Tag: Nicaragua

  • Tim Kaine’s Unlikely Biography

    Tim Kaine’s Unlikely Biography

    Tim Kaine isn’t shy about trading on his year in Honduras as a Catholic missionary. Accepting the V.P. nomination, he said, “My faith  is my North Star for orienting my life.” He had gone to a Jesuit high school, he explained, with the motto “men for others.” It led him to volunteer as a missionary…

  • Mexico’s Narco Televisa Scandal: The Impunity of the Elite

    Even as he prepares to take office in a month, a mushrooming scandal in Mexico threatens that country’s new President, Enrique Pena Nieto.  Some call it Mexico’s Watergate; the comparison might even be apt.  Like Watergate—which picked up momentum only after Richard Nixon had won the ’72 Presidential election—the Narco Televisa Scandal is heating up…

  • Mexico’s new President owes election to “Narco-Televisa”

    In the Drug War, where producing confusion is as important as churning out ‘product,’ there are more versions of the truth than in the Japanese film classic Rashomon. Even so, the shocking new scandal breaking in Nicaragua makes it clear that the most accurate way to describe Mexico’s new President-elect is as  “Senor Narco-Presidente.”