Luis Rubio The U.S. establishment achieved converting the pandemic into another point of contention and polarization. The matter adds to an infinity of factors that divides Americans, and that produced, during the last decade and a half, three polar-opposite administrations: Obama, Trump, and now Biden’s. …
Image: iStock on Getty Images Manuel Suárez-Mier* The bilateral agenda between Mexico and the United States is always the same. However, the emphasis on each of the issues changes depending on the governments in charge and the circumstances that prevail. Image: Morningbrew on Unsplash Trade; regional security; drug trafficking combat, from south to north, and …
Photo: Matthew Sichkaruk on Unsplash Antonio Navalón There was a time when, in politics, to protect institutions and persecute those who sought to dynamite States’ structure, the main job was to find where the serpent’s egg nested. That snake that represented terrorism, anarchism, the destruction of the known order and that fed extreme positions or …
Image: By William Sadler – Napoleon.org.pl, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15176449 Luis Rubio There is no doubt that each government makes its own history, some by what they achieve, others by their dogmatism. If something characterizes the current Mexican government is its total absence of the capacity (or willingness) to learn. The script is absolute and immovable, …
Photo: Özgür Özkan on Pexels Manuel Suárez Mier* On a visit my admired teacher Milton Friedman made to China before he fervently embraced the market economy that allowed him to become the giant he is today, his hosts took him to visit facilities and projects under construction of which they were proud. Stopping at a …
Photo: Pyxabay on Pexels Antonio Navalón The story is new. Now we will have to see if it is possible to rectify everything that has led us to this point. Crises have multiplied, and humanity – always playing with danger, always on edge, and still trying to do better – faces hitherto unknown paradigms and …
Photo: Julia Volk on Pexels Luis Rubio It has become frequent to state, with profound conviction, that everything in the past was bad and that for that reason, the current government constitutes the salvation of Mexico. While for some, this is rhetoric, for many, it is an absolute truth that does not admit a debate. …
Photo: Wikipedia Manuel Suárez Mier* I did not get to know George Schultz when I arrived at the University of Chicago in 1970 because he had ceased being dean of the School of Business a year and a half earlier to join Richard Nixon’s cabinet as Secretary of Labor. Still, his academic fame as an …
Photo: Author Unknown, www. railwaysarchive.co.uk on Wikipedia Antonio Navalón For a long time, political scientists and government officials –especially in Mexico– made analyzes to determine how they would fare with the change of president and administration in the United States of America. As for Mexico, this year is not like all the others: exceptional, new, …
Image: Xtockimages on iStock Luis Rubio Beijing in 1980 was a shabby town. A few grand and empty avenues led to the Forbidden City and the great Tiananmen Square, the city’s political heart. Every so often, bicycles went by, these the ubiquitous people’s means of transportation, used for everything, as moving vans and distributing all …