Casey Gierke - Instablogs
Mar 30 2009
Costa Rican President, Oscar Arias, re-established relations with Cuba in the spirit of progress. He felt that the official coldness that had characterized diplomatic relations between the two countries since 1961 had gone on long enough. With his...
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Mar 12 2009
Last week about one hundred and forty whales beached themselves and died in southern Australia. About two hundred initially beached themselves but locals were able to move about fifty of them back to the sea before they died. This is a phenomenon...
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Mar 7 2009
Carnival is a time when Brazil nearly stops. Many Brazilians work the year round to prepare for carnival. Gyms are more packed in the weeks before than any other time of year and it is seen as nearly a sin if you have to work during these days of...
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Mar 3 2009
Thomas Friedman recently told us that the world is flat. He of course was referencing the technological advances that have brought the entire world to our fingertips and knocked down the barriers that separated us in the past. If you didn’t...
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Mar 3 2009
The health care situation, among other things, has come to a point of dire need for reform. For those whose jobs provide them with health care, there is no evident problem. For the growing ranks of the unemployed, not even Obama’s new deductions...
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Mar 1 2009
For one hundred years the US military has had an operation on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Within days of taking office, President Barack Obama took steps to close the prison facility. In recent years, it has been used to hold international criminals...
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Feb 8 2009
The future of American-Latin American relations is extremely important. For the past sixty years, the US has taken a strong interest in Latin America initially as a security type buffer zone. The nature of the interest has evolved over time according...
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Oct 10 2008
Living in Chile, I have seen the US economic crisis in a number of ways. The closest I have been to it is in the community I live in, Puerto Natales, Chile. Puerto Natales, in the heart of southern Patagonia, is heavily frequented by tourists in the...
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Sep 24 2008
Brazil is the fifth biggest country in the world, both by population and by land mass. If you take Alaska away from the US, Brazil becomes the fourth biggest by land mass. In it, it has diversity like no place on earth. It is a melting pot of...
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Sep 4 2008
I have been out of the US for a while and was happy to have a chance to watch the Republican Party National Convention, even if all the speakers were muffled by the Spanish translations. I saw former New York City Mayor Rudy Guilliani and also, Vice...
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