Words you find yourself using a lot when writing about Latin America

Ouster. Why is that a noun and not a verb? Is it incorrect to say ousted president? I think it sounds so funny when people say, "Months of protest achieved the President's ouster."

Can we get some ouster action up here in North America?

Why I haven't written lately...

Good night and good luck

In a nice perversion of Patrick Henry's famous line, Senator Jim Bunning, Republican of Kentucky, defended renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act saying, "Civil liberties do not mean much when you are dead."

It's the Constitution, stupid.