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 Editorials
Respecting Latin America
 LATimes
There is little President Bush can do at today's Summit of the Americas in Argentina to reverse the impression that Latin America remains on his diplomatic backburner and that Washington's influence in the region, while still considerable, is waning.more »»»
Secrets and Shame
 Bob Herbert
Ultimately the whole truth will come out and historians will have their say, and Americans will look in the mirror and be ashamed. Abraham Lincoln spoke of the "better angels" of our nature. George W. Bush will have none of that. He's set his sights much, much lower.more »»»
Ozzie vs. Bush
 Peter Wells Scott
There are certain lessons that fat cats and fat heads have trouble learning. In fact, it is almost impossible. Every president, it seems, hits a wind tunnel during his second term that puts him on the brink of destruction.
Or is it self destruction.more »»»
Democrats: It's the War
 Dennis Kucinich
Ending the war in Iraq is right for a lot of reasons. The war was unjustified, unnecessary and unprovoked. It is counterproductive, strengthening al-Qaeda and weakening the moral authority of the United States. It is deadly: Many Americans have been killed or injured as a result of the fighting. And it is costly: Well over $250 billion in taxpayer funds have already been spent, with no end in sight.more »»»
Mexico’s Undiplomatic Diplomats
 Heather Mac Donald
It’s a strain being a Mexican diplomat in the US these days, as the plaintive expression on Mario Velázquez-Suárez’s dignified features suggests. Diplomacy may be the art of lying for one’s country, but Mexican diplomacy requires taking that art to virtuosic heights.more »»»
U.S. Immigration – A Mexican Point of View
 Enrique Andrade González
Electorally in the United States, now might be a good time to propose alternatives in an effort to reconcile the wishes of those who are opposed to more undocumented immigration with those who need the workers. This could also lessen ill will among sympathetic Latino voters.more »»»
The White House Criminal Conspiracy
 Elizabeth de la Vega
Legally, there are no significant differences between the investor fraud perpetrated by Enron CEO Ken Lay and the prewar intelligence fraud perpetrated by George W. Bush. Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them.more »»»
A Celebration to Wake the Dead Blends Heritage, Family and Food
 Laura Taxel
In the little town of Chamilpa, outside Cuernavaca, Mexico, where Salvador Gonzales grew up, it's said death comes in threes: at the last breath, at burial, and, saddest of all, when you are forgottenmore »»»
Mexican Primary Politics... the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
 Carlos Luken
Baring unimaginable circumstances, Mexico’s presidential primary season has unofficially ended as all three major parties have defined their candidates for the upcoming 2006 election.more »»»
Scholar Diagnoses Mexico's Political Ailments
 David Gaddis Smith
"Mexico's democracy is sick. It's ill," social scientist Sergio Aguayo says. Aguayo, a professor at the Center for International Studies at the prestigious Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, said he had at one point thought President Vicente Fox's victory over Mexico's long-ruling Institutional Party in 2000 was going to make a fundamental and healthy difference in Mexico's system of governance.more »»»
Who Is Scooter Libby?
 John Dickerson
Who is I. Lewis Libby? The not-Karl-Rove character at the center of the CIA leak investigation is so mysterious he hides his first name. Rove we know: He's Bush's political id - a self-taught master of political hardball, a brash Texan who has plotted the president's advance for 25 years.more »»»
VA Seeks to Punish Iraq War Veterans
 Gene C. Gerard
The Veterans Affairs Department is currently reviewing approximately one-third of the cases of veterans who are receiving disability benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). After conducting an internal study, the VA believes that they were too lenient in deciding which soldiers were eligible for PTSD benefits.more »»»
Aid Cash Rivalry Leads to Poster "Pornography"
 Ruth Gidley
Twenty years ago, images of starving black babies in Ethiopia pleading silently for food helped to raise billions of dollars in aid. However, the campaign led to soul-searching among aid agency staff who believed such images reinforced debasing stereotypes of Africa and robbed the subjects of their dignity.more »»»
Voting Rights, Human Rights
 NYTimes
The US has the worst record in the democratic world when it comes to stripping convicted felons of the right to vote. Of the nearly five million people who were barred from participating in the last presidential election, for example, most, if not all, would have been free to vote if they had been citizens of any one of dozens of other nations.more »»»
Questions and Answers on CIA Leak Case
 David Caruso
Reporters hauled before grand juries. A White House under fire. With the CIA leak investigation perhaps ending soon, some questions and answers about what it has meant.more »»»
Disappearing Anti-War Protests
 FAIR
If you relied on television for your news, you'd hardly know the protests happened at all. According to the Nexis news database, the only mention on the network newscasts that Saturday came on the NBC Nightly News, where the massive march received all of 87 words.more »»»
