The Perverse Incentives of Public-Private Partnerships
Publicly subsidized, private profitable. The anthem of the upper-tier.
Analysis
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Neither Corn Nor Country
The Fourth Transformation promised food self-sufficiency for Mexico and to rescue agriculture, but heavily-subsidized US imports have never been higher, while farmers go bankrupt and the crisis reaches intolerable levels.
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A Circus at Mexico’s Education Secretariat
The dispute is not a fight for the defense of public education, but a brawl between rival power groups for control and the collection of political rents from a pedagogical project that has not yet been born.
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A Bigger Plan
López Obrador’s fear of Mexico’s abrupt return to the right still applies today. The Brazilian case is instructive.
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Mexico Needs a Macroeconomic Policy for Growth, not the Finance Sector
While the Mexican government attempts to curry favour to receive preferential treatment in USMCA negotiations, it ignores the fact that the Trump administration violates all established international norms and makes decisions only based on US interests.
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Solidarity with The People of Cuba
Decisions about Cuba, its present and its future, belong exclusively to its people, writes Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas; while we must firmly condemn the US government’s unilateral coercive measures against that sister nation.
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A Mexican Conspiracy Against the US?
An interview with Morena’s Secretary for Mexicans Living Abroad, Alejandro Robles, on Peter Schweizer’s dangerous and deluded new conspiracy theory.
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When Governing Becomes Managing
Silence can be tactically useful, but it doesn’t resolve underlying tensions. It only postpones them. And when those in power postpone strategic decisions for too long, they end up trapped in their own caution.
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Predation & Neo-latifundismo
The government must be very cautious, as the neoliberal regime handed out mining concessions to its predatory cronies like candy, more than half of the national territory ended up in their hands in one way or another.
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New Challenges for the China-Mexico Trade Relationship in 2026
The lack of high-level dialogue between China and Mexico has eroded the possibility of effective coordination in multiple bilateral areas, particularly in foreign trade.
