Monthly Archives: October 2024

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 […]