The United States remains the world’s indispensable power. Good, says the former foreign minister of Mexico The Economist Aug 31st 2021 BY JORGE CASTAÑEDA This By-invitation commentary is part of a series by global thinkers on the future of American power—examining the forces shaping the country’s global standing. Read more here. THE ALARM about American “declinism”… Seguir leyendo Jorge Castañeda on why America’s civilisation will prevail
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The neglected art of biography
UTOBIOGRAPHY is “almost unknown” in Mexico, writes Jorge Castañeda, in his recently published contribution to the genre, “Amarres Perros” (the title is an untranslatable play on the name of a film that could be rendered as “Shaggy Entanglements”). The sam
After president’s first year, Mexico still a mess by many measures
To President Enrique Peña Nieto’s supporters, his first year in office has been a time of bold promises kept as he pursues an ambitious agenda of reforms designed, in the long term, to bring peace and economic growth to Mexico.
Soul-searching amid the debris
The Mexican soul holds the answer to many of the country’s problems, writes Jorge Castañeda, a former foreign minister who now lectures at New York University…
A Paralyzed Democracy
JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA.- Mexico’s 2012 presidential election gets underway, a national conversation has finally begun on the country’s future. Thanks in part to the recently published book A Future for Mexico, which I coauthored with Héctor Aguilar Camín…
Between Hanoi And Havana
At a recent meeting in Hanoi of a new global outfit called the Emerging Markets Forum, a group that is positioning itself as an emerging-economy, though business-oriented, alternative to Davos, participants were exposed to a fascinating perspective on the