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Month: November 2019

Advantages and Disadvantages

Luis Rubio According to a tweet that went viral, in the year 2192 the British Prime Minister flies to Brussels to ask for a new extension of the fatal date...

The Sixties

Luis Rubio “The reality of the myth is the unreality of the country”, wrote Monsiváis, a philosopher of everyday life.  The sixties qualify as mythological in Mexican politics, and more...

What to Make of AMLO After His Most Turbulent Weeks as President

Luis Rubio – Americas Quarterly – November 14, 2019 Mexico What to Make of AMLO After His Most Turbulent Weeks as President   How Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador has defied...

Back to Reality

Luis Rubio The cartoon depicts Herman Munster, the abnormal fictional personage of the T.V. series of a half century ago, seated kindly next to a little girl who tells him:...

Back to the Past Anew

Luis Rubio Just when it seemed that, with the AMLO government, many of the worst vices of the old Mexican political system would be eradicated by an administration that says...