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Friday Night Video Roadtrip
on Oct 30, 2009 in Ciudad de México Lola Beltran Music Ranchera music Sinaloa On the Road with Lola and Lucha. Cars were bigger back in the early 1960s when Sinaloa’s queen of the rancheras, Lola Beltran (born 24 March 1932 in Rosario) and Lucha Villa could cruise down Av. Insurgente in a BelAire convertible with an enti...
Día de los perros muertos
on Oct 30, 2009 in Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico) Animals Cuba Perros The Dallas Morning News’ entire Havana bureau is Tracy Eaton. Half of the entire original United States press corps in Cuba (the other was Laurie Goering of the Chicago Tribune) since 2000, Eaton also posts his affectionate, but clear-eyed bl...
Dearth and taxes
on Oct 29, 2009 in Agriculture Agustín Carstens Economy & Business Felipe Calderón Multinationals Politica (Mexicana) The rebellion of the geeks succeeded. The three percent telecommunciations connection tax is dead. However, it appears that PRI and PAN senators have more or less signed off on a one percent raise in the sales tax (IVA), and higher taxes on alchoho...
(semi) CENSORED!
on Oct 29, 2009 in Agriculture Border Fence Border Issues Bureaucracy Corridos Crime and Punishment Drugs Economy & Business Environment Human Rights Humor Los Tigres del Norte Morditas and bribery Music Vicente Fox La Granja, the Los Tigres del Norte fable about the collapse of Mexican agriculture (and society) under the mismanagement of the “drug war” is not exactly banned by the government. However, several radio stations have refused to play th...
Ag biz and funny biz: or putting the cartel before the horse
on Oct 28, 2009 in Agriculture Bureaucracy Economy & Business I’m not the first person to suggest that fighting the narcotics cartels is a waste of Mexican resources, and legalizing the production end of the business might be the way to go, letting the governments in the user countries figure out their ow...
Co-incidence?
on Oct 27, 2009 in Americas (outside U.S. and Mexico) Clueless gringos in Mexico Economy & Business Gringo(landia) La Raza (Mexican cultures and peoples) Lou Dobbs Media Multinationals I really don’t care much about U.S. television (I normally check on-line sources, and if I want to see U.S. television news, I wait until MSNBC programs are posted on the internet about an hour after their airing in the U.S. –and maybe wa...