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Illegitimate…For Now

My very first post for the Harvard International Review was about internal elections for the presidency of Mexico’s PRD, the country’s left-most major political party. The post was written on March 10, 2008. The elections were held on March 16. And ...

From JASON LAKIN, Harvard International Review,  23 Nov 2008

Change We Suddenly Think We Need

The New York Times leads today with a story about competing camps in the Obama transition team scuffling over whether to go for big-bang change or pocket change. The usual questions are posed: will an Obama administration regret over-reaching early, ...

From JASON LAKIN, Harvard International Review,  9 Nov 2008

Dismal Science: Gloomy Economics in Mexico

The Mexican economy is highly reliant on two sources of income which have taken a hit in the last several months. The first income source, largely flowing directly to households, is remittance income from migrants working in the United States. The ...

From JASON LAKIN, Harvard International Review,  3 Nov 2008

Democracy Under Construction

In 2006, when supporters of Mexico’s Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), then candidate for the leftist PRD, took to the streets to protest alleged vote fraud during the presidential elections, many carried banners that said “Democracy Under ...

From JASON LAKIN, Harvard International Review,  27 Oct 2008

Past as Prologue: The PRI Rises

Sometimes, when authoritarian regimes fall, the former ruling party and leaders are chased out of the country or jailed. Sometimes, they recede into irrelevance. And sometimes, they quickly learn to play by the new rules of democracy, and stage a ...

From JASON LAKIN, Harvard International Review,  20 Oct 2008

State of the Union: Mexico’s Teachers Revolt

One of the biggest disappointments of Mexico’s democratization has been the failure to restructure the country’s public sector unions.  These unions were created by the old one-party regime in a context of authoritarianism in order to control the labor ...

From JASON LAKIN, Harvard International Review,  13 Oct 2008

Votes and Violence

Yesterday, voters in the poor Mexican state of Guerrero went to the polls to elect municipal presidents and local congresspeople.  About half the population voted in competitive, multi-party elections, and preliminary results suggest turnover in ...

From JASON LAKIN, Harvard International Review,  6 Oct 2008

The Coming Health Reform

Recently, the journal Health Affairs published a three-article online series looking at the health plans of the two presidential candidates. The discussion makes one thing clear: reform along the lines that our politicians currently envision it is ...

From JASON LAKIN, Harvard International Review,  1 Oct 2008

Redefining Fundamentals: state, market and language failures

Other than the fact that it wasn’t a deliberate policy, recent developments in the financial markets would seem to epitomize the phrase “shock and awe”: millions of ordinary people, and hundreds of pundits, mouths gaping, eyes wide, paralyzed by fear ...

From JASON LAKIN, Harvard International Review,  23 Sep 2008

Conspicuous Violence

Mexican daily El Universal reports several indicators of the endless spread of violence in Mexico today. First, private companies are now spending more than ever on private security. The number of business people using bodyguards has increased by 30 ...

From JASON LAKIN, Harvard International Review,  15 Sep 2008

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