Ricardo Pascoe Pierce National scenarios are highly unstable because political narratives change rapidly. One example is Ambassador Salazar’s change of narrative with President Lopez Obrador. He abruptly changed the diplomatic game between the two countries by commenting on the need to prioritize the fight against …
Apropos to the claims of the governments of the United States and Canada for violations of the USMCA, Mexico’s President uses the opportunity to put together a charade that allows him to sell himself, once again, as the hero saving the homeland from a gang …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce In times of a deeply divided society and also trapped in its ancestral beliefs between worship/fear of authority, surveys, and their usefulness are a difficult phenomenon to discern. They may suggest certain consistent opinions and behaviors and then report nonsense that bears …
Luis Rubio The key to having an atomic bomb is to never use it: it is the threat of its use that deters those possessing such power. The same occurs with the negotiations between governments in ambits such as investment and commerce. Although the risk …
Luis Rubio Those who play with fire go the saying, get burnt. That is how the Mexican government is presently operating regarding the issue of the trade dispute with the U.S. and Canada. Of course, the government seeks to defend its vision of the electricity …
I begin today’s letter with the economy section as this topic seems to dominate the headlines in the newspapers. In a technical definition, with two consecutive quarters of decline in U.S. GDP, the country is in a recession, but I’m afraid I have to disagree …
Today, we mourn the early passing one year ago of Manuel Suárez Mier, one of our founding contributors, and miss his weekly columns full of wit, acute criticism, and scholarly accuracy. His generosity included sharing his thoughts, rigorous economic and political analysis, and vast knowledge …
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Antonio Navalón The 21st century, the century of enlightenment, communication, culture, and the century in which we have been more informed – even if more ignorant than ever – offers new perspectives and ways of living from many points of view. The whole world is …
Antonio Navalón I suppose that, if I had been a citizen in Caligula’s or Nero’s Rome, over time, it would have been complicated to explain – as it is today – where the endurance capacity of the people ends. And as in the Roman era, …