Showing posts with label latin america. Show all posts
Showing posts with label latin america. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2011

Mexican Economic Miralce? Carstens for #IMFpost #CDS #collapse #global #economy #transition #peakoil #narco

Mexico's financials are about as open as OPEC's reserves statements. Mexico's economy depends greatly on the USA recovery and yet somehow they are magically growing.

Must be the damn drug trade funneling $60B into the economy untaxed.

Clipped from www.bloomberg.com

IMF Candidate Carstens Winning Over Bond Investors at Home: Mexico Credit

Carstens’s “credibility has been enhanced,” Pablo Cisilino, who helps manage $22 billion in emerging-market debt
at Stone Harbor Investment in New York, said in a telephone
interview. “Carstens came out and said we’re going to stay put
and inflation is not going to pick up, it’s going to come down.
Something that you’ve been predicting happens, your credibility
gets enhanced.”
“It definitely says that the market is perfectly happy
with the way that Carstens is conducting monetary policy,”
Kieran Curtis, who helps manage more than $3 billion of
emerging-market assets, including peso debt, at Aviva Investors
in London, said in a telephone interview. “No change for still
a reasonable period of time is quite a reasonable sort of policy
outlook to expect.”
“Weak” economic growth is more responsible for the
decline in consumer prices in Mexico than Carstens, said Benito Berber, Latin America strategist at Nomura Securities.
Mexico has nominated Carstens, who was deputy managing
director at the IMF from 2003 to 2006, to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who resigned as head of the organization last week
to defend himself against criminal charges including attempted
rape. French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who is also
seeking the top job at the Washington-based Fund, has won
endorsements from European countries including the U.K., Germany
and Sweden.
Read more at www.bloomberg.com

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

left-leaning voters have been scrubbed

This is exactly what happened in Florida in 2000 and what is happening AGAIN throughout the USA in 2011 in preparation for 2012.

Do not let the Necons take control of this country AGAIN!! We dont need more war, debt, financial crisis, Katrina's BP oil spills, and thousands of other countless corporate welfare programs to enrich the few.

Clipped from www.guardian.co.uk
Mexico and Florida have more in common than heat

There is evidence that left-leaning voters have been scrubbed from key electoral lists in Latin America

There's something rotten in Mexico. And it smells like Florida. The ruling party, the Washington-friendly National Action Party (Pan), proclaimed yesterday their victory in the presidential race, albeit tortilla thin, was Mexico's first "clean" election. But that requires we close our eyes to some very dodgy doings in the vote count that are far too reminiscent of the games played in Florida in 2000 by the Bush family. And indeed, evidence suggests that Team Bush had a hand in what may be another presidential election heist.

Just before the 2000 balloting in Florida, I reported in the Guardian that its governor, Jeb Bush, had ordered the removal of tens of thousands of black citizens from the state's voter rolls. He called them "felons", but our investigation discovered their only crime was Voting While Black. And that little scrub of the voter rolls gave the White House to his brother George.

Read more at www.guardian.co.uk
 

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Drug Decriminalization in Mexico and US #FastandFurious #DrugWar

This is a good plan. Prohibition clearly did not succeed and the US and Mexican War on Drugs is not succeeding either. Legalize it. Tax it and stop enforcement. This will free up so much money for the state and federal governments of Mexico and the US. It will also reduce the overcrowded prison burden, and lower government spending - because that costs money too.

Clipped from www.cato.org

Mexico's Failed Drug War

by Jorge Castañeda
What is going on with Mexico's drug war? Why are we in our current mess, and what are the possibilities of getting out of it in any reasonable time frame?
We are in this mess today, as opposed to over the last 40 or 50 years, because when the current president, Felipe Calderón, took office over three years ago, he felt that he had no choice but to declare a full-fledged, no-holds-barred war on drugs. He declared this war after a three-month transition period, which was very rocky because of the controversy surrounding the elections. And he declared this war because he had the impression that it was as if a patient had come to him and said, "I have a stomachache." Thinking it was a problem of appendicitis, he opened the patient up and found that the entire abdominal cavity was invaded by cancer. He had no option other than to go in with everything he had to fix it. This was the country Calderón said he found. He had to declare a war on drugs because the drug cartels had reached a level of power, wealth, violence, and penetration of the state that made the situation untenable.
Read more at www.cato.org

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Libya - Like Egypt or Like Venezuela? - Must See a film by Oliver Stone

South of the Border - a film by Oliver Stone - Extremely relevant documentary about Latin America. Watch the movie. Hear how South american leaders are depicted, then read this news from today.

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/01/134154387/South-Americas-Middle-Class-Consumers-Boost-Economies