The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power.

An essential part of the magic involves turning everyone into an enemy, to ward off surprises.

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

So, you know, I always say that I'm a Mexican, but if I had to be a citizen of anywhere else, I'd be a citizen of Manhattan. I feel very much a New Yorker.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.