Articles

June 01, 2025

Leadership

Luis Rubio All presidents begin their six-year term confident that they will transform the country (or, in this case, continue an alleged transformation) and lay the foundations for a great future. Sooner or later, almost all of them end up facing the sad reality that their mistakes outweighed their achievements and that their ambitions did […]

May 30, 2025

Three points on Mexico’s judicial vote

by Luis Rubio. Mexico’s judicial reform reaches its critical moment this coming Sunday. After the constitutional reform was approved last September, this Sunday citizens will vote for judges, magistrates, and justices of the Supreme Court of Justice. There is no precedent in the world (with the small exception of Bolivia) where a country has undertaken […]

May 25, 2025

Purity

Luis Rubio The problem with purity is that, as with so many other virtues, it is not easy to find it in the earthly kingdom. Morena, like all political parties and human organizations, is susceptible to the vicissitudes that present themselves in life, in the government, in politics and in the responsibility deriving from all […]

May 18, 2025

Context

Luis Rubio Private investment requires only one thing to materialize: certainty. What inhibits it is not left-wing or right-wing policies, but rather the absence of clear, transparent, predictable rules of the game that are enforced. The “Mexico Plan” is a great idea, but it rests on fragile anchors precisely because it fails to acknowledge the […]

May 11, 2025

Mexico-United States

Luis Rubio In New Zealand, the Māori people perform a ritual at the start of rugby games called the “haka,” which consists of a series of grimaces, gestures, and movements—from sticking out their tongues to jumping and making all kinds of threatening noises—with the purpose of intimidating their opponents. The ritual is appreciated as an […]

May 04, 2025

Two Processes

Luis Rubio “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light and the season of Darkness, the spring of hope and the winter of despair…” Thus begins A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens—a description […]

April 27, 2025

Storms

Luis Rubio A cartoon circulating on social media captures much of the current state of the world: in it, two presidents—Xi Jinping of China and Donald Trump—are reading books. Xi holds The Art of War by Sun Tzu, the classic military strategy book that predates Machiavelli and Clausewitz on such matters, while Trump is reading […]

April 20, 2025

Readings from the Current Moment

Luis Rubio In these moments of deep political-economic convulsion, it is impossible to see the world without reference to relevant historical moments, from Edward Gibbon’s “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” to the multiple stories of the beginning and end of the Cold War. Including among these are multiple calls of potential revival […]

April 13, 2025

Uncertainty

Luis Rubio The French economist Frédéric Bastiat differentiated between what took place in front of everyone, which he denominated “the seen” in contrast with the long-term consequences of these observations, the “unseen.” His point was that it was easy to make ideological decisions or decisions in a conceptual vacuum, but on ignoring the behavioral manner […]

April 06, 2025

Homemade

Luis Rubio The decisive moments of the becoming of a country are those during which effective leadership arises that confronts grave adversity in contusive fashion. Present-day Mexico confronts two adversities: the foreign one and the one that is homemade. Regarding the former, the President is doing the best possible. The latter derives from a long […]

March 30, 2025

Going Forward

Luis Rubio The context speaks for itself but is not consistent. The country is experiencing a species of schizophrenia: on the one hand, it would be difficult to conceive of a higher popularity level for the President. On the other hand, the perception of risk reaches a good part of the population. The former may […]

March 23, 2025

Lessons

Luis Rubio The China-United States conflict precedes Trump. After years of economic complementarity, for which someone coined the word “Chimerica” to describe a relationship that ties together the relative strengths of each of those nations -manufacture for the Asian giant, creativity and technological innovation for the superpower- these two began to distance themselves from each […]