Category Archives: Latin America

BRIC City

My new favorite news source, Global Post, has an interesting story about the rising economic powers, the BRICs.  (That stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China for those of you who don’t care for the kinds of silly acronyms to … Continue reading

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Filed under Asia, Economy, Latin America

Constitutional conventions

Did it ever occur to you that there are people whose job it is to write constitutions?  Well such a thing exists.  According to the Washington Post, a group of Spanish constitutional scholars have been instrumental in the latest round … Continue reading

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Change Brazil Believed In

My dad sent me this story the other day with a note attached saying that he hopes Obama will be the North American Lula.  I’m not exactly sure what he meant by that because I don’t think my dad is … Continue reading

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