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How are we doing?
The United Nations 2009 Human Development Report is on-line for those of a wonkish frame of mind. As I’ve said before, Mexico is not a particularly poor country, it just looks that way being ne… more →
The Mex Files
How are we doing?
richmx2 wrote 1 month ago: The United Nations 2009 Human Development Report is on-line for those of a wonkish frame of mind. As … more →
Business and history
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richmx2 wrote 3 months ago: Empire has its consequences. In John Le Carré’s A Most Wanted Man English banker, Tommy Brue, … more →
READ THIS!!
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richmx2 wrote 4 months ago: Where there are unresolved political and economic disputes, there will be violence. One would hope d … more →
An addition to la familia...
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richmx2 wrote 6 months ago: Break out the cigars and welcome the newest Latin American “international relations, politics … more →
Mexico conquers the world
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richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: Mexico, has been reinterpreting the wider world in its own terms for as long as there has been a Mex … more →
Well, tourists do lose stuff
richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: Times (U.K.) A BRITISH agent has thrown the war against drug traffickers into chaos by leaving top s … more →
Bullshit by the numbers: the "drug war" again (sorry)
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richmx2 wrote 7 months ago: This is getting old. Some 10,560 people have been killed since 2006, the year Mexican President Feli … more →
Money money money.... MON-eeee
richmx2 wrote 8 months ago: Bloomberg (via The [Mexico City] News): The peso, stocks and bonds surged after the government said … more →
Latin American at the forefront of world affairs
richmx2 wrote 8 months ago: … too bad it’s just a photo op… Globe and Mail … more →
Then I saw the Congo... thieves or spies?
richmx2 wrote 8 months ago: Mexico doesn’t print any huge denomination bills (a thousand pesos is the largest denomination … more →
A cranky stop on the Ruta Maya
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richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: San Cristobal de las Casas is a very, very weird place. The sizable gringo (the North American varie … more →
Friday Night Video for Silvio Berlusconi
richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: If you don’t know why Latin Americans are appalled by the Italian Prime Minister, read Lillie … more →
Hemispheric snark
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richmx2 wrote 9 months ago: Stephen K Amos a black British comedian has alleged on a TV show that aired Tuesday Feb, 10, 2009, t … more →
Sunday Reading: Crime and Punishment
richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: Justice… or “just us”? …the New York Times [12-January 2009] ran a story on … more →
JOE the invader
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richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: Diana Washington Valdez has inadvertently let loose a blogo-shit-storm with her story in the 13 Jan … more →
Sequester carbon, not people
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richmx2 wrote 10 months ago: Mexico went for the world record for the most trees planted in a single day (300,000) back in August … more →
Sobreviviremos
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richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: Is this supposed to happen? Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) — Mexico’s foreign reserves may show a sixth s … more →
UN-reconciliable differences
richmx2 wrote 11 months ago: Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, … more →
Bloody twits!
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richmx2 wrote 12 months ago: Nezua got a bit bent out of shape about the The Times (of England) On-line 7 December “Confess … more →
