Beauty and the Beasts
Lazaro Cardenas Street in Mexico City is the unofficial dividing line that separates the Historic Center from the expansive, more modern part of the most populous metropolitan area in the…
Tag: geopolitics
On Poverty.
I was wandering aimless in a Mexican crowd recently when I saw a truck with a loud ad for a just released KFC product. Beneath the enticing photo of a…
Death of the Salesman.
It’s over then. As empires go, this one didn’t last long. The ending came not in one defining moment, perhaps it hasn’t even dawned on many, but it’s finished; done-in…
As the World Burns.
“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.” “What must be done ultimately should be done immediately.” Thus spake two of history’s most infamous…
Blinded by the Right.
On Sunday, March 15, 2009, a general election took place in El Salvador, the Saviour. After twenty years in the violent political wilderness that is El Salvador, Mauricio Funes of…