Month: December 2012
December 30, 2012
My 2012 Readings
According to an old saying, one is what one reads. Reading is one of my passions and occupations: through books, articles, and assays I learn from others, I reflect on...
December 23, 2012
Excesses
The avatars of the bill on labor matters are suggestive of everything in which Mexico has advanced but also of the enormous distance it has yet to cover. The very...
December 16, 2012
Rules and Raptors
What comes first, adequate laws for a society to function or a citizenry that complies with them? The question is not an idle one.Successful countries have one thing in common: ...
December 09, 2012
Abuse of the Moncloa Pact
The great absence in Mexican politics is an agreement on the how. Despite this, everyone is focused on the what. After years of polarization, the Pact signed last week entertains...
December 02, 2012
Where To Now?
In Arthur Koestler’s novel Darkness at Noon, Ivanov, thefaithful and long-sufferingbureaucrat, interrogatesRubachov, anoldrevolutionary leader, arrested for doubting the course his country had taken after the end of the Revolution. Emboldened,...