The City of Juarez
The U.S. border has always been a reason for substantial concern with respect to the rulers of the...
Shooting oneself in the foot
"Politics according to John Kenneth Galbraith, is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." The...
Risks and Fallacies
Mexican politicians are an odd combination of conservatism and temerity. They have abstained from the actions and responses...
Revolutions
"The future, environmental activist Dana Meadows once said, is a choice, not a destiny." This year, commemorating the...
Regime Change
Mark Twain said that "the first part of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance;...
Progress…
In his 1990 Nobel Lecture, Octavio Paz affirmed that “History’s sun is the future and Progress is the...
Priorities
In a visit to Mexico at the end of the eighties, the head of a delegation of businesspeople...
Presidents
All presidents believe themselves to be predestined to change the future and to leave a legacy of historic...
Power vs. Process
The economic crisis of the last few years could hardly have arrived at a more ominous time for...
Power Reform
Nehru, the great Indian statesman, said that “the moment has arrived, something that rarely takes place in history,...