imagine Mexico’s President Adolfo López Mateos (1958-1964) receiving Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, instead of President John F. Kennedy, or President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1964-1970) receiving Vice president Hubert Humprey instead of …
Antonio Navalón In the midst of the discussion and the claims to count ballot by ballot and polling station by polling station – in the way of bringing back what happened in 2006 – today, what is a reality is the confrontation that Mexicans have …
Photo: Element Digital on Pexels Luis Rubio Today’s the day (Sunday), the day of the citizenry. The day on which, with their vote, the citizens will individually express their feelings for the government and their expectations for the future. There have been few times that a midterm election has been so transcendental, and that is …
José Manuel Suárez Mier* Central banks were created to provide strength to countries’ financial systems, acting as their lender of last resort and offering the necessary liquidity to face the recurring crises that afflict the banking systems and thus restore or preserve their stability. In …
Antonio Navalón In the morning after the elections, things will be terribly confusing. For the good of everyone and the country, I hope this is not the case. We are at a time in the history of humanity in which emotions have definitely managed to …
Image: Giulia May on Unsplash Luis Rubio Next Sunday, June 6, will be a key day for the future of Mexico. It is the day on which the electorate will decide whether it will vote for the existence of counterweights to power or whether it will ratify the course that, step by step, the president …
Jose Manuel Suárez Mier* I was thinking of writing today about the presidential outburst regarding the leader of the Bank of Mexico, whom he will exchange for “an economist with a social dimension,” but my dear friend Isaac Katz has already written, and better, everything …
Manuel Suárez-Mier * Mexican President has effectively declared himself the sole arbiter of the nation’s democratic processes as his popularity plummets new lows. With crucial midterm elections in two weeks, the political situation in Mexico is deteriorating quickly. The government promotes polarization and violent confrontation …
Antonio Navalón The America that rules, the one that financially dominates the planet, has a very complicated agenda. The other America, that of the South, has lived amidst the convulsions of populism. From the beginning, there have always been two Americas. From the time of …
Photo: Amar Kun Kawakibi on Unsplash Luis Rubio An old aphorism holds that nostalgia is not what it used to be. However, it constitutes a heavy burden that never quite disappears. Two sources of nostalgia cloud Spartans and Trojans in current Mexican politics. The president leads with his nostalgia for the seventies, the idyllic moment …