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La Bestia's victims and the desperate quest to reach North America 27 Aug 2013 | 02:19 am
I’ve written about how desperate Hondurans are to make it to North America, about the risks they take, including riding La Bestia, a freight line through Mexico. Early yesterday morning, the train de...
Desperate people, Canadian dreams and the lowest kind of predators 1 Aug 2013 | 11:36 pm
Backpacks ready for a trip to Canada that won't happen Heartbreaking photo in La Prensa this week of devastated campesinos who had showed up in Santa Rosa de Copan expecting to start a trip that woul...
'Nini' youth - not in school, not working - symptom of a failing country 31 Jul 2013 | 02:03 am
Parents have to buy uniforms; government doesn't have to buy desks You know a problem has become critical when it gets a snappy name. Like the “ninis” in Honduras, young people who “ni trabaja ni es...
Razor wire, guns and crime: Judging risk in the big city 23 Jul 2013 | 12:15 am
Spent the weekend in Tegucigalpa, which almost always gets me thinking about crime in Honduras. It’s hard to avoid. The small hotel we use is in a nice residential area. The architecture is quite int...
A smarter way to deal with Honduran migrants 15 Jul 2013 | 07:52 pm
The flood of Hondurans trying to make it to the United States has become crazy. Honduras is opening a diplomatic office in the border city of McAllen, Texas, joining Guatemala and Mexico in trying to...
How to save newspapers 11 Jul 2013 | 03:49 am
I’ve painted a grim future for newspapers in the last few posts. So what can be done? One option for companies is to cash out. Cut costs, raise rates, make as much as possible for and then sell the ...
How I killed newspapers, Part Three: The bad news 8 Jul 2013 | 06:29 am
Newspapers will find a way out of these bleak times, some journalists maintain. Here’s hoping. But the situation is grim and there’s no clear path to a viable future. I like newspapers and believe ....
How I killed newspapers, Part Two 5 Jul 2013 | 03:03 am
OK, I didn’t really kill newspapers. But my career began when newspapers were doing extraordinarily well, and continued as they did less and less well. For much of the time, I was in newspaper manage...
How I killed newspapers: Part One 4 Jul 2013 | 04:47 pm
Found myself in a lively Twitter exchange today about the future of newspapers, sparked in part by Postmedia’s grisly quarterly report. Things look bleak for most newspapers. Postmedia is Canada's la...
Where have all those post-Olympic tourists gone? 3 Jul 2013 | 04:16 am
The mass protests in Brazil are big news down here. In part, Brazilians are mad that the government is spending billions to host the World Cup and the Olympics, and don’t buy promises of economic bene...
