Buenos Aires One of the flash points in the USA immigration reform debate continues to be over the demand from farmers for help in their fields from migrant agricultural workers. Recently they left the Republican (and Obama Administration) consensus in droves as US-farmer organizations and Congresspeople bridled at the fact that employers, i.e. farmers, would …
Month: August 2011
Darrell Issa is Vulnerable, Time to Take Him Out of Congress!
Buenos Aires Yes, I’m in Buenos Aires. The weather is overcast and cool, because it’s winter in the Southern Cone after all. I can see the impact of inflation everywhere. $3.50 for an expresso doble now, a special tourist visa for Americans and Canadians since 2009, remis from the airport now almost a third to …
Mega Troubles for Microfinance
Buenos Aires Today ACORN International released a shocking report, Mega Troubles for Microfinance (www.acorninternational.org), as the result of months and years of first skepticism and now study of the claims and contradictions of the industry. In a letter to policy makers, politicians, and development agencies throughout the world, signed by ACORN International President Kay Bisnah …