Mexico Continues to Advance Under Vicente Fox
 Carlos Luken
Elected five years ago as president of Mexico, Vicente Fox ended a 71-year power grip by the PRI. And in doing so he raised expectations and enthusiasm by promoting ambitious political and economic reforms while eliminating corruption.more »»»
He's No Warren Buffett
 David Olive
The legacy of the Bush administration may well be that government can no longer be entrusted to business people. That would be a shame, given that business savants as varied as Kennedy treasury secretary Douglas Dillon and Silicon Valley legend Dave Packard served ably in Washington.more »»»
We Don't Exist
 Cindy Sheehan
Last weekend, Karl Rove said that I was a clown and the anti-war movement was "non-existent." I wonder if the hundreds of thousands of people who showed up to protest this war and George's failed policies know that they don't exist.more »»»
The 'Stuff Happens' Presidency
 Harold Meyerson
We're not number one. We're not even close. By which measures, precisely, do we lead the world? Caring for our countrymen? You jest. A first-class physical infrastructure? Tell that to New Orleans. Throwing so much money at the rich that we've got nothing left over to promote the general welfare? Now you're talking.more »»»
Bush's Words on Iraq Echo LBJ in 1967
 Douglass K. Daniel
Bush officials bristle at the suggestion the war in Iraq might look anything like Vietnam. Yet just as today's anti-war protests recall memories of yesteryear, President Bush's own words echo those of President Johnson in 1967, a pivotal year for the US in Vietnam.more »»»
Under Din of Abortion Debate, an Experience Shared Quietly
 John Leland
Far from Washington and the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge John G. Roberts Jr., here in Little Rock on an August weekend, 26 women from as far away as Oklahoma joined the more than one million American women who will probably have abortions this year.more »»»
Bush's Hard Fall
 Garrison Keillor
Scientists have found that football fans experience a 20 percent drop in testosterone after their teams lose a game. Your team goes down to bitter defeat and you sit on the couch, crushed, almost in tears, and your wife snuggles up next to you and blows in your ear and you think, "Oh no, not that again."more »»»
The Ever-Changing Face of Campaign Politics in Mexico
 Carlos Luken
Once more the unimaginable seems unavoidable in Mexican politics. Barely two weeks following the start of what looked to be a ho-hum event, Mexican presidential campaigning took another turn in which the 2006 election outcome may again become unpredictable.more »»»
They Shoot News Anchors, Don't They?
 Nikki Finke
The real test of pathos vs. profit is still before us: whether the TV newscasters will spend the fresh reservoir of trust earned with the public to not only rattle Bush's cage but also battle their own bosses.more »»»
Mexican "Coyote" Smuggles Immigrants into the U.S.
 Brenda Gazzar
People involved in smuggling range from family members who have made a few trips and are now helping other families - sometimes charging a fee for their services - to professional smugglers who do it full time.more »»»
The War for Latinos
 Roberto Lovato
For a Pentagon stretched by stagnating enlistments and an Administration bent on waging a "global war on terror," the question of whether this four-foot-eleven Mexican-born legal resident and others like her will decide to join the military has enormous geopolitical implications.more »»»
Despite Hardship, Patriotism Still Thriving
 Wire services
As hundreds of thousands of Mexicans fill the streets today to celebrate Mexico's independence day, their motivation for waving green, white and red flags will be far different than in the US, where the mood is often tied to a fight for victory and being No. 1. But in Mexico, globally recognized triumphs are few.more »»»
Katrina Aftermath goes Deeper than Excuses given by President Bush
 Prensa Latina
Reports on long-term effects on people living in states affected by hurricane Katrina and on the United States economy as a whole, nullify President George W. Bush´s assumed responsibility for Federal negligence in this tragedy.more »»»
"Incredible" Shrinking Presidency
 Mel Goodman
Over the past three years, we have been watching the gradual unraveling of the integrity and credibility of President Bush and his entire administration. In the winter of 2002-2003, there was the calculated misuse of intelligence collection and analysis to justify the invasion of Iraq, the first preemptive war in the history of the United State.more »»»
Remembering Sept. 16 and Mexican Americans
 Susan Guerrero
My grandfather often spoke to me of the old-fashioned knock-down, bang-up Sept. 16ths of his boyhood, when every town in the Arizona Territory shut down and everybody celebrated, Mexican and Anglo, just like on the Fourth of July.more »»»
Hiding Bodies Won't Hide the Truth
 Terry M. Neal
Echoing a Defense Department policy banning the photographing of flag-draped coffins of American troops, representatives from the much-maligned Federal Emergency Management Agency said this week that it didn't want journalists to accompany rescue boats as they went out to search for storm victims.more »»»
What Kind of Extremist Will You Be?
