Luis Rubio

Luis Rubio

He is a contributing editor of Reforma and his analyses and opinions often appear in major newspapers and journals in Mexico, the US and Europe (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, National Public Radio).
oped
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Something peculiar took place vis-à-vis the Bicentennial celebration: the government organized it, but the population appropriated it. The...

oped
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Referring to the end of the Soviet Union, Solzhenitsyn wrote that "the revolution is an amalgam of former...

economy
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Seneca, the Roman philosopher, had long since anticipated it: "If one does not know to which port one...

oped
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"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” reads Dante’s inscription above the gates of hell. Many Mexicans must...

oped
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Democracy, according to Schumpeter, is a “method for making decisions”. This definition is so broad and pragmatic that...

elections
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In one of his famous observations, Einstein affirmed that "the unleashed power of the atom has changed everything...

economy
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Mexico had always been a country of entrepreneurs. From Aztec tianguis to marketplaces in the middle of the...

usa
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An old tale cautions that one should be careful of what one wishes for, because it may come...

reforms
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One of the things that impresses me most of the legislative and political processes in all societies is...

reforms
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Gadfly and great satirical actor Groucho Marx once observed that “Politics is the art of looking for trouble,...