by Luis Clemente | Jan 17, 2015 | Politics & Law
{Published on Dateline: Latin America, January 6, 2015} I am not a listener or a visitor of “Democracy Now!,” but I know about the views of co-host Amy Goodman, having had the chance of reading some of her columns on the Athens News during a past life of mine in...
by Luis Clemente | Jan 3, 2015 | Politics & Law
{Published on Dateline: America} Like sports, strange things happen sometimes in politics. Virtually no one expected events like peace between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, the fall of the Soviet Bloc or the Arab Spring. Or this. Back in January, when...
by Luis Clemente | Dec 13, 2014 | Politics & Law
I will confess that I have been very surprised with Uruguay’s outgoing president, José “Pepe” Mujica. In contrast to the typical head of state and/or government, Mujica has been an obvious outlier, commuting to office in his VW Beetle, brewing his own coffee, refusing...
by Luis Clemente | Nov 29, 2014 | Politics & Law
{Cross-published from Dateline: America} It took months for President Obama to honor his word of doing something on his own to reform American immigration policy, but he did do something in the end. In what is unquestionably the “make or break” moment of his last two...
by Luis Clemente | Aug 2, 2014 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
The crisis at the southern border continues unabated, without an apparent resolution and with Congress about to recess for the summer and get into high gear afterwards for the November midterms. The politicking around the wave of unaccompanied minors reaching the US...
