Ultimos Posts 1. 25/11/2009 11:42 - You boot it, we?ll loot it Making the news rounds today is the American Chamber of Commerce’s (a Mexican business organization for U.S. owned or managed companies) study claiming close to 90 % of Mexicans buy pirated products. I would have expected the figure to be closer to 100 percent. Mexico at one time restricted foreign music and film distribution on the pretext of protecting the national culture,... 2. 25/11/2009 07:30 - Mary anastasia o?grady: making enemies wherever she goes The Wall Street Journal’s Mary Anastasia O’Grady is probably the only writer I’ll miss if the Journal, as owner Rupert Murdoch threatens , becomes unavailable on the internet without a subscription. Not that I think O’Grady is a good analyst… exactly the opposite. She’s even a better barometer of what Latin Americans are NOT going to do than the ... 3. 25/11/2009 07:00 - Plan merida: lose-lose for u.s. and mexico Mexico is the United States’ closest Latin American neighbor and yet most U.S. citizens receive little reliable information about what is happening within the country. Instead, Mexico and Mexicans are often demonized in the U.S. press. The single biggest reason for this is the way that the entire binational relationship has been recast in terms of security over the past few y... 4. 23/11/2009 17:06 - Shocked i tell you? Really, why is anyone surprised that the U.S. Democratic Party is any more reactionary than the Republican Party when it comes to Latin American policy? Via Honduras Oye! : - The National Democratic Institute (NDI) and the International Republican Institute (IRI), organizations that receive funding from the U.S. State Department, are planning on sending delegations to observe the N... 5. 22/11/2009 16:53 - The skinny on fat It’s one of those great gross-out tales, supposedly only coming from the Heart of Darkness, i.e., Latin America: Reuters (19-November-2009) : LIMA, Nov 19 (Reuters) – Peruvian police said on Thursday they had broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold their fat to buyers who used it to make cosmetics. Four Peruvians were arrested on suspicion of ki... | Estadisticas Posicion del Blog en Nuestro Ranking Hits Semanales Hits Mensuales Ultimas Visitas al Blog
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