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Hangover

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 …

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A Volcano of Hate

Popocatépetl Volcano Antonio Navalón One of the most important characteristics of what will happen tomorrow in the US election – regardless of how long it will take to find out who and how he won – is the dangerous walk on the expression of hatred that the presidential term of Donald Trump has meant. The …

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Popularity

Photo: Bernard Bodo on Istock Luis Rubio The popularity of the President of Mexico, while lower than before and of some of his predecessors, continues to be high. Many ask themselves how this is possible given the complex, uncertain, and remarkably deteriorated situation of the country and of the economy. The President has devoted himself …

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Fellow President

Photo: Kiyoshi Tanno on iStock Antonio Navalón Regardless of who will be elected to sit in the White House next week, from that day on, a political event of special relevance will reshape our closest environment, and that is that the United States is back. Since September 11, 2001, the United States had to pick …

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Narratives

Photo: Maria on Pexels Luis Rubio One of the characteristics that define the government is its insistence on the past: in stark contrast with its predecessors, which always promised a better future, the president appears to fervently believe that in the past is found the basis of all that follows. The dispute he has undertaken …

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Spending and Borrowing, a New Orthodoxy

Photo: Karolina Grabowska on Pexels José Manuel Suárez-Mier     It is incredible how the basic principles to maintain a healthy economy with a fiscal balance in the long term, with fortuitous passages of public spending deficit only in emergencies such as wars or economic depressions, have been exchanged for unlimited spending financed with public debt …

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To Let Loose The Fear

Photo: Korhan Erdol on Pexels Antonio Naval��n The first confinement, the first symbol of terror, the first massive use of that collective good called hope, brought curiosity and fear. In the same way, this confinement made us want to believe that someone somewhere knew what they were doing. But, starting with washing our hands like …

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The Nostalgic

Photo: Fernando Venzano on Unsplash Luis Rubio In memory of Dr. Guillermo Soberón Jorge Manrique wrote that “when we say that all time past was better, we condemn the future without knowing it.” The past was not always better, but it is easier to visualize because it stays frozen in time. The new dogma is that the …

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One more turn of the screw towards tyranny in Mexico

Photo: Sefa Ozel on iStock Manuel Suárez Mier Court approves President’s plan for a referendum on the prosecution of five predecessors The march of folly has continued in the administration of Mexico’s President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador(AMLO), who is a month and a half shy of his second anniversary in office. On this occasion, we focus …

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Autonomy of México’s Supreme Court is gone

Photo: Samantha Sophia on Unsplash Manuel Suárez Mier Court approves President’s plan for a referendum on the prosecution of five predecessors The separation of powers in Mexico suffered a powerful blow when the Supreme Court ruled in favor last week on the President’s plan to call a referendum to put his five predecessors on trial. …

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