Augusto Pinochet

Moochers and Looters

There's a socialist wave in Latin America. Mexico, Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil recently elected leftists. These politicians at least distance themselves from thugs like Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, but all propose socialism-lite policies giving government more control over more people. Why don't people in Latin America learn from the mistakes of ...


Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Mexico’s Next Chapter

Mexico’s establishment party got kicked to the curb in Sunday’s election, winning only 16 percent of the vote, which should remind us that we are constantly told two rather contradictory things about immigration from Latin ...

Disaster on the Benighted Continent

Malcolm Horne, a London barrister, has written in very blunt terms regarding the planned land grab in South Africa: “You cannot have land expropriation without compensation. It is illegal under international law. It is contrary to a ...

Mexico, as It Is and Wasn’t: Some Stuff Worth Knowing

For Americans concerned about Mexico and Mexicans, and what sort of wights they be, a little history may help. We seem to know almost nothing about a bordering nation of 130 million. It is not what most of us think it is. It is ...

Temple of Kukulcan

The Mexico Way

Why does Donald Trump dumb down his speeches? For a clue, consider how badly the elite media continues to miss the point of the most notorious thing he ever said, this infinitely denounced passage in his June 16, 2015, speech ...

Africa on the Brink

The governments of Europe are confronting an epochal choice in the Mediterranean. Do they allow Europe to remain on course toward inundation by the African population explosion, inevitably turning Florence into Ferguson and Barcelona ...

Joaquin

Marching on Behalf of a Gangster

Last week, a crowd estimated at between 1,000 and 2,000 Mexicans marched and demonstrated in support of captured drug lord Joaquin "€œEl Chapo"€ Guzman while chanting "€œrelease him"€ to the tunes of a brass band. On ...

Barbarians at the Mall Entrance

What do you call it when thousands of dark-skinned, slum-dwelling youths conspire on Facebook to suddenly show up at a swank, tony, mostly white shopping mall? Some might call it a party. Others would call it a nightmare. In Brazil, ...

Michelle Bachelet

Man’s Eternal Struggle for Self-Importance

Chile is one of many faraway countries of which I know nothing, but I was intrigued to read in the French press of its recent presidential election. Socialist candidate Michelle Bachelet won by a large majority of the votes cast: 62.16% ...

Capriles Randonksi and Hugo Chavez

Civil War in Venezuela?

Although Hugo Chavez managed to beat rival Henrique Capriles Randonski in the October 2012 election, Chavez was soundly trounced by Death. Capriles Randonksi managed to gain 44.31% of the vote (the highest ever won by a Chavez opponent) ...


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