Working with complex subject matter, dealing with partners and collaborators, sorting intellectual property issues and negotiating with powerful publishing houses, not to mention the occasional difficult scientist, is challenging.
Trump has shown he does not understand tact or nuance, which are vital to negotiating with powerful governments and international organizations.
We may not be able to match opponents who can write seven-figure checks dollar for dollar, but by banding together, articulating collective demands, and negotiating with powerful interests (whether corporate CEOs or elected leaders) from a place of shared strength, we can build the leverage to win changes that benefit our families and communities.
Free trade as negotiated by powerful developed countries has a habit of being lopsided like this, and not quite as free as it claims.
Cuarón's questions include a demand for outlining when exactly the government's promises of falling energy prices will be reflected in household bills, as well as details of measures to protect the environment from the potential impacts of a production boom rooted in concessions negotiated by powerful multinational companies.
Abandoned by the government, many families in the rural north fear that if mining continues they may be left on their own to negotiate with powerful multinational companies.
He has qualified any notion of politically investing in the Clinton campaign as an agent of change as "insanity" and has said that, unlike Obama, he would "never, ever" sit down to negotiate with powerful special interests like the health care lobby.
But it will take a strong progressive bulwark in the Senate to keep their Leaders there from negotiating away this powerful strategic response.
In multilateral deals, poor countries can piggyback on powerful countries' negotiating clout; in bilateral deals, they're on their own.
"You can't negotiate with someone whose negotiating weapon is as powerful and hard to argue with as a pistol," said their leader, Mariano Rajoy.
