Yearly Archives: 2021

 Luis Rubio Today’s the day, the day of the citizenry. The day on which, with their vote, the citizens will individually express their feel for the government and their expectation for the future. There have been few times that a midterm election has been so transcendental, and that is because the President has defined the […]

  WILSON CENTER, Mexico Institute 6/1/2021   By Luis Rubio An old aphorism holds that nostalgia is not what it used to be. However, it constitutes a heavy burden that never quite disappears. Two sources of nostalgia cloud Tyrians and Trojans in current Mexican politics. AMLO leads with his nostalgia for the 70s, the idyllic moment in his […]

Luis Rubio Next Sunday will be a key day for the future of Mexico. It is the day on which the electorate will decide whether it will vote for the existence of counterweights to power or whether it will ratify the course that, step by step, the president has been leading Mexico toward the total […]

Luis Rubio An old aphorism holds that nostalgia is not what it used to be. However, it constitutes a heavy burden that never quite disappears. There are two sources of nostalgia that cloud Spartans and Trojans in current Mexican politics. The president leads with his nostalgia for the seventies, the idyllic moment in his memory […]

Luis Rubio Ph.D. Chairman, Mexico Evalua Woodrow Wilson Center Global Fellow The US-China-Mexico Triangle: a strategic assessment  Testimony Before the U.S.-China Commission Economic and Security Review Commission May 20, 2021 After four decades of extraordinary transformation, no one can doubt the enormous ambitions of China as a world power. This transformation was dramatically aided and […]

Luis Rubio The old Soviet Union maintained cohesiveness due to the ideological monopoly that the Communist Party exercised during an era in which access to information was totally controlled by the government. In fact, says David Satter,* “the imaginary world of Marxist–Leninist ideology never really went away because the issue was never its validity but […]

Mexico Today –  May 11, 2021 Luis Rubio   It’s puzzling how countless countries, particularly in Asia, reconcile tremendous disorder with extraordinary economic performance. Anyone who has observed the chaotic street traffic in Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, or India, would never imagine that these are the countries posting the highest growth rates in recent decades. Even more […]

  Mexico Today –  May 05, 2021 Luis Rubio   In an old Prussian tale, famous in the legal world, a king decides to expropriate a miller’s estate because it obstructs the view from his palace. The miller goes to the higher court in Berlin, who agrees with him and forces the king to pay him […]

Mexico Institute 4/28/2021 By  Luis Rubio As the midterm elections draw closer, Mexico’s broken politics are beginning to take their toll. The independent electoral authority (INE), one of the country’s greatest institutional achievements after decades of fraudulent elections, is under fire by the AMLO and his party, which are also undermining the Supreme Court’s authority. The few remaining […]

 Mexico Today –  April  29 , 2021 Luis Rubio The Supreme Court stands alone among the three branches of government in Mexico to have undergone an in-depth reform in 1994 to match the political reality of the 21st century. This has conferred the Court a special character that its members have not fully embraced, however. Although […]