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@RWhelanWSJ

Wall Street Journal correspondent covering Latin America, especially news and business in Mexico. Fan of good music and the . robbie.whelan@wsj.com

Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2010.

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    Once Upon A Time... Uber was in Mexico alone, and made a lot of $$ Then, Didi showed up. Then Rappi arrived. An all out price war broke out. Uber's Golden Goose was gone. The twist? Softbank was backing ALL THREE A story, with

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  2. My first appearance on "The Journal," the 's daily podcast, is about Uber, Rappi, Didi, and SoftBank's unusual strategy of funding 3 large startups that are competing fiercely, head-to-head, in Latin America. Oh, and you get to hear me chomp a churro.

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  3. Listen to this podcast featuring the dulcet sounds of me eating churros as a way of understanding the insanity of SoftBank's investment strategy (paying for Uber, Didi and Rappi to flame each other) in Latin America, if that's the kinda thing you're into:

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  4. Steelers ILB, fan/locker room favorite --->

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  5. "Two billionaires? Who's the second one?" Bloomberg hits Trump where he knows it's sure to rile him: his net worth.

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  6. “I'm sure to hear abuse from the President and his supporters. Does anyone seriously believe that I would consent to these consequences other than from an inescapable conviction that my oath before God demanded it of me?” Remarkable speech from Romney.

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    White House was completely caught off guard by Romney's vote. And within minutes of Romney's speech, the White House closed a Trump-Guaido meeting in the Oval Office that reporters had been invited to attend.

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    At least nine dead, including 4 children between 12 and 17 years old, in a massacre at a video arcade in Uruapan, Michoacán, which is in the heart of organized crime / avocado country:

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    What role does Uber play in slowing the spread of a global outbreak of a disease like coronavirus? In Mexico City, w/ millions of rides/day, 240 users have ridden with two drivers suspected by the Health Ministry to be carrying the virus. Uber has suspended all of their accounts.

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    President Lopez Obrador is dismantling the institutions that could make Mexico more transparent and accountable, says via

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    Possible Steelers-Cowboys game in Mexico City during 2020 season, freaking out.

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    This weekend marked 18 yrs since the murder of Daniel Pearl, a reporter killed by Al Qaeda for being Jewish. His brave last words are our rallying cry: "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish." We honor him by recommitting to the fight against .

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    There’s a big Polamalu photo on the 9th Floor at Children’s Hospital - where the kids w cancer stay. There aren’t many photos, so I asked the front desk person “why Troy?” She said: “every Friday he’d come here and play w the kids, never told anyone.” Hall of Fame person that guy

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  16. 1. velj

    NYT story on the fracking economy around my hometown of Pittsburgh suggests very strongly that Biden is the only candidate who could win Pennsylvania in the general:

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    "The pressure of scale [falls] hardest on startup founders," writes in a great overview of the current state of VC. "For a young startup, getting bigger faster is not always the best directive." Relevant to 's and my SoftBank story.

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    It is worth pointing out that the mom in question was a civil servant with a similar job to Merino’s in a previous CDMX government. Still, this is the public tone that Mexico City’s administrators have chosen to adopt in the face of a persistent public security problem.

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  19. 31. sij

    A mom complains on Twitter about how unsafe she feels in Mexico City. A top city government official replies (in public!) by telling her to look at falling crime stats, then says sarcastically she must miss the opacity of the prior administration. Talk about bedside manner!

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