Antonio Navalón Today, we live in a world that is not only convulsed and confused but also highly ideologized. In part, this is because the ideological struggle allows and endures everything. For example, if you want to kill children and civilians and destroy the cultural …
Luis Rubio The agricultural worker at the end of the XVIII century was suddenly displaced by the appearance of the steam engine that substituted for, says Gertrude Himmelfarb,* an average of 50 employees in one fell swoop. It took between twenty and thirty years before …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce A dense cloud of bitterness and the premonition of failure floats over Mexico’s official political landscape, headed by the President of the Republic. “I can’t take it anymore”, said Lopez Obrador recently, his face furrowed by his government’s failure and the debacle …
Luis Rubio In 2014, when Russia invaded and took control of the Crimean Peninsula, President Obama’s reaction was that is “so 19th century” is no longer done in the 21st. Everything indicates that this memorandum did not reach the Kremlin. The invasion of Ukraine, of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce President López Obrador evaluates the convenience of Mexico’s exiting from the USMCA to consolidate his sovereignty dream over the energy sector and exclude the world from the “treasure”. He thinks it will be his step into history and will allow him to …
“In politics, civilities are substance” Attributed to Jesús Reyes Heroles On June 8 of last year, we published a note titled “AMLO’s Mexico Downgraded.” The subtitle was “The insignificance of the Mexican President has already infected the country.” It was based on the State visit …
The three nations that form the North American Trade Agreement (Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico) are compared with two European nations: Germany and Denmark. The purpose is to identify what factors have a more significant incidence on their level of development. Since …
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 Brexit is not the sole challenge that the European Union (EU) faces. Although the United Kingdom was always an awkward partner, there are other nations that engender permanent tensions. Some obvious cases include those of regions seeking autonomy, such as Catalonia, but in …
The countries’ leaders that form the CUSMA, USMCA, T-MEC will meet for the first time. Three countries agreed to lift trade barriers promoting a regional economic integration. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into force on January 1, 1994. Canada, Mexico, and the …