Month: June 2019
June 30, 2019
Preferences and Possibilities
Luis Rubio In her autobiography, African-American anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston writes that “it is no longer profitable, with few exceptions, to ask people what they think, for you will be...
June 23, 2019
Argentina in the Horizon?
Luis Rubio Argentina began the twentieth century with the highest GDP per capita in Latin America, very similar to that of the United States at that time; a century later,...
June 16, 2019
No compass
Luis Rubio In one of the final episodes of The Simpsons, the soporific and befuddled octogenarian Abe is recruited to cross the picket line and break a strike at a...
June 09, 2019
Foreign Policy is Domestic Policy
Luis Rubio The letter sent by President López Obrador to President Trump can have many readings, but one great certainty: it is a document designed from and for domestic political...
June 02, 2019
Capacity of Governing
Luis Rubio There is no more pressing problem in Mexico than the stalemate between the capacities of the government (federal, state and municipal) and the requirements imposed upon on it...