Month: August 2025
August 24, 2025
The Chinese Meander
Luis Rubio Over the last half century, Mexico has experienced versions of one-party hegemony, electoral competition, authoritarianism, “perfect” dictatorship, incipient democracy, and back again to a growing quasi-hegemonic thrust. In...
August 22, 2025
Mexico and TrumpMexico’s Foreign PolicyMexico’s Politics
by Luis Rubio 19 Aug by Luis Rubio, political analyst and chairman of México Evalúa. For months, talk has been circulating about a possible US military intervention in Mexico. The idea...
August 17, 2025
Hegemonies
Luis Rubio Is Morena the “new” PRI? The question is obvious and frequently asked. The way in which Morena has advanced its political project—now in its second administration—makes clear its...
August 15, 2025
The Morena Pact
Mexico’s Democracy, Mexico’s Politics, Mexico’s Economy15/08/2025by Luis Rubio, political analyst and chairman of México Evalúa. In 1989, a series of protests and disturbances in China culminated in the massacre at Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s...
August 10, 2025
Self-Imposed Limits
Luis Rubio Macondo, the fictional town invented by Gabriel García Márquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude, represents a place where myth and reality intertwine to explain the human capacity for...
August 03, 2025
Where To?
Luis Rubio “What does it mean to live in a permanent state of exception?” asks Giorgio Agamben, a philosopher who has studied this modern tendency. His answer should give us...