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Spending and Borrowing, a New Orthodoxy

February 22, 2021October 22, 2020

Photo: Karolina Grabowska on Pexels José Manuel Suárez-Mier It is incredible how the basic principles to maintain a healthy economy with a fiscal balance in the long term, with fortuitous passages of public spending deficit only in emergencies such as wars or economic depressions, have been exchanged for unlimited spending financed with public debt …

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To Let Loose The Fear

February 22, 2021October 19, 2020

Photo: Korhan Erdol on Pexels Antonio Naval��n The first confinement, the first symbol of terror, the first massive use of that collective good called hope, brought curiosity and fear. In the same way, this confinement made us want to believe that someone somewhere knew what they were doing. But, starting with washing our hands like …

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The Nostalgic

February 22, 2021October 16, 2020

Photo: Fernando Venzano on Unsplash Luis Rubio In memory of Dr. Guillermo Soberón Jorge Manrique wrote that “when we say that all time past was better, we condemn the future without knowing it.” The past was not always better, but it is easier to visualize because it stays frozen in time. The new dogma is that the …

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One more turn of the screw towards tyranny in Mexico

February 22, 2021October 13, 2020

Photo: Sefa Ozel on iStock Manuel Suárez Mier Court approves President’s plan for a referendum on the prosecution of five predecessors The march of folly has continued in the administration of Mexico’s President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador(AMLO), who is a month and a half shy of his second anniversary in office. On this occasion, we focus …

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Autonomy of México’s Supreme Court is gone

February 22, 2021October 12, 2020

Photo: Samantha Sophia on Unsplash Manuel Suárez Mier Court approves President’s plan for a referendum on the prosecution of five predecessors The separation of powers in Mexico suffered a powerful blow when the Supreme Court ruled in favor last week on the President’s plan to call a referendum to put his five predecessors on trial. …

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So Close, Yet so Far

February 22, 2021October 12, 2020

Photo: Ali Reza Ahmedi on Unsplash Antonio Navalón History has taught us that when the world does not look at you and you are at home free to do what you want or, in other words, when there is no force or power that can face you, you can do the greatest atrocities of the …

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Pretenses

February 22, 2021October 9, 2020

Photo: Alexas Photos on Pexels Luis Rubio If the discourse avows it, it must be true. That’s the way Mexican politics has worked during the past years: 100% rhetoric. One needs no more than to listen to the endless advertisements by legislators claiming to have fixed this and the other problem just because they approved …

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Jeffrey Sachs on Trump and multilateralism

February 22, 2021October 8, 2020

Comments: I think the US is obviously the problem with multilateralism but I disagree with much of his postulates. He is coming from a 20th-century posture regarding multilateralism, and that rested on a ‘Pax Americana’ that is untenable. Much of America’s political discourse concerns government …

Boredom

February 22, 2021October 5, 2020

Photo: Levent Simsek on Pexels Antonio Navalón The modern world – in which Covid-19 is included and this new collective experience of being able to die at any moment suddenly, without prior warning and by the simple fact of having touched the railing of a staircase or the handle of a door – it offers …

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Falling Short

February 22, 2021October 2, 2020

Image: United Nations Luis Rubio “What has to be done if ever the people vote to establish a dictatorship?” wonders Karl Popper, the great student of democracy and open societies. Most democracies, says the author, include provisions to prevent that from happening, such as requiring qualified majorities in Congress. Legally or not, the fact is …

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