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Confusions
Luis Rubio The neighborhood is not only complicated but also extraordinarily contrasting. Although the border region between Mexico and the United States constitutes an exceptional space, distant from Mexico City as well as from Washington, the reality is that it is the most critical flash point in view of the year 2024, a moment at […]
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Mexico Is Killing Its Golden Goose
Americas Quarterly by Luis Rubio March 22.2023 The president’s vision for the country is erasing years of institution-building efforts—and endangering its economic and political stability, says the chairman of Mexico Evalúa. MEXICO CITY — Mexicans seem to enjoy economic and political crossroads; the country is often faced with one because it seldom addresses its underlying challenges. […]
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Paradoxes
Luis Rubio One of the great paradoxes that military dictatorships exhibit, reflects Tom Stevenson,* lies in that they in the last analysis make their own troops less effective because of their imperious need for protecting themselves from a blow that would wind up in their removal. The paradoxes of power are always obtuse because their […]
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Ambivalences
Luis Rubio The verdict in the trial of García Luna directly affects the individual accused but, along the way, the questioning exposed the entire Mexican political system and exhibited a world of ambivalences concerning justice, drugs, corruption and the Mexico–United States relationship. It was not Mexico, but instead the political establishment that sat on the […]
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Power and Wealth
Luis Rubio The great success of capitalism has been the generation of wealth and prosperity for billions of global inhabitants and at the heart of that system of economic organization lies a crucial concept: the separation of political power from wealth. Although capitalism and democracy, with all their tensions, advanced by means of distinct conduits […]
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AQ Podcast: Luis Rubio on Why Mexico’s AMLO Is More Vulnerable Than You Think
https://www.americasquarterly.org/article/aq-podcast-luis-rubio-on-why-mexicos-amlo-is-more-vulnerable-than-you-think/ Podcast AQ Podcast: Luis Rubio on Why Mexico’s AMLO Is More Vulnerable Than You Think MARCH 1, 2023 Despite AMLO’s popularity, judicial and political challenges may hamper his electoral plans for 2024, argues a leading analyst. More than 100,000 Mexicans protested last weekend against President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s proposed changes to the […]
As an observer, analyst, and columnist, it has been my purpose to share my views and perspectives about the key issues of our time and for the evolution of the world and of Mexico in particular.
I do not subscribe to any dogmas or labels of left and right; I fervently believe in the possibility and need to maintain a balance, which does not imply neutrality. Rather it is the constant and intentional search for different perspectives and explanations that allows me to adopt and defend clear and opinionated postures.
I was raised within a liberal milieu, my transit through the university years taught me about the political literature of the Left. Later, I studied the American “institutionalist” political currents and learned the essential economic concepts.
I never cease to read and listen. I change my point of view when I learn new things, get to know other factors or when the reality changes. This process results in analyses and proposals through which I attempt to contribute to the development of an open, liberal and inclusive society with the opportunities, but also the limitations, that come together with economic reality.
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