The January 2007 “Tortilla Riots” in Mexico. Really?
I’ve been biting my tongue (or restraining my fingers) for months now. But yesterday an article in the New York Times once again took the protests in Mexico City against…
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I’m writing this partly because I’ve now been blogging for about six months and it seemed time to take stock, partly because of Ji Young’s three long commentaries on posts…
Read moreSoy and Politics in Argentina: An Interesting and Important Case in Various Ways
What happened A week or so ago I posted on the protests in Buenos Aires. Farmers, enraged by a new export tax on grains that meant that they would be…
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