Month: January 2015
January 30, 2015
book – A Mexican Utopia
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Mexican_Utopia_English.pdf
January 25, 2015
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....
January 19, 2015
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...
January 18, 2015
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...
January 11, 2015
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...
January 04, 2015
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...