Results tagged “centralamerica”

Got the feeling, power steering, Pistons popping, aint no stopping now! Panama, panama Panama, panama Now that the movie Superbad has revived Van Halen's song "Panama," it might be appropriate for Mayor Menino to upload the track to his iPod for his upcoming trip to Central America. The Mayor has managed to finagle his way into a trip with Carlos Gutierrez, the nation's secretary of commerce, to explore business opportunities in the region. He will...

Yes, the headlining phrase is really trademarked. Bostonist hopes that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration takes this as a public service and won’t rip on our use of their copyrighted phrase. Four years ago after losing a dear friend to a rip current in Central America Bostonist has been, well, shall we say, a little timid about even the undertow we feel in the chilly ocean waters. We really never knew it was an issue, and so few warnings are displayed, even though NOAA has an entire subdomain dedicated to ripcurrent. When the “year of the shark” attacked we thought that people in Florida were just crazy for getting up in a stir. Bostonist knew good and well that maiming is one thing, rip currents are another, more severe threat and the cause of many a fatal drowning. Bostonist is relieved to read the report that the MIT Sea Grant will be posting up some 300 signs (Bostonist assumes they’ll be just like these) at local beaches.

Mara Salvatrucha aka MS 13, one of the largest gangs in North and Central America and yesterday, 103 of its members were arrested by federal immigration officials. Triggered by fears that MS 13 may ally itself with al Qaeda in smuggling people in the US, Operation Community Shield was started. Over the past three weeks the arrests were made in Washington, Virginia, Baltimore, New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Newark, N.J. A third of the...