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...Mexican staple, tortillas) and other food commodities head south, while assembled goods made from U.S. components head back north. In that mix are some products that could be essential if the flu spreads. Dr. Carlos del Rio, chairman of the global health department at Emory University, wrote in a CNN op-ed, "In the event of a serious flu outbreak in this country, there would be a need for mechanical-ventilator deployments to hospitals. The national stockpile has sufficient ventilators, but the necessary circuits that are needed to operate them are not produced in the United States but in Mexico...
...avoid Mexico's border towns, like Rosarito Beach. Big California universities, like UCLA, have also advised students to stay away from Mexico resort towns south of San Diego. To make matters worse, even iconic Latino celebrity Edward James Olmos recently urged people to "don't go" to Mexico on CNN's Larry King Live...
Sources: New York Times; BBC; Christian Science Monitor; CNN; ABC News; Los Angeles Times...
ASHTON KUTCHER punks CNN in Twitter competition...
Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, defended the government's concession to the Taliban, denying in an interview with CNN that the cease-fire agreement amounted to capitulation. He justified the action by comparing it to the 2006 U.S.-led Anbar Awakening in Iraq in which U.S. military commanders struck agreements with moderate jihadists. "We are open to criticism of that strategy, but to think that that strategy somehow represents an abdication of our responsibility toward our people and toward the security of our country and the region is incorrect," Haqqani said...