Vaya con dios.....maybe

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Joined February 2010
I am always amazed at how poor Honduras is. xitter.cf/ChristianDCHn/status/2…
Felicidades @eehercules y @RobertoLagos, lo lograron. Honduras es primer lugar en pobreza de todos los países en hispanoamérica. @IMFNews
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The average Mexican in 1990 had the private goods and public services that the average Indian has today. Unsurprisingly, India lags Mexico on several metrics like infant mortality rate by 23-26 years.
I love India but this is simply not true. Mexico is an upper middle income country with $14,000 GDP per capita while India is $3,000. This is reflected in the material conditions and availability of public services and infrastructure. I went to one of the poorest parts of Mexico (Oaxaca) in 2012. This is their equivalent of Bihar. The streets were clean and municipal services and enforcement (against things like encroachment) was robust. That being said, violent crime in India is several orders of magnitude lower than Mexico. Most foreigner tourists could walk through an Indian favela equivalent with no credible threat to their safety.
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Economic might is an unbeatable foreign policy.
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Mao Zedong is under any single social metric a dictator. Not a single popular election, single government party and lifetime leadership. Not even taking into account the millions of deaths under his reign. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong
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I have never used DoorDash, and I am not alone: the median US household in every single age group spends $0 per year on food delivery (source: Fed SCF)
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Brasil es ese país donde pueblitos de 60 mil habitantes parecen metrópolis de cientos de miles de personas. Mientras que México es el país donde ciudades de millones de habitantes parecen pueblitos de 60 mil.
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It's just a shame that Limodio miscoded the treatment period to include the month before Ramadhan rather than the month after. The result disappears when the period described in the text is used. The curse of the slop five strikes again.
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The biggest culture shock I've experienced so far is that the Apple store in Japan doesn't lock any devices to the table
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Jesus this sounds like Depeche Mode or Nine Inch Nails, it's crazy, always thought he kind of creatively stagnated in the 1970s. – at Ankara, Türkiye
re-listening to mccartney 2 and whew this is still a hit im sorry
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A country with socialised healthcare should not have a minimum pension of more than 30% of the median wage.
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Something I learned today: Korea nominal GDP growth in 2026 will be about 20% CPI inflation is 3% GDP deflator is 17%. It’s all in the price of semiconductors
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Replying to @upanizza @cesarspa1
Look at trade data, and its spillovers, from the last @IMFNews World Economic Outlook
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In the age of TV, I used to watch some fairly popular series, but in the age of podcasts I don’t listen to any of the most popular ones
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México 🤷‍♂️
Esto es la Ciudad de México ❤️
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Jockey Club in Argentinian Elite formation
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Seems like one implication is that per capita income is a lot better than thought?
China's population might be way smaller than even the official declining numbers show:
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Replying to @_alice_evans
@_alice_evans it is become more apparent that large parts of Latin American was largely settled by losing side of Reconquista/Conquest
During the reconquista, the southern parts of Iberia were largely repopulated by incoming Northern Iberians, which resulted in modern Southern Iberians having *less* North African ancestry and more IA Iberian ancestry than pre-Islamic Roman-era Southern Iberians
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🇺🇸 Los Angeles, United States, has its own consular corridor along Wilshire Boulevard. Many countries share office towers between Westwood and Koreatown. The map shows 75 countries and entities, with more distant offices outside the frame.
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Argentinian Rules
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