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It ain’t over yet
“The most trustworthy and controlled voting system in Latin America” Cesár Gaveria, former Costa Rican President and head of the OAS election monitor President Gaveria doesn’t speak well of Latin...
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Susto de guerra?
Ironically, since I live on calle 16 de Septiembre, mine is the only house flying the bandera nacional today (and a modest one — tangled in phone wires — it is). Of course, like migrants anywhere,...
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Blame your mom?
Elba Esther Gordillo — known variously as “Señora Hoffa” (after the late Jimmy) or the “Bride of Chucky” (after the monster movie character she uncannily resembles) — blames working mothers for the...
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General discontent with Plan Merida
In anticipation of the up-coming state visit of Barack Obama, where the U.S. President — without much to show in the way of progress on controlling the illegal arms trade from his country — is expected...
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Here lies Felipe Calderón…
The chickens are still coming to roost on the Calderón Administration’s attempts to create legitimacy though acquiescing in the U.S. demands that Mexico “do something” about the U.S. appetite for...
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Mexico 2006, Honduras 2013
In The Guardian this morning: “Ruling party candidate in lead to become Honduras’s next president”: With just over half the ballots tallied by late on Sunday, Juan Orlando Hernandez of the governing...
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Chapo in Honduras?
Honduran Deputy Defense Minister Carlos Roberto Funes warnes that Joaquín Guzman Loera, alias “El Chapo,” may be in Honduras, who warns that his country is the most vulnerable nation in Central...
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Zapatismo without tears
Sombrero tip to Barry Carr (LaTrobe University [Melbourne] and Colegio de Mexico) for this critique of the Zapatista movement, found in a review of a French collection of essays on the Zapatistas...
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Be careful what you ask for… Zenli Ye Gon
If he names names… Zenli Ye Gon… whose explanation for the 205.6 million U.S. dollars, 200,000 Euros and 157,500 Pesos found sitting around his house back in March of 2007 has always been he was just...
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See Spot. See spot finally run on TV.
AMLO (Andres Manuel López Obrador), called by the right “the most dangerous man in Mexico” (that was his old student ID photo in my last post) had finally caught a break. His 2006 campaign for the...
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They eat their own
If there is one thing you learn from watching Mexican politics, it’s that conspiracy theories sometimes make sense. I can’t vouch for this: I’m not familiar with the website I found it on, and it...
View ArticleElba Esther … free at last
Elba Esther Gordillo … her alleged embezzlement somewhere in the neighborhood of 2 billion pesos (2,000,000,000) from the teachers’ union might have been overlooked, despite her flamboyant lifestyle...
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