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...control routes along the highly porous Guatemala-Mexico border and elsewhere in Central America. "Now there's an all-out struggle to see who gets to dominate this link in the drug trafficking chain," says Bagley. The contenders include Mexico's two dominant drug enterprises - the Sinaloa and Gulf cartels, along with their Guatemalan partners...
...satisfying to be able to act out exactly what he envisioned as a writer. “As a writer the frustrating thing about it is that you can have in your head the words exactly as they need to be, and there’s that awkward gulf between that and what the performer does,” he says.On the other hand, Simon H. Rich ’06-’07—a former president of the Lampoon who is in his second year of writing for SNL—says, “They...
...dubbed Operation Atalanta. The motivations for the U.S. and the EU are clear. Pirates off Somalia disrupt a key trade route that has linked the Mediterranean with the Indian Ocean for centuries. In this era of globalization, many trading corporations have pressured their respective governments to take action. The gulf also contains a very profitable tourist route for high-end cruises. On Tuesday, the 246 passengers aboard the cruise ship MS Columbus, owned by the German firm Hapag-Lloyd, were flown to Dubai in order to avoid the danger zone. The secretary-general of the German tourist federation, Hans-Gustav...
...Those crafty capitalists on Wall Street should have had a heavier dose of regulation to keep them in line. Even the whole concept of free, liberal economies has come under attack. Some observers have gone so far as to praise state-guided economies, like those of China or the Gulf emirates, where the government owns or controls large swaths of the economy, as superior to their laissez-faire counterparts. Columnist Joshua Kurlantzick wrote that these countries "have proven so successful that even before the crisis they caused world leaders to wonder if democratic capitalism might not be the best economic...
...lives became intertwined in June 2005 after Jackson was cleared of charges that he molested a 13-year-old boy in California. That trial left Jackson, once one of the world's wealthiest entertainers, in financial tatters. Al Khalifa offered Jackson refuge in his oil-rich Gulf state and, the sheik's lawyer said, footed Jackson's $2.2 million legal bill...