Gancho

Blog about sports and politics and whatever else seems interesting from a guy (formerly) in Mexico.

Friday, October 19, 2012

La Maestra Leading the SEP?

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I've been paying more attention to non-Mexico topics lately, thanks to The Man, but I did see earlier this week that Leo Zuckermann toss...
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Monday, October 1, 2012

Messi Speaks

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Interesting interview here with El Pais . Highlights: P. ¿Cuál es el partido contra el Madrid que más recuerda? R. Recuerdo todos los ...
Saturday, September 29, 2012

Very True

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Will Leitch makes a point that is so obvious that it hardly bears mentioning, yet sadly it is: We have a Today -show culture that covers ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Romney versus Obama, Everywhere

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This was taken from Milenio just a few seconds ago:
Sunday, September 23, 2012

Two Takes on Barça

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The first: this team has 15 points in five games, despite playing really well just twice, and playing outright poorly twice. (The Valencia g...

Violence Is Not on the Rise

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Alejandro Hope makes that case here . He makes a lot of points worth reading, if you speak Spanish and are in the middle for some technical ...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

Time for Cesc to Earn His Fee

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No Iniesta against Getafe, and Messi starts on the bench. This will be interesting, but something tells they'll pull it out. It just mak...
Thursday, September 13, 2012

Coss is Caught

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Mexican Marines captured Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez, leader of the Gulf Cartel, in Tampico yesterday. He looks appropriately unhappy, u...
Saturday, September 8, 2012

The Future of the Left: More of the Same

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This week, Bajo Reserva published a column on Ebrard's definitive break with AMLO: LO SIGUIÓ durante una década, le pagó con creces e...
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Cross-Ideological Similarities

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Here I examine an unfortunate similarity between the GOP and the AMLO wing of the PRD: Con esto en mente, yo diría que mis preferencias p...
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Getting out of the Game

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I have a new piece about an interesting new study here : The factors they uncover are not particularly surprising, but though they may ...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Madrid Deals

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Real Madrid's big-spending path to trophies is an easy target for teasing and distaste. There's a lot that's worrisome about i...
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New Material

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Here a couple of pieces of mine from last week on Honduras and El Salvador . I am broadening my horizons ever so gently. And temporarily: h...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

This Is Kinda Funny

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Hopefully the Bimbo bread somehow translates into an end of the poor road form. Also, this was a good piece from Michael Cox about Rada...
Thursday, August 23, 2012

Peña Nieto's Reforms

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Leo Zuckermann has a column about the reforms that Peña Nieto will be pursuing, and this portion seems particularly worrying: Todo indica...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Chasing Chapo

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Here 's my skeptical take on the Pentagon's efforts to send a Seal team after Chapo Guzmán. Highlights: Lo más importante es que, ...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012

A Red Flag

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I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this element of the Proceso piece on the Pentagon's plans to send a SEAL team for Chapo, and I...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

Chicharito Should Be One Angry Little Pea

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It's ironic that this is the picture accompanying many of the Van Persie articles this summer, because, my, he is emphatically not a y...

Stuff I've Written, Others Have Written

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Here are my last two posts from Este País: one responding to Paul Ryan being named to the Romney ticket, another about the middle finger t...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Footballing Ego

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Alexander Netherton has a new column about the growing importance of ego and selfishness in European soccer, which promises a lot because i...
Friday, August 10, 2012

For the Gold!

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Last year, as Mexico prepared to face off against the US in the Gold Cup final, I wrote : Of course, the defeated opponents named above ...
Thursday, August 2, 2012

On the Zetas' Future

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Alejandro Hope had a post on the rumors of a split between the two principal Zetas bosses earlier this week, which is, as always, worth you...

Duopoly Safe

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I met someone from Málaga this summer, and I congratulated him (audibly) on the upward trajectory of his hometown club and myself (silently)...
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