Month: December 2013
December 29, 2013
My Readings 2013
Luis Rubio “One is not who he is because of what he writes, but because of what he has read.” Jorge Luis Borges I recently had access to a marvelous...
December 22, 2013
China in Lee’s eyes
Luis Rubio Lee Kuan Yew, the universal statesman who made possible the transformation of a filthy harbor, saturated with corruption and all sorts of vices, into one of the most...
December 22, 2013
China in Lee’s eyes
Luis Rubio Lee Kuan Yew, the universal statesman who made possible the transformation of a filthy harbor, saturated with corruption and all sorts of vices, into one of the most...
December 15, 2013
Keep Your Eye On the Ball
Luis Rubio “The old is dying and the new cannot be born: in the interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms will appear”. Thus wrote Antonio Gramsci in his Prison Notebooks....
December 08, 2013
Value Chains
Luis Rubio “Each tells the tale as it went for him at the fair” says a popular old refrain. The same is true for corruption, access to justice and the...
December 08, 2013
Value Chains
Luis Rubio “Each tells the tale as it went for him at the fair” says a popular old refrain. The same is true for corruption, access to justice and the...
December 05, 2013
Keep Your Eye On the Ball
Luis Rubio “The old is dying and the new cannot be born: in the interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms will appear”. Thus wrote Antonio Gramsci in his Prison...
December 01, 2013
Changing the Model
NEXOS – Luis Rubio Over the last four decades, Mexicans had it all: governments that had no idea what they were doing and that ended up causing profound economic and...
December 01, 2013
First Year
Luis Rubio Once when the Duke of Richelieu (1766‒1822), the French statesman, was planning a military campaign, an officer placed a finger on a map, saying: “We shall cross the...