Articles

June 29, 2025

Change of Direction

Luis Rubio “To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” wrote George Orwell. He wasn’t talking about everyday life, but about the world of politics, where, he continued, “it is quite easy for the part to be perceived as greater than the whole, or for two objects to be in […]

June 22, 2025

Disorder

Luis Rubio Disruption and disorder are distinct phenomena that at times combine and reinforce each other. Disorder, according to the dictionary, is often a sustained abnormal state of functioning. Disruption, on the other hand, can be intentional, provoked to advance processes of change and transformation. In both cases, the impact on the population is always […]

June 16, 2025

Claudia Sheinbaum faces adversity

Mexico’s Politics – 15 JunTHE MEXICO BRIEF by Luis Rubio. Editor’s note: Mr. Rubio as a political analyst and chairman of México Evalua. From the moment she was nominated as Morena’s presidential candidate, speculation arose regarding her capacity and willingness to break with her predecessor, as has been the tradition in Mexican politics. Although speculation […]

June 15, 2025

Cold Blood

Luis Rubio The only thing that doesn’t seem to be in short supply in the world these days—especially in public debate—is speculation about what Trump is trying to achieve with his tariffs, rhetoric, and the changes he’s making to both the structure of his government and the architecture of the global order. The whirlwind of […]

June 08, 2025

Shot in the Foot

Luis Rubio In the bleak early days of 1995, when the Mexican economy was shaken by uncertainty following a sharp devaluation and a crisis triggered by a government-issued debt instrument denominated in dollars, the world’s financial and political leaders debated what had gone wrong in Mexico. Just a few months earlier, Mexico had achieved a […]

June 01, 2025

Leadership

Luis Rubio All presidents begin their six-year term confident that they will transform the country (or, in this case, continue an alleged transformation) and lay the foundations for a great future. Sooner or later, almost all of them end up facing the sad reality that their mistakes outweighed their achievements and that their ambitions did […]

May 30, 2025

Three points on Mexico’s judicial vote

by Luis Rubio. Mexico’s judicial reform reaches its critical moment this coming Sunday. After the constitutional reform was approved last September, this Sunday citizens will vote for judges, magistrates, and justices of the Supreme Court of Justice. There is no precedent in the world (with the small exception of Bolivia) where a country has undertaken […]

May 25, 2025

Purity

Luis Rubio The problem with purity is that, as with so many other virtues, it is not easy to find it in the earthly kingdom. Morena, like all political parties and human organizations, is susceptible to the vicissitudes that present themselves in life, in the government, in politics and in the responsibility deriving from all […]

May 18, 2025

Context

Luis Rubio Private investment requires only one thing to materialize: certainty. What inhibits it is not left-wing or right-wing policies, but rather the absence of clear, transparent, predictable rules of the game that are enforced. The “Mexico Plan” is a great idea, but it rests on fragile anchors precisely because it fails to acknowledge the […]

May 11, 2025

Mexico-United States

Luis Rubio In New Zealand, the Māori people perform a ritual at the start of rugby games called the “haka,” which consists of a series of grimaces, gestures, and movements—from sticking out their tongues to jumping and making all kinds of threatening noises—with the purpose of intimidating their opponents. The ritual is appreciated as an […]

May 04, 2025

Two Processes

Luis Rubio “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light and the season of Darkness, the spring of hope and the winter of despair…” Thus begins A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens—a description […]

April 27, 2025

Storms

Luis Rubio A cartoon circulating on social media captures much of the current state of the world: in it, two presidents—Xi Jinping of China and Donald Trump—are reading books. Xi holds The Art of War by Sun Tzu, the classic military strategy book that predates Machiavelli and Clausewitz on such matters, while Trump is reading […]