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Tag Archives: Arab League Observer mission
Beauty and the beast: Miss Bala and Mexico’s drug war
I’ve just watched Mexican director Gerardo Naranjo’s superb thriller Miss Bala: the bullet queen (2011). It’s the searing and utterly tragic tale of Laura Guerrero, a young woman from a poor family in Baja California, who enters a beauty … Continue reading
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Tagged Arab League Observer mission, Laura Zuniga, Mexico, war on drugs
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Democrats of the world unite!
Yesterday’s General Assembly resolution against Syria was accompanied by some quite stirring and lofty rhetoric from Western politicians. There was U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice defending a tweet condemning Saturday’s veto of a similar resolution by … Continue reading