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Noting the recent arrival of American restaurants like Chilis and Starbucks, Ocho Cuartos is still a bit surprised to hear that IHOP, or International House of Pancakes, will be making its debut [ES] in the upscale Monterrey neighborhood of San Pedro.
Writing from Cochabamba, Jim Shultz reports that soldiers are maintaining at least a façade of calm while Bolivia Rising translates an article from La Razón about demands from El Alto for the immediate resignations of Cochabamba Prefect Manfred Reyes Villa and La Paz Prefect Jose Luis Paredes.
Chileno points his sarcastic pen first at a man who burned himself alive (only to jump into a nearby fountain) and then the Chilean telecommunications monopoly, Telefónica.
“In early December, shortly after President Álvaro Uribe confined most of Colombia's paramilitary leadership in a maximum-security prison, an article in El Tiempo, the country's most-circulated newspaper, contended that the paramilitaries had one 'secret weapon' left. If they felt they were getting a bad deal out of the negotiation process, they could always reveal the truth about who in Colombia's ‘legitimate' society - businessmen, landowners, military officers, politicians - had founded, financed and supported them.” Instead, it appears that the paramilitary leaders are now the ones who are threatened, writes Adam Isacson who goes on to list a calendar of developments and disappearances.
A controversial Ukrainian politician is in critical condition after a hunting accident, reports Abdymok.
White Sun of the Desert writes of an evening spent with a former captain of a nuclear submarine - and about dentistry in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
White Sun of the Desert writes in the aftermath of a recent and not-so-distant earthquake: “That you live in an earthquake zone and are a potential target for a building collapse or a tsunami are easy things to forget for a Brit, but in any case there is precious little any of us can do about it. All I can do is hope that the ground will be nice and steady during my stay on the island.”
Further Ramblings of a N.Irish Magyar writes about Catholic priests who served as informers during Hungary's Communist regime.
All About Latvia posts an update on the unresolved border dispute between Russia and Latvia.
The Turkish Invasion writes about alcoholism in Russia - and posts Soviet posters on the topic.
As they say here, Morsy is the first presidential candidate ever to run for presidency against his will, and people...
What the f***? A african man again...why people want to deleted on the worldwide Africans or Black mens?!... Really outrageous. France is maybe...
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In my opinion, the only slang from this list which is falling out of vogue is the nickname of Medvedev...
I'm from Russia, use internet daily, and I didn't know half of these words. The other slang words are not...