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I wish the New Yorker article had full digital text, but here's an NYTimes editorial that leaves out the parts where if you criticize him, according to the New Yorker, he will 1) arrest you for disorderly conduct 2) stage a midnight raid on your home and 3) if you know anything about conditions in his jails, you know that being arrested by him is actually taking a chance on either dying of dehydration or being beaten to death by his goons before you go to trial.

I've been following the Honduran situation as closely as possible from here, and my contact-to-contacts-on-the-ground is talking about sending a delegation of "observers", i.e. Americans to stand there in case something happens so it will make the US newspapers. But I have to say that the way things are going down in Honduras so far is very 21st-century (negotiations and dispersed police brutality of the confused sort), while what's happening in freaking Arizona really starts to look like Olancho in the 70s.

Yes, everyone cares about my incisive political blogging. I will post about Draco Malfoy later, I promise.