Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Simplifying what is happening in Latin America in political, economic, and social terms leads to a failure to perceive long-term trends. Instead, analyses tend to start from immediate circumstances to extrapolate long-term trends. A first warning is that simplifying trends into “left” …
Luis Rubio “How can a country retain viability when its structures are focused on other purposes? It is worse when the objective is expressly preserving poverty, not development.” Plying the compass has not been the strong suit of most of Mexico’s governments, certainly not during …
Luis Rubio The world is living through an era of animosity, and Mexico is not the exception. The presidential strategy of dividing and polarizing has been utilized by leaders worldwide during these convulsive times, as illustrated by Trump, Narendra Modi in India, Bolsonaro in Brazil, …
Today, I begin my letter with an issue that has been worrying me for some time, which seems even more serious today. The new generation of young people known as Generation Z, the next generation of millennials, seems not to find its way and is …
Federico Reyes Heroles We know they lie to us. They know we know they are lying to us, and… they keep on lying. How far can it go? It is difficult to say. It appears in the world, and we can expel it. It has …
The Question: Today’s consensus in Mexico is that under a potential president, Sheinbaum*, the state of affairs in energy will remain as it has been under AMLO. Until today, in her statements and interviews, Sheinbaum has closely repeated the energy creed of AMLO, including saying …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce While Milei arrived as a political outsider, Sheinbaum is the product of secret political agreements. While Milei is considered far right, the current Sheinbaum represents far left. And yet, listening to them speak and proclaim, they are remarkably similar. One such important …
Luis Rubio According to Simon Kuznets, the world has four types of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina. Argentina has been defying gravity for decades, in fact, almost a century. With small moments of euphoria, its economy has gone from bad to worse for so …
Polarization around the world is increasingly present, in some cases even concerning. Politics in some countries are moved by protesting angry citizens fed up with the incompetence of their leaders. Extremists have a fertile ground for their causes, both for left and right. Unlikely candidates …
