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).
elections
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Saint Augustine said that time is present in three facets: the present, as we experience it; the past,...

security
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The war on narcotrafficking has paralyzed the country. The Colombian experience demonstrates that the key to defeating the...

elections
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According to Ambrose Bierce, a famous satirical writer of the nineteenth century, alliances are "the union of two...

elections
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Earl Long, the three nonconsecutive-term populist governor and self-styled "last of the red hot poppas" of U.S. politics,...

usa
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One of my teachers, Roy Macridis, used to say that public policy, in particular that relative to foreign...

reforms
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“The devil is in the details” counsels an old refrain. In the case of the political reforms that...

security
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“Transition presupposes –says Joaquín Villalobos- dismounting repressive apparatuses, reconstructing institutions, learning to employ the laws, and protecting the...

security
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“In democratization theories” -writes Joaquín Villalobos- “it is said that authoritarianism is made up of uncertain processes with...

elections
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With a mere look at recent electoral results in Mexico, anyone would think that the PRI –or a...

institutions
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When Plutarco Elías-Calles proposed the need to "cease being a country of political bosses or caudillos so as...