Yearly Archives: 2024

Luis Rubio The story goes that Isaac Newton developed the theory of gravity when an apple fell on his head, and he asked why it fell rather than flew. Although fictitious, the anecdote serves to think about the way Mexico could progress and prosper or retrogress even further. President Sheinbaum has set clear goals for […]

  WorldcrunchLuis RubioNovember 21, 2024 Will Mexico’s leftist government show pragmatism in dealing with the next U.S. administration or just keep bashing Donald Trump and watch the dismal effects on its economy, asks Mexican political commentator Luis Rubio. AMERICA ECONOMIA -Analysis- MEXICO CITY — U.S.-Mexico ties will always be complex: two nations that share a long border, […]

Luis Rubio There is no better guide to determine whether a leadership connects with the circumstances of the country than gauge whether her vision of the past and of the future matches the budgetary reality. There is nothing more concrete than the content of the governmental budget, in that therein are shaped the priorities, the […]

Luis Rubio The relationship with the United States will always be complex due to the enormous differences between the two nations that are so historically, culturally and economically in contrast to each other, but that has not hindered the neighborhood from having become a source of enormous opportunities. Now, once the Americans have elected a […]

Luis Rubio In her speech before Mexican and North American businesspeople the President delivered three messages: first, the free trade agreement between the two nations is key for Mexico and should be strengthened; second, foreign investments are fundamental for the development of Mexico; and third, the investments are safe and there will be clear rules. […]

Luis Rubio “The political left has never understood that, if you give the government enough power to create ‘social justice,’ you have given it enough power to create despotism. Millions of people around the world have paid with their lives for overlooking that truism.” This is spelled out by Thomas Sowell, one of the keenest […]

Luis Rubio In the golden era of the National Action Party (PAN), the nineties, the party had strong, focused leaderships and a strategic vision that permitted it to begin to build, step by step, the scaffolding that led to its eventually winning the presidency.  It was a party of citizens, financed by donations from the […]

Luis Rubio In July of 1914, one month before the outbreak of World War I, none of the protagonists in what would be a bloody conflagration had any idea of what was to come or, as Christopher Clark writes, they stumbled along like sleepwalkers toward the precipice. The present moment in Mexico entertains a great […]

Luis Rubio “Democracy, writes the scholar Larry Diamond, is a system of government of the majority, limited by counterweights and institutional balances.” This classic definition is clearly not among the new government’s priorities. A speech, however encouraging, does not a summer make, but it can constitute the first step in the process of reconstruction that […]

 Luis Rubio The end of the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador opens a new stage for the Mexican political system. In the last half-century, Mexico went from a highly structured system around a political party that was also a complex system of participation and control to a shallow democracy with weak institutions that have […]