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The Extremes Become Twins

Photo: Dynamic Wang on Unsplash Manuel Suárez Mier* The extreme right and the extreme left have more in common than is usually thought: both reject the liberalism that emerged from the Enlightenment, which maintains that respect for the law is critical to creating institutions that allow the creation of “positive-sum” entities that generate confidence and …

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The killer of the world we knew

Photo: Felipe Vallin on Pexels Antonio Naval��n Every day that passes, a new horror story is produced – if that even fits – to the societies we live in. Flying restrictions. Restrictions to arrive. Increasingly strict confinements. The multiplication of contagions occurs as an unstoppable hemorrhage. It is as if we were part of a …

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Power and Government

Photo: Evelyn Chong on Pexels Luis Rubio The paradox of power is old and known: the more of it, the less the concern for its use, thus the greater the risk for its being abused. The Mexican economy grew during some decades in the past century thanks to the government’s being a guarantor of political …

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The US Senate must convict Trump.

Photo: C-SPAN Manuel Suárez-Mier* Although Trump has already left the United States capital, his presence is still toxic as his impeachment in Congress continues, passed already in the House of Representatives, with a single article accusing him of “inciting insurrection” by arguing in a spurious manner and mendacity, that there was a massive electoral fraud. …

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USA: the Bipolar Tiger

Photo: george Desipris on Pexels Antonio Navalón With believers praying and looking to heaven as if they were invoking divine protection. In fear that it happened for the first time what had never happened before, this was the sworn-in of the 46th president of the United States of America, Joseph Biden. Photo: Jeanetta Richardson on …

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Mexico from the United States

Photo: Viktor Cap on iStock Luis Rubio “The best national interest for the United States is for Mexico to become a prosperous country,” I was told by General Brent Scowcroft, the National Security Advisor of the first President Bush when I interviewed him for a book on NAFTA’s 20th anniversary. The consummation of that treaty …

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Dark Times

Photo: Ryan De Hamer on Unsplash Antonio Navalón One of the most important cultural breaks that humanity is aware of was the Middle Ages’ passage to the Renaissance. This was a complete change that coincided with the explosion of some of the most important pandemics – for example, the Black Plague – that took place …

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Incompetence and Dogma Pose Deadly Threats

Photo: Sergei Chuyko on iStock Manuel Suárez-Mier* Mexico’s top energy bureaucrats are fans of AMLO but lack critical knowledge and experience to manage the key sector successfully. Mexico has always been treated by the US national security establishment as an afterthought, which is a big mistake since the possible consequences to the US of a …

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Here we go

Photo: Anastasia Shuraeva on Pexels Luis Rubio This will be the decisive year for Mexico. It will be the last opportunity for the government and the last opportunity for the opposition. The clash of those two forces will determine whether Mexico will continue adrift or whether it will find its way in the face of …

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The Tacky Evildoer is Kicked out of the White House

Photo: Jon Tyson on Unsplash Manuel Suárez Mier Four years ago, with Donald Trump recently inaugurated as US president, I published in Excélsior a prophetic text of what his performance in office would be entitled “A barbaric arrived at the White House.”* However, I never thought he would attempt a coup to stay. For those …

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