“Ingrid Betancourt Is Rescued”

Rescatada Ingrid Betancourt: an online “extra, extra, read all about it from EL TIEMPO (Bogotá), with the announcement by Defense Minister Santos posted to You Tube.
(The Santos family owns EL TIEMPO. Uribe’s vice president is also a Santos.)
El Espectador has the story of the military operation that also rescued three American [...]

Death and Taxes In Old Sambodia: Brazil Meets The Breathalyser

The first time I saw 300-proof Fogo Paulista for sale in a gas station convenience store here in São Paulo, I realized that I was not in Kansas (or more to the point, Utah) anymore.
A humorous column from a not especially talented contributor to Bem Paraná (Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil) nevertheless captures something essential about the [...]