Monthly Archives: February 2024
The answers to Mexico’s problems may be simple, but they are not easy
Luis Rubio February 27, 2024 It is not difficult to name the problems confronting Mexico; the hard part is to identify suitable solutions and create consensus for their implementation. The problems are in good measure ageless and known to all, but their causes, consequences and potential solutions are always controversial. That’s why the […]
Priorities
Luis Rubio It is not difficult to elucidate the problems confronting Mexico; the hard part is to identify suitable solutions and to create consensus for their implementation. The problems are in good measure ageless and known to all, but their causes, consequences and potential solutions are always controversial. That’s why the old notion that the […]
Counterpoint
Counterpoint Luis Rubio The great magic of the old political system lay in the expectation that there would always be a new opportunity to reinvent the country with the change of governments. When a government was bad, the saying went that “there is no evil that lasts six years nor a people that can endure […]
Is Mexico’s government governing?
Luis Rubio February 13, 2024 Problems pile up when the capacity to respond diminishes. Even more so when those responsible appear utterly unwilling to respond. It comes as no surprise to anyone these days that problems such as insecurity, criminality, corruption, racketeering and electoral conflicts continue to mushroom while candidates for office are assassinated, […]
What’s Missing
Luis Rubio Paraphrasing Albert Camus in his speech on receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature, “all governments doubtless feel called upon to reform the world.” Few achieve it. As soon as their mandate ends, the reverberations begin: what remained inconclusive, what was not done, what was done wrong. Or worse. In the Mexican post-Revolutionary era, […]
Governance
Luis Rubio The problems pile up while the capacity to respond diminishes. If to this one were to add the utter unwillingness of the government to find solutions to the problems that appear (and to those that it unnecessarily generates), the explosive potential, above all in an electoral year, intensifies without limit. It comes as […]