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Month: January 2015

book – A Mexican Utopia

    http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Mexican_Utopia_English.pdf    

Government and Democracy

Luis Rubio There are two ways to focus on the challenges facing Mexico at present. The first is to assume that the Rule of Law reigns for everybody without distinction....

The Wall and Poverty

FORBES – January, 2015 Luis Rubio It is easy to forget what the Berlin Wall was, its reality and significance, above all because in Mexico’s ambiance it often seems that...

Strong States, Weak States

Luis Rubio The world has undergone one convulsion after another during these last years. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the old mechanisms that (nearly) coerced stability disappeared, which...

Getting Out of the Hole

Luis Rubio Mexico’s problems didn’t start in Iguala nor do they dwell in what the government does or doesn’t do. In any case, paraphrasing an Arab snippet of wisdom, the...

Institutions and Democracy

Luis Rubio We Mexicans have confused two very distinct processes that, while at some moment and circumstance could be complementary, can also be contradictory. For it to work, democracy requires...