Posts Tagged ‘ Mexico ’

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(NYTIMES) – One product from this border town, though, trumps all others in terms of shock value: death in a bottle, a liquid more potent than even the strongest tequila. The drug, pentobarbital, literally takes a person’s breath away. It can kill by putting people to sleep, and it is tightly regulated in most...
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San Diego - If there’s pain at the pump in the U.S., Mexico may just have a remedy. A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in San Diego retails for an average price of $4.61 a gallon. A few miles south, in Tijuana, it’s about $2.54 — even less if you pay in pesos. The...
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(HT: Carpe Diem) If NAFTA is so terrible, why is it that more U.S. jobs have been created in the 14-year period after NAFTA was passed than in the 14-year period before NAFTA? There is a great editorial in the WSJ comparing the effects of NAFTA on Texas & Ohio. Texas has gained 36,000...
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Rich Lowry wrote a great article debunking the rhetoric Obama has been using the past few weeks criticizing NAFTA. For Barack Obama, hope can triumph over anything, except for open trade with a neighboring country with an economy 1/20th the size of ours. Then, all is despair. Obama’s culprit is Mexico, our third-largest trading...
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In December of last year, Felipe Calderon (PAN) became President of Mexico after narrowly defeating the left of center candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (PRD) in the July 2006 election. Four months after the July election, in the midst of electoral chaos, Lopez Obrador declared himself president and even established a “shadow government.” Despite...
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