Ricardo Pascoe Pierce The opposition must create a new platform providing political cohesion for its 2024 presidential candidacy. Its political-programmatic cohesion will make it easier to define the candidacy. Without resolving the organizational issue of how to build consensus on its programmatic proposal and how …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Before the plenary session of the Permanent Commission of Political Parties of Latin America (COPPPAL), Porfirio Muñoz Ledo directly accused the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, of criminal association with drug traffickers and of wanting to inherit this association with …
Luis Rubio The evidence of economic stagnation and social regression is overwhelming. Programs of social transfers to the president’s clienteles, although politically motivated, do not compensate for the impact of the pandemic nor for the lack of growth that Mexicans have experienced in these last …
Luis Rubio The problem with bets is that they are binary: all or nothing. When a government plays the betting game, as when one plays with fire, it can end up badly. For three years, the Mexican president has placed odds on a series of …
Luis Rubio The confusion is justified because a good part of the population lives in a world of fear or anger, both poor counsels but that, in the era of social media, are not only ubiquitous but dominant. Worse yet, while previously each of these …
Antonio Navalón The visit of U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar to the National Palace is something that, given our history – and above all the enormous impact of our bilateral relationship – is always of greater importance than the visit of any other diplomatic representative. The …
Is it possible that a country’s leader whose corruption level is one of the highest in the world dares to attend uninvited to the Security Council of the United Nations to lecture on how to fight corruption effectively? Well, mm…, yes. Corruption is over! he …
Luis Rubio In the movie Life of Brian, John Cleese plays Reg, the People’s Front of Judea leader. In one memorable scene, Reg finishes the haranguing of his troops with the question, “What have the Romans ever done for us?” One foot soldier in a freedom-fighting …
International Monetary Fund Swarnali A Hannan, Juan Pablo Cuesta Aguirre, and David Bartolini Poverty in Mexico was high before the COVID-19 pandemic and has been exacerbated by the pandemic, with significant variation across states. Education losses from the pandemic are likely to be large and worsen pre-existing …
