New Orleans Spending any day in Mexico City with Suyapa Amador, head organizer of ACORN Mexico, involves at least one and sometimes two and three stops at local stores to buy minutes for her cell phone. Thanks to the virtual monopoly that Telcel, a subsidiary of America Movil owned by gazillionaire Carlos Slim Helu, not …
Category: International
Red Teams and Fifty Rupee Balls
New Orleans Like many I’ve read the Osama Bin Laden deathwatch and Seal 6 commando raid stories, word for word, and line by line. I’ve found it fascinatingly educational. Reading Leon Panetta, the USA CIA director’s accounts of the search for Bin Laden, I found it telling that one of the last steps before presenting …
Snow, Favelas, and Malcolm X
Coer d’ Alene My son, Chaco, and I had pulled off the grid 21 miles east of Missoula at the signpost advertising the annual “Teste-Feste” every summer, an event we simply hustle by on the way up Rock Creek. As we lost cell service and email access to our surprise we were greeted by snow. …