OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Down in Mexico, the word is “homicides.” Unfortunately, there are too many of them. This is from Alfredo Corchado of the Dallas Morning News: “As of Thursday, Aug. 18, 128,923 homicides had been registered under (President Andrés Manuel) López Obrador (AMLO), with more than two years left in his term, which ends in December 2024. This
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. It only took one year and the new Afghanistan looks a lot like the bad old days in Afghanistan. This is from the BBC: “In the year since the Taliban returned to power, it has issued various orders restricting the freedom of women — barring them from most government jobs, secondary education and from travelling
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. “Tijuana Taxi” was one of my favorite tunes by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, or “Los Tijuanas,” as my late mother called them. But nobody is taking a taxi down in Tijuana these days. In fact, they are setting them on fire, as we see in this Fox News report: “Hundreds of Mexican troops arrived
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Am I happy that Latin American nations are electing leftists? Of course not, but it may turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Down in Chile, leftist President Gabriel Boric, who came to power in March of this year, is already struggling in the polls. He is learning that changing a country’s constitution is
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Years ago, my mother got a letter from her sister in Cuba complaining about the lack of food. and especially seafood. So my mother said to her Cuban friend, “Can you believe that? No fish in Cuba.” And her friend said, “How can that be? It’s an island. I remember going fishing and catching everything.” And
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OPINION By SILVO CANTO, JR. They say, when life give you lemons, make lemonade. The phrase is intended to inspire optimism or crank up a positive attitude in the face of adversity. Well, my take on that expression is when life gives you a quote from CNN commentator Don Lemmon, just look the other way or turn off the TV like a
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By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As you may, ultra-Democrat George Soros, founder and head of the Open Societies Foundations, has been grabbing headlines in south Florida. As reported in the Independent Journalist Review (IJR), he and his liberal friends have decided to adapt an if-you-can’t-beat-them-buy-them approach to fighting off a growing Republican wave. “It’s safe to say that Democrats have noticed
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. A couple of nights ago, I got a taste of what politics in Colombia is all about these days. A 40-something Colombian lady in my class said she was worried about her country going to the left. Another young woman from Colombia had a smile on her face that reminded me of the Barack
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OPINION By SILVIO CANTO, JR. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has repeatedly taken swipes at Cuban-American Senators Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Bob Menéndez during his regular press conferences this month, piling on from criticism lobbed by him at the three in the past. López Obrador has accused the three senators, along with other Cubans living in the
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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
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