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...while the 1980s brand of internationalism has ended, there are still plenty of sandal-wearing gringo adventurers coming down to Nicaragua, though most now are looking to invest in inexpensive real estate and turn a profit. Of course, the old guard would say that's exactly what it means to be in solidarity with the new Sandinista government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twilight of the Sandal-istas | 3/6/2008 | See Source »

...oligarchy," he says, "would still much prefer to sell their home to a white and wealthy Gringo than to a Liberal, a black or someone from the working class who has made money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Goes the Neighborhood | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...academic year. Gingo stated that it simply appeared as if dorm-dwellers were either finding the Harvard-issue pillows to be less comfortable than their own or were put off by the prospect of propping their pates on pillows carried over from previous years. Whatever the case, Gringo noted that given the pillows’ typical life span of only three years and Dorm Crew’s habit of trashing those limp and covered in stains, about a third of the total stock (about 2,800 pillows) had to be replaced each year. But not all students counting...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Bid Farewell to Former Room Staples | 9/10/2007 | See Source »

Calderón's act is going over well in Washington too. After 100 days on the job, he is emerging as President George W. Bush's anti-Chávez--a conservative counterweight to a resurgent Latin American left led by Venezuela's gringo-bashing President Hugo Chávez. Leftists won seven of 11 Latin presidential elections last year, and Calderón beat his left-wing opponent, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, by only half a percentage point. Losing Mexico, the U.S.'s third largest trading partner, would have sunk America's foundering influence in the region. Instead, when Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's New Friend in Mexico | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...those anti-Gringo fears have been fanned by the Argentine military's own public concern about the Guarani aquifer. Military planners are convinced that Argentina's oil and fresh water deposits could become vulnerable targets for major world powers in an ecologically dark future, and are acting accordingly, putting together "Plan 2025," parceling the country into regions based on their resource potential. "Each division will be based in the geographical areas where the natural resources that we hypothetically must defend are located," Argentine Army Commander-in-Chief Roberto Bendini said when the plan was unveiled late last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ugly American Environmentalist | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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