Monthly Archives: February 2014

Fair wages and educator-led education are two of the major points of contention, said Patricia Schechter, a history professor and union officer. Educator-led education means allowing faculty have more control over university decisions, such as which classes to offer or … Continue reading →

After herding the female students into a classroom, Islamist militants from the group Boko Haram fatally burned or shot dozens of male students in an attack late Monday on a state college in northeastern Nigeria, officials said on Tuesday. It … Continue reading →

Fredy Massamba – Nkembo (Clip Officiel)

From my colleague, friend and neighbor… highly recommended! From Stanford University Press: Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies “Aliabad.” Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of … Continue reading →

This article by Franklin Nyamsi and some preceding back and forth, lays out the case very plainly… Clearly Blaise hopes to make a good argument for another term.  He’d rather win on the argument, but given his history I am … Continue reading →

Nobody really knows… Four “eminent personalities” (one the brief and ineffective interim president Jean-Baptiste Ouedraogo who served in the interregnum in 1982-83, the other three religious leaders, one of whom has already resigned) came forth to organize talks between re-energized … Continue reading →

Alphonse Bonou and others had started a political party that appeared to be catering to Bwaba voters of the southwest.  But they got totally trounced by the CDP in the elections of 2012.  Now many of the party organizers have … Continue reading →

After his election to the papacy 11 months ago, Francis seemed to immediately grasp the significance of the divisions among the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics. He has chosen inclusive language, has played down the importance of following the hierarchy and … Continue reading →

I was in high school at the same time as Fortuño.  He definitely did the right things in successfully shrinking government and correcting spending.  But if I had known he was ideologically libertarian, rather than a committed pragmatist, I think … Continue reading →

Standard & Poor’s downgraded the debt of Puerto Rico to junk status on Tuesday, intensifying a cash squeeze for the commonwealth, whose financial condition is of outsize importance to the rest of the United States because its debt is widely … Continue reading →

The lyrics are here.

S&P cut a slew of Puerto Rico bonds to junk territory ahead of a press conference by Gov. Padilla today after the market closes, according to the rating agency’s website. via Reorg Research Intelligence Alert

I am teaching Econ 3, our introduction to international economics and development here at Santa Clara University.  I had a student in office hours today. She had spent last quarter in El Salvador on Santa Clara’s Casa de la Solidaridad … Continue reading →