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Obama could help stop Mexico's bloodshed
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Andres Oppenheimer
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MEXICO CITY - Here's an interesting detail about the much-publicized recent arrest of Mexico's top drug baron Edgar Valdez Villarreal, better known as "La Barbie" - he was caught with a U.S.-made M-16 semiautomatic rifle and other sophisticated arms that Mexican officials suspect were smuggled from the United States. In Mexico, U.S. arms smuggling is a big issue. President Felipe Calderon said ...
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Andres Oppenheimer
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MEXICO CITY - Here's an interesting detail about the much-publicized recent arrest of Mexico's top drug baron Edgar Valdez Villarreal, better known as "La Barbie" - he was caught with a U.S.-made M-16 semiautomatic rifle and other sophisticated arms that Mexican officials suspect were smuggled from the United States. In Mexico, U.S. arms smuggling is a big issue. President Felipe Calderon said ...
Sep/07/2010 09:47 AM
U.S. exports up, but losing market share in Latin America
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Here's something that should be sounding alarm bells in Washington: Latin American countries - which have long been big buyers of U.S. goods - are increasingly making a larger chunk of their purchases from other parts of the world. While U.S. exports to the region are growing, in some cases significantly, their percentage of Latin America's overall imports is shrinking. To put it in ...
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Here's something that should be sounding alarm bells in Washington: Latin American countries - which have long been big buyers of U.S. goods - are increasingly making a larger chunk of their purchases from other parts of the world. While U.S. exports to the region are growing, in some cases significantly, their percentage of Latin America's overall imports is shrinking. To put it in ...
Sep/02/2010 09:43 AM
Mexico needs U.S. help , but not troops
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Andres Oppenheimer
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The escalation of drug-related violence in Mexico - including the mass execution of 72 migrants last week - is moving a small but growing number of U.S. foreign policy hawks to call for a radical solution: send in the U.S. Army. I'm not kidding. At first, I thought it was a joke, or the kind of overreaction that is most often confined to the blogosphere. But, increasingly, populist local U.S. ...
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Andres Oppenheimer
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The escalation of drug-related violence in Mexico - including the mass execution of 72 migrants last week - is moving a small but growing number of U.S. foreign policy hawks to call for a radical solution: send in the U.S. Army. I'm not kidding. At first, I thought it was a joke, or the kind of overreaction that is most often confined to the blogosphere. But, increasingly, populist local U.S. ...
Aug/30/2010 10:01 AM
Pro-Arizona immigration law rhetoric will haunt Republicans
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Republican Party candidates who won Tuesday's primary elections have gone so far to the right on the immigration issue, that they may have shot themselves in the foot. Look at what happened in Florida and Arizona, the two states with heavy Hispanic populations that held primary votes Tuesday for November's midterm congressional and gubernatorial elections. In both states, some of the most ...
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Republican Party candidates who won Tuesday's primary elections have gone so far to the right on the immigration issue, that they may have shot themselves in the foot. Look at what happened in Florida and Arizona, the two states with heavy Hispanic populations that held primary votes Tuesday for November's midterm congressional and gubernatorial elections. In both states, some of the most ...
Aug/26/2010 09:40 AM
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re OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI (Andres Oppenheimer, MI) - Column will not move Monday. - (c) 2010, The Miami Herald. Visit The Miami Herald Web edition on the World Wide Web at http://www.herald.com Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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Andres Oppenheimer
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re OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI (Andres Oppenheimer, MI) - Column will not move Monday. - (c) 2010, The Miami Herald. Visit The Miami Herald Web edition on the World Wide Web at http://www.herald.com Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
Aug/23/2010 09:05 AM
We are playing Fidel Castro's game
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Here's the question being asked by almost anybody who is following the latest news from Cuba - what on earth is Fidel Castro up to? Since he made his first public appearance in four years last month, Cuba's officially retired dictator - who turned 84 Friday - hasn't stopped showing up in public, and grabbing the headlines. Proclaiming himself "totally" recovered from the intestinal ailment ...
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Here's the question being asked by almost anybody who is following the latest news from Cuba - what on earth is Fidel Castro up to? Since he made his first public appearance in four years last month, Cuba's officially retired dictator - who turned 84 Friday - hasn't stopped showing up in public, and grabbing the headlines. Proclaiming himself "totally" recovered from the intestinal ailment ...
Aug/16/2010 10:14 AM
Has the time come to legalize drugs?
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Legalization of drugs - long an issue championed mainly by fringe groups - is rapidly moving to the mainstream in Latin America. Last week's surprise statement by former Mexican President Vicente Fox in support of "legalizing production, sales and distribution" of drugs made big headlines around the world. Fox, a former close U.S. ally who belongs to the same center-right political party as ...
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Legalization of drugs - long an issue championed mainly by fringe groups - is rapidly moving to the mainstream in Latin America. Last week's surprise statement by former Mexican President Vicente Fox in support of "legalizing production, sales and distribution" of drugs made big headlines around the world. Fox, a former close U.S. ally who belongs to the same center-right political party as ...
Aug/12/2010 10:09 AM
Gay marriages will prevail , for economic reasons
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Andres Oppenheimer
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From Alaska to Patagonia, supporters of same-sex weddings won important legal victories in recent days. And I would bet that - despite strong Roman Catholic Church opposition - gay marriages will be legal in most countries of the hemisphere sooner than you think. Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Aug. 5 that Mexico City's six-month-old law authorizing same-sex marriage is constitutional, rejecting ...
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Andres Oppenheimer
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From Alaska to Patagonia, supporters of same-sex weddings won important legal victories in recent days. And I would bet that - despite strong Roman Catholic Church opposition - gay marriages will be legal in most countries of the hemisphere sooner than you think. Mexico's Supreme Court ruled Aug. 5 that Mexico City's six-month-old law authorizing same-sex marriage is constitutional, rejecting ...
Aug/08/2010 08:01 PM
Low Hispanic turnout may hurt Democrats
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Judging from the latest polls, and from readers' reactions to my last column on Arizona's immigration law, President Barack Obama will have a hard time getting out the Hispanic vote he badly needs in November to keep his party's control of Congress. Obama's approval rate among Hispanics has fallen from 64 percent in early June to 54 percent at the end of July, according to a Zogby ...
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Judging from the latest polls, and from readers' reactions to my last column on Arizona's immigration law, President Barack Obama will have a hard time getting out the Hispanic vote he badly needs in November to keep his party's control of Congress. Obama's approval rate among Hispanics has fallen from 64 percent in early June to 54 percent at the end of July, according to a Zogby ...
Aug/05/2010 12:38 PM
Arizona ruling may backfire for immigrants
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Andres Oppenheimer
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Like most civil rights supporters, I celebrated last week's news that a judge suspended the harshest portions of Arizona's xenophobic immigration law. But the more I think about it, the more I fear it will backfire in the near future. The ruling suspends the Arizona law's provision that ask local police officers enforcing other laws to demand immigration papers from people they suspect are in ...
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Andres Oppenheimer
BC-OPPENHEIMER-COLUMN:MI (1075 words)
Like most civil rights supporters, I celebrated last week's news that a judge suspended the harshest portions of Arizona's xenophobic immigration law. But the more I think about it, the more I fear it will backfire in the near future. The ruling suspends the Arizona law's provision that ask local police officers enforcing other laws to demand immigration papers from people they suspect are in ...
Aug/02/2010 12:31 PM
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