Starting over

Image: Breakingpic on Pexels Antonio Navalón Faced with changes and uncertainty in life, people always reach a point where the best way to reactivate the general engine of illusions is to start over. Each time a cycle ends, an administration ends, and a new six-year term begins. Every time one marriage ends and another begins, …

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To destroy

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 …

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Trump Commits Financial Vandalism

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 …

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Playing With Fire

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 …

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Against Nature

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 …

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The rationale for the US Electoral College

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 …

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The USA, a Banana Republic?

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 …

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Corruption and Impunity

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 …

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Why is the US Electoral System so Complex?

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 …

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Blood Votes

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 …

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