Luis Maizel’s Monthly Letter: Changes in the global balance of power. How does it affect us?

Photo: peterscreiber.media on iStock Luis Maizel August will be a month remembered for many years for the controversial end of US participation in Afghanistan, the rebound in COVID infections, the manifest assertion of government power in China, and the beginning of the changes in the AMLO government. The United States withdrew its soldiers from Afghanistan …

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Who is in Charge in Mexico?

        An enraged mob attacks a military garrison; the soldiers surrender and hand over their weapons and the military installation to the aggressors. In another part of the country, an army platoon is attacked by residents who do not accept their presence in that area; …

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Rule of Law Mexico 2020-2021

On September 24, 2012, the High-level Meeting of the 67th Session of the General Assembly on the Rule ofLaw at the National and International Levels was held at the United Nations (UN). Its Member States and a large,high-level representation of civil society organizations reached a …

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Votes and Government

Image: Ljupco on iStock Luis Rubio The Mexican citizenry has been disillusioned for many years with politics. First, it was supposed that the reforms would restore the capacity of economic growth and, afterward, that democracy would reduce corruption and bring the politicians –these latter the alleged representatives of the people- closer to the voters. Neither …

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Annual Threat Assessment 2021 of the US Intelligence Community

Office of the Director of National Intelligence This annual report of worldwide threats to the national security of the United States responds toSection 617 of the FY21 Intelligence Authorization Act (P.L. 116-260). This report reflects thecollective insights of the Intelligence Community (IC), which is committed every day to providingthe nuanced, independent, and unvarnished intelligence that …

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Mexico’s President Growing Polarization

Photo: CUARTOSCURO on am.com.mx Angry for his negative results, he rushes laws and regulations unfriendly to domestic and foreign private investment. The government that claims to be in a change of regime and calls itself the Fourth Transformation is drowning amid a heap of negative results, a chaos that will have a long-lasting devastating effect …

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