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...Prize, contrasts Latin America with tigers like Ireland and China in Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do (Random House; 300 pages). He tells the story of an Indiana businessman who, on a visit to the Great Wall, grouses that his Mexican clients don't "reinvest in their companies or improve the quality of their materials like the Chinese." Latin America's bane, Oppenheimer suggests, is "peripheral blindness"--measuring itself against its past instead of its contemporary competitors while neglecting critical investment factors like crime (Latin businesses spend more than twice...
...will tell you that her best experience at Harvard has been mariachi. One of the few cultural musical groups on campus, Mariachi Veritas, of which Yapp is a member, attempts to enliven traditional mariachi, playing recent compositions and including female members, an accordion, and many non-Mexican members. “We’re not a cliché,” Mariachi Veritas president Beatrice Viramontes ’08 says. “Whether looking at us as a cultural or a musical group, not many groups have so much diversity.” Many Mariachi Veritas members...
...provide knowledge to students and to the community as a whole.” The keynote speakers, whose speeches will be split up throughout the day, will include Martin M. Werner, the head of Goldman Sachs Latin America and former undersecretary of finance and public credit in the Mexican Treasury; former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari; and former Honduran President Ricardo M. Joest. The conference, in which nearly 700 individuals have requested a spot, still has spots open for the general public. “We hope that audience members will gain a fresh understanding of where things stand...
...other side of the warehouse door, at the bar, the breweries were all different. Some served barbecue, others Mexican food. Many had fried things; some offered just beer. Some were filled with regulars downing pints; others were primarily for tourists coming to taste. And just as American wineries now grow grapes from nearly every European region, I was able to sample all the world's beer styles, from the weird red Lambics of Belgium, which taste like Sour Patch Kids candy, to chocolaty Irish porters...
...heard of the 'Reconquista' of the United States? I live in the west - and the 'humanitarian' stealing of tax payers dollars here to fund the incompetence of Latinos to fund their own health care or learn English is appalling," wrote a blogger who signed as Diana Jorgensen. However, Mexican intellectuals view the re-conquest as cultural rather than military, talking with satisfaction over the fact people in California are speaking Spanish and eating enchiladas. No one in the mainstream of Mexican politics seriously contemplates an offensive northward. Mexico City car mechanic Santiago Gomez finds the ad funny, but would prefer...