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The dependably snarky (and very funny) Guanabee manages to be it’s usual snarky, funny self while writing a genuinely informative and well-researched essay on the implications of the Spanish-language slur, “maricón.”
Upside Down World looks at the growing militarization, calls for drug interdiction and claims that “illegal aliens” are becoming a threat (sound familiar?) on the Mexican-Guatemalan Border. “Free trade” and agricultural subsidies are the main culprits, as they are in the on-going U.S.-Mexican border controversy.
The Bank of the South officially comes into existence today. Figureing out what the Pan-Latin owned and operated development bank means — and doesn’t mean — is why we read sites from the Council on Hemispheric Relations.
With the Pope himself attacking neo-liberalism, maybe it’s time to review Liberation Theology. It still having an impact, and is far from dead, in Latin America, or elsewhere, Jason Rowe writes in Foreign Policy in Focus.
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