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Jun 16, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
It’s 5am in Mexico and I’m awake to watch my beautiful home country take on France at the World Cup. Let’s hope this is worth it
Just the four saves by Matt Ryan needed in the first 8 minutes. France don’t know what hit ’em #FRAAUS
France in the ropes here. Aussies all over them. Doubt setting in. Flashbacks of 2002 and 2010 mounting. Griezmann in tears. Looking good for the Socceroos #FRAAUS
France make it to half-time. Can’t help but feel that the world’s best 19-year-old will step up and decide the game in the second half. Just gotta make sure the Aussies bring Daniel Arzani off the bench
Scandalous video refereeing. Risdon clearly touches the ball. FIFA ruining the game
HOWZAAAT
Into the final 15 minutes. Second coffee down, absolutely buzzing. Australia’s best ever World Cup performance
Sickening denouement. First Italy in ‘06, now this. France using up their luck early in the tournament. Australia looking like good candidates to get past the group

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Feb 27, 2022
Read this article about the city that Lviv is becoming. It also has some other info, which I will write in a short thread:
economist.com/europe/2022/02…
Many countries moved their embassies to Lviv earlier this month as war loomed. But they don’t think it’s safe there anymore. Four of the most important embassies to Ukraine told me they’ve relocated (again) to Poland or Moldova.
The Ukrainian cabinet is placing its ministers around different parts of the country, and outside the country, so that the government can survive even if something terrible happens in Kyiv. Many large Ukrainian companies are employing a similar plan with their board members
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Sep 26, 2020
Hi Patricia. I’m not the author of the article you quote in your thread, but a recent academic paper made a big impression on me. It looks at the responses of the Argentine, Brazilian, Colombian and Mexican governments to the pandemic and the economic crisis it has created
It estimates that before the governments’ social-spending response is taken into account, in both Brazil and Mexico around 10m people were expected to fall below the World Bank’s $5.50-a-day poverty in 2020 (see the “new poor in millions” column) Image
But the right-wing government of Brazil has begun spending generously on extra cash transfers directly to the poor to help them survive the economic crisis. It’s helping, a lot. See our article here economist.com/the-americas/2… Image
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Jul 2, 2020
Hugo López-Gatell confirms to the Washington Post what those looking at the death certificates in Mexico City already knew: the Covid-19 death toll in Mexico’s capital is several times greater than what official figures suggest washingtonpost.com/world/the_amer…
New York had 25,000 more deaths than usual during the height of the pandemic. Mexico City (where death certificates are digitised and trackable online) had 17,000 so-called “Excess Deaths” by June 7th.

The pandemic has raged on since then; the toll may be close to 25,000 by now
Looking at the death certificates, It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Mexico City’s pandemic already has been approximately as deadly and costly as New York’s.

It shouldn’t have been. The median age in New York is 38. The median age in Mexico City is 33
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Jun 5, 2020
Mexicans are in the streets decrying police brutality. But not in the name of George Floyd: they’re marching for Giovanni López, who died after police stopped him on the evening of May 4th. Today, a month later, protesters in Guadalajara marched. And it got ugly
The cases of George Floyd and Giovanni López are not the same:
— No video of López’s death (only his arrest, which does not look deadly)
— The reason for López’s arrest remains unclear
— Mexican police reports accuse López of aggression
— The police involved are still working
A political fight over the death of Giovanni López awaits. The governor of Jalisco (where it happened) is, perhaps, the president’s most visible opponent. The federal government claims that López was stopped for not wearing a mask—a Jalisco pandemic policy gob.mx/segob/prensa/s… Image
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Mar 29, 2020
As the rest of Latin America shuts its borders, the US-Mexico border “closure” is nothing of the sort. My dispatch from Tijuana in this week’s @TheEconomist economist.com/the-americas/2…
More thoughts:
A border closure has its logic. Tijuana and San Diego are neighbours—one bi-national city. Today, San Diego has 488 confirmed COVID cases. Tijuana has 10. It’s hard to tell 40m+ Californians not to shop or visit family if Mexicans can cross the border to do it
Many economists reckon border closures are pretty pointless once an outbreak is already spreading within them. @tom_nuttall goes deeper into this in the European context here economist.com/europe/2020/03…
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Mar 12, 2020
This week’s edition of @TheEconomist is a de-facto special issue on the Coronavirus. Here’s our cover story on the politics of pandemics: economist.com/leaders/2020/0…
And our leader on how the current financial turmoil is different from what happened during the Global Financial Crisis: economist.com/leaders/2020/0…
This piece breaks down the growth of the virus in the United States, and what happens from here economist.com/united-states/…
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