Month: July 2013
July 31, 2013
Mexico: Still a Middle Class Society? – The Expert Take
WILSON CENTER – Mexico Institute – By Luis Rubio and Luis de la Calle While Mexico’s society is evolving fast, it surely has not become a fully transformed, democratic, wealthy Western...
July 28, 2013
War Against SMBs
Luis Rubio In his book From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas Friedman describes his experiences as a correspondent in the Lebanese capital at the middle of the civil war that characterized...
July 23, 2013
China, Mexico and…
FORBES – Luis Rubio The visit of President Xi Jinping to Mexico constitutes a milestone not only in the bilateral relationship of the two nations but also in the broadest...
July 21, 2013
The Cost of Sacred Cows
Luis Rubio How many jobs, and growth points, are the Mexican society –and its government- willing to lose because of the itch to preserve entelechies like Pemex and the CFE?...
July 14, 2013
Spend!
Luis Rubio The obsession with raising tax revenues reminds me of the film Brewster’s Millions, with Richard Pryor in the lead role. Brewster would receive an enormous inheritance but only...
July 09, 2013
Paradoxos eleitorais
INFOLATAM – Luis Rubio Eleições México Ao final, todos ganharam algo que permitirá que a vida política siga adiante. O que se sofreu foram as excessivas expectativas de alguns dos...
July 09, 2013
Electoral Paradoxes
INFOLATAM – Luis Rubio In the end, all won something that will let political life to carry on. What did suffer were the excessive expectations of some of the contenders,...
July 07, 2013
Scenarios
Luis Rubio “In a riot, as in a novel”, wrote Alexis de Tocqueville, “the most difficult thing is to invent the ending.” In this same book, Recollections, the astute French...