Tag: Institutions
What Future?
Some days ago, surfing TV channels in a hotel room, I found myself watching a discussion program on...
Institutions and Reform
The PAN is conditioning its legislative vote for the energy reform on the approval of an electoral reform....
Conflict and Leadership
A survey taken by the UNAM several years in a row in the 80s and 90s concluded that...
Why?
Sometimes it is impossible to figure whether to be proud or ashamed. Mexico has become dysfunctional without the...
The big “how”
Mexico is not the first country in history to suffer from political conflict, institutional structures with little propensity...
Flash 18
“Flash 18” was the code that a policeman once gave a friend of mine so that nobody would...
The Past
"Life, said Kierkegaard, can only be understood backward, but should be lived forward". But, in our case, how...
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...