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...factories are expected to relocate to cheaper spots like Indonesia and Vietnam. We won’t complain when laptop prices drop. Still, Obama hopes to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement, his most perplexing proposal yet. He wants to impose labor and environmental standards on Canadian and Mexican companies, so U.S. companies face “fair” competition. Such standards, however, impede competition. The free market allows companies that provide better goods at cheaper prices to make greater profits. If foreign competitors slap arbitrary standards on them that raise their costs, then competition stumbles, prices rise...
...Sampson and colleagues recently examined more than 3,000 violent acts committed in Chicago from 1995 to 2003, analyzing police records, census data and a survey of more than 8,000 residents. They discovered what Sampson calls the "Latino Paradox" - first-generation Mexican immigrants were 45% less likely to engage in violence than third-generation Americans. This pattern continued into the second generation, which was 22% less likely to be violent. Similar trends have been seen in New York and Miami, both of which have large immigrant enclaves. "Immigrant communities are often responsible for revitalizing the urban neighborhoods that they...
...many of Taring Padi's works survive - they are typically confiscated by police, or simply discarded after demonstrations - but the ones that do are starting to find their way onto the walls of a few hip homes. Inspired by the work of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, German Expressionist Otto Dix and Indonesian masters like Sudjojono, the etchings assault the viewer with their power and passion. Taring Padi "are the unfiltered voice of the people," says John McGlynn, who organizes monthly exhibitions of Indonesian art at his home for a group called JakARTa Kolektors...
...center. One morning in January, Javier Sánchez, an Interpol operational assistant from Barcelona, sat hunched over a computer in the Lyons office, attempting to find a man who had traveled across three continents on stolen documents, and then vanished in São Paolo. Two days earlier, Mexican officials had spotted his stolen Portuguese passport on Interpol's list when he flew into Mexico City from Frankfurt. They deported him back to Germany, where he presented a second stolen passport, this one Brazilian; German officials then deported him to São Paolo, where he disappeared. Interpol...
While the Mexican crime families do not have a history of using bombs, explosive devices used to be a favored tactic of their associates in Colombia. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Medellin cartel responded to a government crackdown with bombs on street corners, cars and even one passenger jet, killing hundreds. Colombian gangsters have long been selling cocaine to the Mexican cartels, who smuggle it into the United States. "The cartels could be turning to this Colombian tactic of using terror to pressure the government to back off," said Mexican drug expert Jorge Chabat. "They may be trying...