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...freshest notion a third way could bring to Latin America is transparent, accountable democratic institutions. The most pressing urgency is the need for judicial systems and police forces that can tackle Venezuela's soaring murder rate or neutralize Mexican drug gangs so vicious they're tossing the heads of decapitated rivals in streets and nightclubs. "Crime," Calderon concedes, "is a battle we are losing." Among many others. So maybe now, with the battle for Latin America's soul over, conservatives and leftists - and Washington - can focus together for once on a war to reduce the region's social and economic...
They're divided into two camps. There are the gringos who go down there and live in gated communities or in condo complexes. They don't mingle as much. In our village, we live with our Mexican neighbors. My first next-door neighbor was a construction worker, and there were chickens running up and down the dirt road. By the way, chickens gobble down scorpions, so that makes them really good neighbors...
...thing that really puzzled the Mexicans we got to know was the gringos who come down and start the litany of complaints about inefficiencies. Gringo amnesia is having the lights go out in your village and forgetting that lights go out in the States too. Or getting irritated at a long line and forgetting what it's like to stand at the Department of Motor Vehicles. We went down determined to do things the Mexican way, and it was appreciated by our Mexican friends...
...Mexican food or American when you're in Mexico...
DIED. Jesus Blancornelas, 70, relentless investigative reporter known as the godfather of modern Mexican journalism, who exposed drug cartels and government corruption and survived an assassination attempt in 1997; of a chronic illness; in Tijuana...