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2007-01-19 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-19 13:48|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Then let them eat sopapias!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-19 13:59|| 2007-01-19 13:59|| Front Page Top

#2 U.S. ethanol plants use 20% of the total corn crop. 25% next year at current trends. Great boon for farmers. Price has risen from a little over $2/bushel Jan. 2006 to $4.

Posted by ed 2007-01-19 14:09|| 2007-01-19 14:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Drat it, Darth Vader had my exact suggestion!

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-19 14:33|| 2007-01-19 14:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe they should institute a stratetic tortilla reserve for the tough times when corn prices go high.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-19 15:03|| 2007-01-19 15:03|| Front Page Top

#5 I like the creative way that they got to blame at least some of it on America. Bravo!

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-01-19 15:24|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2007-01-19 15:24|| Front Page Top

#6 A boon for farmers, ed, but for people like me feeding livestock the higher price for feed will drive up the price for dead animal flesh at the grocery store. I don't particulary like subsidizing the ethanol industry.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-01-19 16:08|| 2007-01-19 16:08|| Front Page Top

#7 I prefer harina (wheat) tortillas. Most of the campesinos, though, do indeed prefer the maiz (corn) variety.

Posted by borgboy 2007-01-19 16:55|| 2007-01-19 16:55|| Front Page Top

#8 We will apply the law with firmness and punish those who take advantage of people's need.

Isn't that precisely the opposite of what Adam Smith would describe as leading to the Wealth of Nations? And this is the more conservative candidate who won the election. And it's all the fault of gringo farmers?

PUHLEEEEEEEEEEEZ

Posted by Grack Whaitle3696 2007-01-19 16:58|| 2007-01-19 16:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Interesting to note that none of the proposed solutions involved educating the population and reforming the economic and legal systems so that people could make a decent living and afford to buy food at market prices.

Posted by DoDo 2007-01-19 18:05|| 2007-01-19 18:05|| Front Page Top

#10 Because, DoDo, that would cut against the economic interests of the 40 Families, and no Mexican politician will do that - end of the graft if they do.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2007-01-19 18:14|| 2007-01-19 18:14|| Front Page Top

#11 Since when does the Mexican govt. give a rat's ass about the people's needs?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-19 18:15|| 2007-01-19 18:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Look for the drug runners into the US to grab a back pack full of corn. That will help pay the transport cost and sure beats dead-heading!!!

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-01-19 23:26|| 2007-01-19 23:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Goes to the very soul + identity of the Nation + locals - its akin to telling Frenchies Wine + Escargots, or for Germans Sauerkraut + Sausages, ...etal. cultures is now forbidden. Telling the Frenchies they can't surrender, or the Germans they can't attack - its just not done.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-19 23:45|| 2007-01-19 23:45|| Front Page Top

#14 bigjim-ky, they don't. But they *do* care about their jobs and keeping their pretty little heads on their pretty little necks....

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-01-19 23:52|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2007-01-19 23:52|| Front Page Top

#15 "Mexico At Risk For Tortilla Unrest"

Where else but at Rantburg could you find that headline?

Tortilla unrest?

*snort*

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-01-19 23:55|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-01-19 23:55|| Front Page Top

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