Wednesday, February 10, 2010

News roundup (we scratch the mosquito bites that others fear to scratch)


Tremble with fear, Crazy Canucks! The Mexico Winter Olympics team is in da house and ready to swoop away ALL your gold medals. The superlative Mexfiles has all the details (today's must see link).

Shock! Miss Colombia refuses nose job! Colombia Reports tells all.

There were 412 murders in New York City in 2009. In El Salvador, a country with roughly the same population as NYC, there were 440 murders IN THE FIRST 36 DAYS OF 2010. Jeesh...Tims' El Salvador blog has that stat and plenty more details about the heavy crimewave in ElSal right now.

In Argentina, beef prices have risen by 20% to 30% so far this year. According to Preshident Klishtina it's due to the rain and producers that are fattening up cattle, not the plain fact that farmers have abandoned cattle ranching to plant soybeans instead. But she recognizes the price hike, which according to her is due to "a law of economics". Welcome to the world of stupid, Clarin with the details.