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Homeland Security Double Speak in the Age of Terror

New Orleans My streak started in Canada in the fall, had my family sitting on floors in Houston coming back from Costa Rica for an hour, and pretty much became predictable when I was held up 8 of 9 times for “secondary security,” as I reentered the country.  Having started another streak where I’m 4 [...]

Neza and the Rest

Mexico City                At first Mexico City may not seem like the place to be when there is a heat wave in the USA, but July at a mile high turns out to be the rainy season and wildly pleasant especially reading about power outages in Toronto, record heat in NYC, and I don’t even have [...]

Tactics and Strategy When Law Has No Meaning

Tegucigalpa Dilcia Zavala, ACORN Honduras director in Tegucigalpa, led us across town until to Colonia Ramon Amaya Amador near the international airport where we parked on a rough, unpaved road and walked into a garage where more 60 people, virtually all women, were already seated waiting for us.  For the next several hours we [...]

Global Market Math in the Coffee Mountains

Marcala As hot and humid as it had been in San Pedro Sula and driving across the country, last night’s showers and a steady, gentle breeze at dawn at the crest of the coffee growing mountains was a lulling reminder of the grace of the campos.  The quiet and cool seemed everywhere as I sat [...]

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