<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Commentary</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/americas/opinion?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><description>Commentary</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[In Mexico, Fears Of a Populist President]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10686-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10686-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  MEXICO CITY  --  The Mexican Congress voted recently to strip this city's mayor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, of his immunity from prosecution for an allegedly illegal act by his administration  --  thus endangering his expected run for president. But of course, this is not the end of the story. Lopez Obrador may well garner enough support for his cause to get on the ticket, raising this question: Is this populist mayor someone to be feared? Is he another Hugo Chavez, who will create turmoil in domestic and foreign affairs while pursuing an agenda of radical change?]]></description><author> Rossana Fuentes Berain</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greetings From Mexistan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48138-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48138-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It may be just about the most inspiring sight imaginable: hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the main square of some capital city, demanding democratic self-rule. "They're doing it in many different corners of the world," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week, "places as varied as Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan and, on the other hand, Lebanon, and rumblings in other parts of the world as well. And so this is a hopeful time."]]></description><author> Harold Meyerson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[CAFTA: In Our Interest, or Not?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42672-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42672-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Regarding Harold Meyerson's March 30 op-ed column, "CAFTA's Profit Motive":]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mexico and Mr. Lopez Obrador]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35731-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35731-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  In 2001, long before political speculation took hold of the issue ["Decision on Democracy," editorial, April 6], a legal case against Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was initiated based on a person's right in Mexico to contest unlawful actions by any government authority. A judge ordered  the city to cease construction of a road that violated the property rights of a citizen. Local authorities failed to comply with this judicial mandate.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outsourcing Torture]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48473-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48473-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Although David Ignatius tells us that torture is "immoral and illegal" and "always and everywhere wrong," he somehow manages nevertheless to justify the practice of "extraordinary rendition" [op-ed, March 9]. Can any reasonable person believe that our government is transporting suspected individuals to faraway lands simply  to more effectively interrogate them?]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Gentle Giants' and the Threats to the Seas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61647-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61647-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Feb. 20  front-page story "Gentle Giants of the Sea Return to Mexico Lagoon; Gray  Whales Were on Brink of Extinction" quoted Diane Alps of the American Cetacean Society as saying that some experts refer to whales as "canaries of the sea." The article said: "Like canaries in a coal mine, when [whales] thrive, it generally indicates healthy conditions in their environment, in this case the ocean."]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[America Needs a Voice Abroad]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54764-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54764-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   When President Bush visited Canada shortly after his reelection, thousands protested on the streets of Ottawa. In mocking reference to the fate of Saddam Hussein a year earlier, a statue-sized effigy of the president was hoisted to a rostrum above the crowd and then pulled down to loud cheers. That such things should occur in the capital of a friendly neighbor, echoing similar demonstration in capitals around the world, reveals how deep-seated anti-Americanism has come to be.]]></description><author> Leonard H. Marks, Charles Z. Wick, Bruce Gelb and Henry E. Catto</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adverse Reactions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26051-2004Dec25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26051-2004Dec25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   The safety issues involving new medications aren't limited to arthritis drugs, though they're making the headlines these days. Just a couple of years ago, millions of women taking hormone replacement therapy learned that they may have been increasing their risk of heart attack and breast cancer, and this year's news has underlined concerns about antidepressants and the risk of suicide. Here's a sampling of other drugs that may have delivered more than they promised:]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Really Early Thanks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56443-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56443-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   With due respect to Marilyn Barrueta's claim about the first Thanksgiving [letters, Dec. 5] and the Virginia Thanksgiving Festival celebrated at what is now Berkeley Plantation [front page, Nov. 25], the first Thanksgiving ceremony in North America actually was in Canada in 1578.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maple Leaf Rage?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41810-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41810-2004Dec6.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   I was born and raised a New Yorker but have  lived in Montreal for 20 years. I have never met with the vitriol and negativity described in Nora Jacobson's Nov. 28 Outlook article, "Before You Flee to Canada, Can We Talk?"]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Flawed Health Care System]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18819-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18819-2004Nov28.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Lowell Rudorfer warns that government oversight of pharmaceutical industry innovation "would kill the goose that lays the golden egg" [letters, Nov. 17]. I don't know what goose he meant, but a decade ago the U.S. pharmaceutical industry already was the subject of congressional hearings because of outlandish drug prices.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before You Flee to Canada, Can We Talk?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15638-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15638-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  TORONTO<br>I moved to Canada after the 2000 election. Although I did it mainly for career reasons -- I got a job whose description read as though it had been written precisely for my rather quirky background and interests -- at the time I found it gratifying to joke that I was leaving the...]]></description><author> Nora Jacobson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine Needs a Dose of Markets]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55678-2004Nov16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55678-2004Nov16.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   George Silver's plan for "reforming" health care ["Health Care: Beyond Markets," op-ed, Nov. 11] would kill the goose that lays the golden egg.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rhetoric and the Record on Torture]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20957-2004Oct9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20957-2004Oct9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Regarding the assertion by White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales [letters, Oct. 5] that, consistent with its obligations under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the United States does not expel individuals to countries where the United States believes it is likely that they will be tortured:]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misleading Drought]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37120-2004Sep20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37120-2004Sep20.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Sept. 15 Sports story said that "after 13 long years," Canada won the World Cup of Hockey. But that was misleading,  because since Canada won the World Cup (then the Canada Cup) in 1991 only one other World Cup has been played (in 1996).]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Import Prescription Drugs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34035-2004Aug25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34035-2004Aug25.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Allowing imported drugs from Canada, as the Montgomery County Council is considering, is a potentially dangerous decision   based on politics and economics rather than on established pharmaceutical best practices [letters, Aug. 7].]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambivalence Toward Free Trade]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17274-2004Aug19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17274-2004Aug19.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In complaining that John F. Kerry is  "ambivalent" about foreign trade ["Trade and the Honest Candidate," op-ed, Aug. 2], Sebastian Mallaby said that because the manufacturing trade deficit accounts for only four of the 10 percentage points by which manfacturing's share of  gross domestic product has dropped since 1970, it is not the major cause of industrial job losses. But 40 percent of any major public problem is hardly trivial.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignoring History In Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9781-2004Aug17.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9781-2004Aug17.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On Oct. 23, just 10 days before the election, the war in Iraq will have lasted as long as the 584-day U.S. involvement in World War I, from the April 6, 1917, declaration of war to the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice. And probably in late September or early October the number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq will pass 1,000.]]></description><author> George F. Will</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Feith's Surprising Proposal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3890-2004Aug15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3890-2004Aug15.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Regarding the Aug. 7 op-ed column "A War  Plan That Cast a Wide Net":]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Gap In Terror Defenses]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40017-2004Jul9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40017-2004Jul9.html?nav=rss_world/americas/opinion</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:13:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  On May 27, a Honduran Internet cafe owner spotted alleged al Qaeda terrorist Adnan G. El Shukrijumah in Tegucigalpa. The cafe owner recognized him from a photograph published in a local newspaper the day after the FBI issued a worldwide alert for Shukrijumah and six others said to pose a "real and present danger" to the United States.]]></description><author> Marcela Sanchez</author></item></channel></rss>