Yearly Archives: 2013

Luis Rubio Mexican governments have been talking about reforms for decades. The issue has become a mantra: without reforms, they say, it is impossible to achieve high growth rates. Act Two, from the eighties on, a not inconsequential number of reforms have been proposed, the majority of which have had benign effects. In objective terms, […]

FORBES- Luis Rubio In the independent Mexico there have been two eras of high economic growth: that of the Porfiriato at the end of the XIX Century and the good years of stabilizing development, between the forties and the end of the sixties of the XX Century. The political characteristic of both moments was centralization of […]

Luis Rubio The country continues to be divided, not only in positions and preferences but also in the concept of how Mexicans find themselves as a society. For some Mexicans blocking a highway is something natural and acceptable: all’s fair in love and war. For others the blocking of a means of communication constitutes a […]

Luis Rubio The country continues to be divided, not only in positions and preferences but also in the concept of how Mexicans find themselves as a society. For some Mexicans blocking a highway is something natural and acceptable: all’s fair in love and war. For others the blocking of a means of communication constitutes a […]

Luis Rubio All the evaluations of the problems of the Mexican economy usually include: lack of credit, industrial plant competitiveness and the competition from (mostly Chinese) imports. Each of these symptoms possesses its own dynamic and structure of causality; what the three have in common is that, at heart, it’s the same problem. First off, […]

FORBES Luis Rubio One of the virtues that many scholars attribute to democracy is that nations adopting it tend to be less violent and much less inclined to enter into conflicts with others. According to this, democracy obliges governments and populations to resolve their problems through negotiation, which ordinarily debars open conflict. The theoretical logic […]

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR Opinion – By Luis Rubio / April 17, 2013  The Mexican government cannot afford the luxury of ignoring what is happening on immigration reform in the big and powerful North. And yet, it has taken a passive attitude. There are good historical reasons for this, but not a good one today. MEXICO CITY The Mexican […]

The Christian Science Monitor – Opinion- April  17, 2013.   Opinion The Mexican government cannot afford the luxury of ignoring what is happening on immigration reform in the big and powerful North. And yet, it has taken a passive attitude. There are good historical reasons for this, but not a good one today. By Luis Rubio / April […]

Luis Rubio “The errants are many,” said Sancho Panza. “Many,” replied Don Quixote, “but few they who deserve the name of knights.” Institutions are not born strong: they gain strength –or lose it- insomuch as they comply with their duty and win the respect of the citizenry. It’s not sufficient for institutions to just exist (the […]

Luis Rubio In one of his famous long-winded harangues, President Lincoln tossed out a rhetorical question that applies to our pseudo debate on energy matters. “How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four”, he said in answer to himself. “Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a […]