’68

Finished this book a week ago, called ’68 by Paco Ignacio Taibo II, translated by my pal Donald Nicholson-Smith. It’s a great read, rather short, very subjective in the best sense of it, and tells the compelling story of 1968 in Mexico City as the student movement erupted in the face of the one-party state.

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Bolivians in El Alto persist

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Death Squad Summer Camp 2005!

Billmon does a nice job of referencing this heinous new development… we anticipated this as soon as we heard Negroponte was the new “ambassador” to Iraq, and made this back cover to the new Processed World . Concentration camps, death squads, and our pleasant lives go on as though nothing’s wrong…

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