Month: May 2015
May 31, 2015
Solutions
Luis Rubio The achievement of stability and high growth rates after the revolutionary era was nearly miraculous and contrasted with the interminable South American dictatorships. Everything suggested that Mexico had...
May 26, 2015
Fighting the Reality
FORBES – MAYO 2015 It would seem to be patently obvious that in politics there’s no worse evil than fighting reality, but that’s precisely what the government has been doing...
May 17, 2015
To Govern
Luis Rubio The complexity of Mexico’s political life, the violence, and the corruption, but above all the absence of a real debate on domestic problems, has generated a thousand and...
May 10, 2015
Intrepid Autonomy
Luis Rubio How are the high-speed train to Querétaro and the brand new National Electoral Institute (INE) alike? Unfortunately, the similarity is less altruistic than is desirable. Some months ago,...
May 03, 2015
Governability: What For?
Luis Rubio During his exile in Paris, Porfirio Díaz stated that “governing Mexicans is more difficult than herding turkeys while riding on horseback”. He must have known something about that...