 Cindy Sheehan
I will be the kind of extremist who believes that the people of Iraq can rebuild their own country without the dangerous "help" of the American military presence, and I will be the kind of extremist who strives to bring our kids home from the Middle East immediately.more »»»
Retiring Mexican Immigrants Raise Questions
 Eduardo Porter & Elisabeth Malkin
While much of the attention remains on the persistent inflow of illegal workers, a new question is beginning to worry some analysts and policy-makers on both sides of the border: What will happen when the 10 million Mexicans living in the US become too old to work?more »»»
The City Where the Dead Are Left Lying on the Streets
 Andrew Buncombe
In a makeshift grave on the streets of New Orleans lies the body of Vera Smith. She was an ordinary woman who died because she was poor. Abandoned to her fate as the waters rose around her, Vera's tragedy symbolises the great divide in America today.more »»»
Might a Mexican National Guard Be an Answer?
 Barnard R. Thompson
Mexican President Vicente Fox delivered his State of the Nation Address before Congress on September 1, a speech that seemed at times more like a summary of Mexico-according-to-Fox than reality. Even so, with respect to rampant crime and violence in parts of the country, and certain shortcomings in law and order, Fox was candid.more »»»
What Happens to a Race Deferred
 Jason DeParle
The white people got out. Most of them, anyway. If television and newspaper images can be deemed a statistical sample, it was mostly black people who were left behind. Poor black people, growing more hungry, sick and frightened by the hour as faraway officials counseled patience and warned that rescues take time.more »»»
Wake of the Flood
 William Rivers Pitt
Actions have consequences. What you see on your television today is not some wild accident, but is a disaster that could have been averted had the priorities of this government been more in line with the needs of the people it pretends to serve.more »»»
The Changing Face of Presidential Campaigns in Mexico
 Carlos Luken
Mexico’s presidential race has started prematurely, with the nation’s three major parties beginning their awkward campaigns simultaneously and in many of the same cities.more »»»
US Market Rate Home Loans Elude Hispanics
 Binyamin Appelbaum
Hispanics also struggled to get market-rate home purchase loans last year. The largest lenders charged Hispanics a high interest rate twice as often as whites, with the largest disparities in California and the Southwest, and in New England and the Northeast.more »»»
Here's the Funny Part
 William Rivers Pitt
Sometimes you just have to laugh when an entire nation takes seeming leave of its senses, when the appalling becomes the mundane, when normally level-headed people lose the capacity to be shocked.more »»»
Mexican Politicians Face Challenge in U.S.
 S. Lynne Walker
Manuel Espino looked at a sea of empty chairs in the South Gate High School auditorium and contemplated the magnitude of the challenge facing Mexico's political parties. Espino came to this city bordering Los Angeles to court Mexicans who recently won the right to cast absentee ballots in next year's presidential election.more »»»
Latin American Leaders Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro Provoke Love and Hate in the Region
 Vanessa Arrington
They've been called dictators and terrorists by the United States and blamed for brewing trouble throughout Latin America. But Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his Cuban counterpart, Fidel Castro, insist they represent peace and progress and that Washington's wrath cannot halt their march to help the region's poor.more »»»
Summer of Our Discontent
 Paul Krugman
The administration and some political commentators seem genuinely puzzled by polls showing that Americans are unhappy about the economy. After all, they point out, numbers like the growth rate of GDP look pretty good.
So why aren't people cheering?more »»»
Truth-Telling on Race? Not in Bush's Fantasyland
 Bob Herbert
The Bush administration has punished a Justice Department official who dared to tell even a mild truth about racial profiling by law enforcement officers in this country.more »»»
Why Pat Robertson's Statements Help Hugo Chavez
 Tim Padgett
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has a new best friend this morning: television evangelist Pat Robertson. With his astonishing call for the left-wing leader's assassination last night - "I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it...We have the ability to take him out" - Robertson will have surely made Chavez an even more popular anti-yanqui icon in Venezuela, Latin America and around the world.more »»»
Politicized Scholars Put Evolution on the Defensive
 Jodi Wilgoren
When President Bush plunged into the debate over the teaching of evolution this month, saying, "both sides ought to be properly taught," he seemed to be reading from the playbook of the Discovery Institute, the conservative think tank that is at the helm of this newly volatile frontier in the nation's culture wars.more »»»
Bush Won't Answer Cindy, But Has to Answer Congress
 David Swanson
Were the reasons Bush gave Congress for why the war was necessary truthful ones? What did Bush tell Tony Blair three and a half years ago when he invited him, unlike Cindy, in out of the Texas sun?more »»»
Pro-War Folks' Attacks Show Desperation
 John Nichols
While debating conservative pundit David Horowitz on Ron Reagan's MSNBC show the other night, I was struck by the desperation with which supporters of the war have turned their fury on Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq who has been trying to get an audience with President Bush.more »»»
The Zapatistas: Betrayal and Autonomy
 Fred Rosen
On Saturday, August 6, to the consternation of most of the habitués of the Mexican left, the spokesperson of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), Subcomandante Marcos, turned his biting verbal fury against the aboveground political group that probably contains more of his admirers and supporters than any other, the leftleaning Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).more »»»
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