Monthly Archives: May 2021
What’s Important
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 […]
No Way Back
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 […]
Testimony Before the U.S.-China Commission Economic and Security Review Commission
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 […]
Tragedy and Farse
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 […]
Order and chaos, lessons for Mexico
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: There Are Still Judges!
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 […]