The Shoplifting Blues
There are many blue city district attorneys who don’t think that shoplifting is worth arresting the culprit
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As Victoria’s Secret Goes Woke, Shareholders Go Broke
Yes, sell what your customers want and you won’t go woke and broke
Read moreThe View from the North: Ill Tidings South of the Border
OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Down Mexico way, a recent Reforma newspaper story is causing a lot of commotion and major concern. The original story was published in Spanish, but Pulse News Mexico published an analysis in English. It’s bad news, to say the least. As Pulse News Mexico’s Mark Lorenzana wrote: “The U.S. government has evidence that allegedly links members
Read moreThe View from the North: Go South, Young Man
OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Back in 1850, the New York Tribune’s Horace Greeley famously quipped (or maybe not, since there is still a debate as to whether the accreditation to him is valid), “Go West, young man,” encouraging down-and-out factory workers to seek out the fertile farmland of the west for the opportunity to succeed and seek a better
Read moreThe View from the North: AMLO’s Problematic Guest from Cuba
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. During my time in Mexico years ago, I had lunch once with a Mexican businessman and asked him about his country’s relationship with Fidel Castro’s Cuba. I asked him what’s the big deal? What does Mexico get out of it? He answered by saying that Mexican-Cuban relations are about keeping the left wing protestors in the
Read moreThe View from the North: Time for a Pinochet-Style Vote in Cuba
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Back in 1988, General Augusto Pinochet had run Chile for 15 years. He had overthrown the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende in a controversial military coup in 1973 that gained international condemnation but was little understood by the outside world. Allende’s three-year presidency led to an extended period of social unrest and political tension
Read moreThe View from the North: AMLO’s Midterm Election Blues
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Mexico held its largest midterm elections in history on Sunday, June 6, and the results weren’t great news for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). While his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) did gain political territory by winning 11 or 15 governorships up for grabs, the party lost large swathes of ground in Mexico City and
Read moreThe View from the North: When You Lose the Dallas Morning News…
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. The Dallas Morning News once supported Republicans, like Governor Mitt Romney in 2002, and, of course, President George W. Bush, President George Bush and President Ronald Reagan. But in 2016, it went for Hillary Clinton, and then in 2018 for Beto O’Rourke. On Wednesday, March 24, its editorial page addressed the border issue this way: “President
Read moreThe View from the North: Jacobson Helps to Stir the Pot
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden sent Roberta Jacobson, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and now-Biden “border czar,” to Mexico on Tuesday, March 23. I guess that the delegation’s main topic of discussion was the current border “challenge.” Remember how well Roberta’s last big venture turned out? She negotiated the reopening of diplomatic relations with Cuba. We remember
Read moreThe View from the North: Chaos at the Border
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. It was refreshing to hear Texas Governor Greg Abbott of Texas challenge the chaos (and lawlessness) at the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend. The situation has gone way beyond a debate over unaccompanied kids on the border. It is now about encouraging criminal elements in Mexico to come north, as the governor said in an interview
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