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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Photo: Richard Lee on Unsplash All signs indicate that the 2020 US presidential election will be contentious, and the result most likely be bitterly contested, regardless of who wins. The degree of polarization experienced nine weeks before the election, continues to be exacerbated by tweets, public statements, and actions taking place in different parts …
Photo: Pixabay on Pexels Luis Rubio The democratization that the country has undergone over the last decades brought with it unanticipated consequences to deal with because the alternative is absolutely unacceptable. Whosoever wins an election feels free to advance their agenda not only disavowing the opposition, but, as occurs today, branding it as the enemy. …
Photo: JMV – Kaleidoscope In solidarity with Nexos Luis Rubio “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” stated Mark Twain. The same can be said about capitalism. Since 2008 innumerable politicians, scholars and opinion writers have assured us that capitalism was at death door; twelve years later, the pandemic has unleashed a new wave …
Antonio Navalón August is the month in which the great wars are cooked. World War I began after two shots fired in Sarajevo at the end of June, setting world history on fire, but revealing its true consequences and repercussions in August 1914. In …