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Interesting comments all around. I am now in Cartagena Colombia on the Carribean. Re the 2nd peace treaty.Most people I speak to and they are many are in favor of peace.Watchimg a TV program Conversemos En Paz a young woman university student repeated a new...

Nikad¨ La revolucion cubana in 1959 was a necessary step that with the passage of time went horribly wrong. No US gov't official has ever said at any time that China was ¨democratic. One of the best ways to draw countries into dialogue is thru free trade. Castro didn't have a...

EJLarson: Please Ed don't be so hard on StevePalermo.I'm not sure he's even an Australian citizen.He told me that he's only been there for 4 years. He says the White Australia Immigration Policy in effect as late as 1975 is ancient history there.In the early part of the 20th century...

Let's talk it over or as the Spanish put it¨,¨Hablando se entiende la gente¨is key to keep in mind when we are living in a participative democracy anywhere. I am presently in Bogota,Colombia and it would appear that people here have finally taken this to heart after more than 50 years of...

nikad. You have always impressed me as an intelligent person.I cannot believe that you really think that the majority of Cubans supported Fidel after 1980 or so. When I was in Cuba in 2005 in Santa Clara and La Habana my Cuban friends would invite me to their homes. In hushed tones and...

Ireland: The social set up in L.A. is primarily a result of Spanish and Portuguese colonial mercantilism.An isolationist US did work with those elites like in Cuba but that is past history. Please update yourself re.the US and Latin America..You're living about 30 years in the...

An interesting sequel to he above has appeared in today's (Nov.24) NYTimes in the Opinion- Page Room for Debate Section A Havard prof in favor and a Yale prof against Could it be that too much "identity politics" went against Hillary and the Democrats? Hmm?

As somone who knows the Alto Palermo clientele fairly well,I would say it's more like. Middle income Argentines shop at the Alto Palermo mall Poor Argentines shop as always in Once and La Salada Really rich Argentines and Brazilians shop in New York and somewhat in...

somewhereinba:`´ Right you are.If they haven't seen the light since the "infamous period" of the 90s, when my clients at American Airlines called their BA-US flights the jewel in the crown,it is doubtful that they will any time soon...

This was Pagina Doce's headline last Friday,11/18 .According to their point of view,largely due to Pierre Trudeau's urging Macri had finally decided to answer the UN's request to review Milago Sala's detention situation.Where's the miracle already? Macri had previously stated that he would allow...

Age is a state of mind and good health At 74 I have reinvented myself at least 3 times in my lifetime and I'm ready for the 4th. As Yogi Berra famously said,"It ain't over,'til it's over":

Trumps election is most probably the greatest domestic challenge the US people as a whole have had to face since the Civil War. Although it seems that JFK borrowed this phrase from his headmaster in secondary school,it,nonetheless,rings true today: "Don't ask what your country can do for...

EJLarson: Kissenger meant democrats and republicans seeing what they are able to work on together for the country's benefit.Exacrly what Schumer and other democrats are already doing.Maybe you didn't get Sanders but you already had Schumer. I say ,Go for it,big...

nikad: As a native New Yorker and a porteño by adoption,you are right.Neither one gives a crap what anyone else thinks about their egocentrism re:their 2 cities. I am still technologically challenged re link making but if you google a "New Yorker's View of the USA"...

Not to worry,folks. The NYTimes reports today that Brooklynite and Democratic senator Chuck Ellis Schumer is heading a group of democrats to align with the Republicans on a series of issues.If you can't beat them,join them? Not a bad idea.Kissinger also said that Trump is...

syngirl: I'm not that knowledgeable about Canadian unemployment.I could be mistaken but I read that many of the unemployed in Alberta are originally from Atlantic Canada.So maybe that area will also celebrate a US Republican win if only just a little.

Now here is an interesting and useful article from The Bubble."Why You Should Found A StartUp In Argentina" by Augustin Esperon,cofounder of Wideo.co There's nothing like the advice of someone who has been through this experience lately with news on new government policy and help.It's a quick...

StevePalermo...: Of course,"the country is enrichedby their industry and work ethic". My question is ,Why did it take Australia until 1975 and the repeal of the White Australia Policy to figure that out?

Trump's Election Now that it is all over but the shouting and there is a whole lot of that.How did this happen with so few people seeing it coming? It would appear that Trump's personality as obnoxious as it is motivated millions of " used to have more" and "forgotten about" people in mainly...

Here's how Guillermo Marijuan,a federal judge has statred doing it just today.He is demanding that the 55 Argentine Universities account for each peso of the AR$ 747 million ( approximately U$D 50 million) doled out to them during the Kirchner administration.About 70% of wich went to the Flor de...