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Month: December 2017

Old Year, New Year

Luis Rubio The end of each year brings nostalgia for what’s gone, expectation for what’s coming, fear of the unknown and optimism for the opportunities that the New Year might...

Corruption Is Mexico’s Original Sin

Luis Rubio   ARGUMENT Corruption Is Mexico’s Original Sin Personal enrichment has always been central to Mexico’s political system — and only a revolution can change that. BY LUIS RUBIO  | DECEMBER...

My Readings

Luis Rubio “I always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library.” Jorge Luis Borges     In such a changing and convulsive world, it is of the essence...

Daily Wrongs

Luis Rubio I do not know, dear reader, whether things in our daily lives seem normal to you that are not normal: the problems that are not solved, the corners...

On the Cheap

Luis Rubio Spain embarked upon the conformation of an integral strategy of tourism development in the cultural ambit when it identified, as an opportunity for attracting that type of visitor,...

What to Do About the South?

Luis Rubio The poverty of the southern part of the country is an open sore and intolerable and even more so when the widening gap characterizing the Two Mexicos is...