Is a leaderless world feasible?

Whether “A Leaderless and Divided World will be the New Normal” was discussed at a virtual conference hosted by the Singapore Summit. Niall Fergusson asserted: “The world has an inherent need for leadership. If the U.S. genuinely can no longer provide it, someone else will. Perhaps China, perhaps — who knows — a European Union who now …

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Realities and Ruptures

Photo: iStock by Getty Images Luis Rubio “Each generation doubtless feels called upon to save the world” Albert Camus begins saying in his speech on obtaining the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature. That is the spirit with which Mexican President López Obrador appears to have undertaken his government: change everything. There were good reasons to …

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The New Context

Photo: iStock by Getty Images Luis Rubio King Canute of Denmark (990 A.D.) is famous for having positioned his throne on the beach surrounded by his entire entourage; seated near the waves, he commanded these to come to a halt, but ended up being drenched by them: Canute was ordering the waves to halt not …

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The end of the wait

Photo: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Antonio Navalón The world clears its throat. In a physical and figurative sense. We all carry the same thing in our throats: the enormous question of what comes next from here. But do not give it more lapses, everything is clear. It is moving to see how political parties and …

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Mexico’s Investment Climate Statements

2020 Investment Climate Statements: Mexico EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2019, Mexico became the United States’ top trading partner in goods and remains one of its most important investment partners.  Bilateral trade grew 654 percent 1993-2019, and Mexico is the United States’ second largest export market and third largest trading partner.  The United States is …

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One more envelope

Photo: Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash Luis Rubio In the “envelope theory” –an old joke of Mexican politics- the outgoing president leaves three envelopes to his successor. When things get stuck, the president, pressed, remembers the envelopes and opens the first one. “Blame me” says the paper. President López Obrador opened the first envelope sometime prior …

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Against Reality

Photo: Ricardo Gómez Angel on Unsplash Antonio Navalón September has always been, at least for me, the turning point of the years. After spring and summer, fall and winter begin. But this month really means the return of the course, not only the school year but the activity itself. It is the month in which …

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Neighbor at Risk: Mexico’s Deepening Crisis

SEPGRA welcomes CSIS with this report on the current situation and potential risks of one of the countries where we place a priority focus, and its implications for another of the three countries that mostly captures our attention. As our purpose is to provide our …

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The Society

Photo: Zenos Frudakis Luis Rubio According to Marx, “Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of the interrelations of the relations with which these individuals stand.” Mexican society has been thwarted in its opportunity to express itself as a society because the logic of the political system always entailed controlling it. That …

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