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Social Deviance and Paraguay Today: Following Up On Two Herbs
I keep getting hits from people searching for something that leads them to my entry on mate cocido, which is about yerba mate, an herb that people drink in the Southern Cone and Lebanon/Syria (and now in the global North… -
Colombia's Uribe to bring charges against Chavez in the ICC
AFP is reporting that Colombia's ambassador to the UN will bring charges against Chavez today before the International Criminal Court for "patronizing and financing genocide." Why "genocide"? Why not "terrorism," sinc… -
Threating Sovereignty: Chavez funds the FARC $300mil?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7276228.stm Such an accusation is, like Colombia's incursion into Ecuador's territory, an affront to the national sovereignty of, in this case, Colombia. What remains to be seen is wh… -
My unchanged theory on Chavez and his neighbors.
The news in Paraguay today is that, thanks to Chavez' mechanizations, Mercosur is being threatened. Venezuela has sought to enter the pact, and now the move awaits approval by the Brazilian and Paraguayan congresses. … -
Squandered Discovery: 16th Century Gargoyles for $200 in Santo Domingo
The Dominican Republic doesn’t realize that its capital city should be a world destination city on the order of any of the old European capitals or Buenos Aires. Santo Domingo has a world-historical Zona Colonial th… -
"¿Por qué no te callas?" ... the "shut-up" heard 'round the Spanish-speaking world.
Youtube has a relatively new feature called "Videos being watched right now..." Often it's the typical youtube fare (people with light sabers, porn). Now, however, every time I've loaded up youtube, one video "being wa… -
Guatemala, un "rostro maya"-- the problem of "multiculturalism"
The governments (and populations that elect them) of Latin America continue moving left (or "left-lite" perhaps), mostly out of weariness and disillusionment with an image of unregulated free-market prosperity that has … -
Brazil Makes the Top Ten Nations [in oil]... Musings on what this means for Chavez [Is he un metido?
Yesterday Petrobras (Brazil's national oil company) announced that the Tupi oil field (the deep sea field named after the indigenous language group from South America) had between 5 and 8 billion barrels of recoverable … -
Letter XIX. To J---- G----, Esq. "Branding of Cattle" (and the inventiveness of gauchos)
[from Robertson's 1838 Letters on Paraguay, a piece of epistolary history that has, with Calvino's Invisible Cities, reminded me why I love books so much.] .... After this, the purchaser's mark is branded on the best… -
Who'd have thought it? Lawyers as virtuous supporters of the law.
Now that martial law has been declared in Pakistan, there are a bunch of photos of protests attended by suited lawyers, clamoring for a return to civilian rule. Lawyers being beaten by police, though it's not quite Burm…
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