In a post where there's only a 99% chance he borrowed the link from me without giving credit, Yglesias comments on the same Guardian post on indigenous education in Oaxaca that I did. Except he really doesn't seem to understand the larger forces at work...
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Building on the discussion of indigenous poverty in Oaxaca from a couple of days ago is this Guardian piece on indigenous children not going to school in rural Oaxaca, thus.
For several decades, labor has flirted with transnational unionism as a way to combat globalization and the loss of jobs in the United States. American unions began showing interest in.
The photographer Matt Black has a gallery up at Guernica featuring his photos of the Mixteca, an indigenous region of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. I'd place an example or two up here but copying the photos is seemingly not allowed. Black says this about his...
Why try to pretend that this should be taken seriously? Second, it's not just about drugs. The Venezuelan alliance is almost a classic geopolitical attempt to deny the US access.
Last week I spoke with Vanda Felbab-Brown of Brookings about gangsters, pirates, insurgents, and weak states. Here we talk a bit about the violence of the Mexican drug cartels:Vanda also.
The people of the United States like cocaine and heroin. Consequently, entrepreneurs in Latin America produce cocaine and heroin. However, the government of the United States has determined that the people of the United States should be prohibited from using cocaine and heroin. In spite...