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Wild-eyed theory of the week 15 Jul 2010 | 02:07 pm
This just had to be transcripted. From North Carolina Representative Sue Myrick: Here we are with a pourous border, not really paying attention to who’s coming over, what’s happening with Iran and Hu...
NAFTA and Mexican maize 12 Jul 2010 | 12:56 pm
The Nation has a long, wonky, wonderful article on Mexican maize cultivation, the effects of NAFTA, and the dangers of genetically-modified seeds. Author Peter Canby backs up his excellent writing wit...
Astroturf image of the week 12 Jul 2010 | 11:28 am
In his latest bid to sow conflict in order to direct attention away from the country’s real problems while eroding other non-Chávez power bases, Chávez is going after the Catholic Church. Allegedly, E...
Betancourt’s tin ear 10 Jul 2010 | 01:56 pm
What is wrong with Ingrid Betancourt? The most charitable explanation is that she is absolutely terrible at public relations. Her first act upon being rescued from six years in FARC captivity last yea...
Farinas ends hunger strike 9 Jul 2010 | 11:32 pm
Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas ended his hunger strike yesterday after 134 days. Farinas decided to end his strike after the Cuban government said it would release political prisoners rounded up in...
Bank tweeters arrested 9 Jul 2010 | 11:19 pm
In an interesting development in Venezuela, the CICPC (equivalent, I think, to the FBI) has made its first arrest of Twitter users: Two people who the agency says tweeted rumors with the intent to des...
Guinea pig bets on Uruguay 6 Jul 2010 | 11:50 pm
The Germans may have Paul the Psychic Octopus, but the Peruvians have Jimmy the Frightened Guinea Pig, whose terrified skittering apparently means Uruguay and Germany will face off in the World Cup fi...
US warships headed to Costa Rica 4 Jul 2010 | 11:29 am
Southward bound. Militaryless, democratic, non-conflict-having Costa Rica is the new front in the United States’ War on Inanimate Objects. The country’s national assembly has given the OK for a veri...
Money laundering (get it?) 1 Jul 2010 | 12:45 pm
If you read one story today, let it be Michael Smith’s very long and very interesting story in Bloomberg on how Mexican drug traffickers launder money through US banks like Wachovia (now owned by Well...
Uruguay fuels up 30 Jun 2010 | 01:31 pm
The Uruguayan selection, which has made it to the quarter finals of the World Cup, just received a shipment of half a ton of fine cuts of beef for the mother of all asados in preparation for a contest...
