Image: Rost 9D on iStock Luis Rubio Things were assuredly not perfect, and it had been some time since the promise of being part of the first world had dissipated. But the reality was not black and white: Mexico had taken great strides forward, as illustrated by its aeronautical, automotive, and agro-industrial exports. States such …
Photo: Carlos Pernalete Tua on Pexels José Manuel Suárez-Mier* Krugman’s recent writing seems to me worthy of attention because of the serious dangers it augurs I do not usually pay attention to the writings of Paul Krugman in the NYT because they are usually the ravings of a radical progressive and not the thoughtful analyzes …
Photo: Pixabay on Pexels Antonio Navalón The bets are crossed. Everyone wants to know if we will be part of the New or Old Testament. The outcome, will it be an eye for an eye? Or, is it that using the old institutionalization of what was once the United States, will Joe Biden forgive all …
Photo: Sangeet Rao on Pexels Luis Rubio The saying goes that one defies nature at their own expense and risk. In economic matters, there is ample evidence of the risks involved in challenging the most elementary human principles. Devoting governmental activity to reconstructing an era that remained behind and that cannot able be recreated cannot …
Photo: Pinkypills on iStock José Manuel Suárez Mier * Last week, I began discussing why the electoral process in the US to elect a president is so tangled. It all started with the importance that the 13 colonies to confederate in a union gave to their sovereignty and the equality of representation they would have …
Photo: Ovidiu Creanga on Unsplash Antonio Navalón For many years, what marked the difference between some developed countries’ political work and those of emerging countries or those contemptuously known as banana republics, was that the developed ones were considered “serious countries.” For four years since Donald Trump won the US election, the world has been …
Image: iStock by Getty Images Luis Rubio The key question is whether corruption is a tool to advance a political project or an evil that should be eradicated. What is certain is that two purposes cannot be achieved simultaneously because this would be a flagrant contradiction: corruption is either utilized, or it is prosecuted with …
Photo: Pixabay on Pexels José Manuel Suárez Mier* It has become commonplace to denounce that the US electoral system is “undemocratic” by not having universal and direct suffrage and that it must be changed without understanding the reasons for its existence and how it is a basic element in the genuine federalism that the new …
Photo: Pedro Figueras on Pexels Antonio Navalón In this 2020, the year that never existed, the year of Covid-19, and the year where it seemed that the total degradation of the values and powers of a democratic society was going to be consolidated, surprise swiftly appeared. Suddenly, reality hit us human beings, who continue to …
Photo: Kelly Lacy on Pexels Luis Rubio “Americans, Churchill supposedly said, will always do the right thing — after exhausting all the alternatives.” And boy have they tried their best! Obama and Trump stretched the limits of their mandate to the utmost, in opposite directions, polarizing their society and accentuating the fault lines that already …