The Arévalo Model vs. the Milei Model: Mortgaging Today or Building Tomorrow
Argentina and Guatemala are currently growing at similar rates. Both countries are moving at around 4%, a figure that, at first glance, suggests stability. But that coincidence is misleading. Growth, by itself, says nothing about the quality of an economy or its future. What matters is not how much growth there is, but where that […]
Migrant: A Path with an Insufficient Future
Marcos Antil, a Q’anjob’al child from Huehuetenango, nearly died at the age of five. Severely malnourished, he survived almost miraculously with homemade remedies due to the absence of doctors in his village of Nancultac. At fourteen, he began the journey alone to California, where his family was waiting for him. Along the way, he was […]
Is It Worth Copying Mexico? The Mirror We Should Look Into So We Don’t Lose Our Way
Do you remember Demetrio? The one from the Alka-Seltzer commercials of the 1980s, who would come home feeling sick after a night of excess. Well, when Demetrio wanted to buy his Corolla in the year 2000, he needed to save twenty-seven months of salary to pay for it. That same year, a Demetrio in Guadalajara […]