One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

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

Talking in one language and talking in another, I think inevitably, produce two different personalities, as far as I've seen in other people. I assume it does the same for me.

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

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.