The here and now... and what and why

Complacency is a trap. At least that’s what I was thinking when I up and left the comfort of a Yankee prep school gig, where I taught music, amongst other things, for 28 years. There was also that life long career as a composer, musician and artist.

First, it was a year in St. Thomas, USVI, working as a reporter and shooting photography and then, a year in San Agustin Etla, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Time passed.
More time passed and a year back in the Athens of America followed by a hasty return to Oaxaca where it is all happening.
A couple of years in San Sebastian Etla and now, just down the road in San Pablo Etla. Life is good.

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Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Musician, photographer, videographer, reporter, ex-officio teacher, now attempting to be a world traveler

Saturday, June 30, 2018

Say cheese....

Vicki from Etla smiles while the trade war escalates....
From the LAHT
More than 60 American companies representing dairy farmers and cheesemakers asked United States President Donald Trump in a letter on Tuesday to suspend high steel and aluminum tariffs on Mexico until renegotiations over a regional free trade treaty is completed.

Calling Mexico the “largest and most reliable market” for American dairy products, the letter said Mexico’s retaliatory tariffs – some of which are expected to be as high as 25 percent next month – on American-made cheeses, among other products, will “certainly diminish demand for high-quality dairy products that are produced across the United States....

Mexico accounts for about one-quarter of all US dairy exports...

Allowing Mexico’s cheese tariffs to remain in place will greatly assist the EU in a market where the US has long been the leading supplier,” the letter added.”

Since June 1, the US has imposed 25 percent tariffs on steel and 10 percent on aluminum products from Mexico...

Mexico had retaliated by imposing tariffs on flat steel, lamps, pork, sausages, apples, grapes, cranberries and several varieties of cheese.
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