Economist, Feb 1, 2014 (II)

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Old Mexico Lives on.
www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595434-old-mexico-lives

Note: “The counties with the highest concentration of Mexicans (as defined by ethnicity, rather than citizenship) overlap closely with the area that belonged to Mexico before the great gringo land-grab of 1848. Some are recent arrivals; others trace their roots to long before the map was redrawn.”

This map is all about ethnic Mexicans. In the Tri-State Area (in and around New York City), the dominant Hispanic group is Puerto Ricans.

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Chile, Peru and the ICJ | A Line in the Sea; Here’s a grown-up way to settle a long-standing border dispute.
www.economist.com/news/americas/ ... er-dispute-line-sea

Note:
(a) “FOR more than a century, Peru’s collective psyche has been scarred by its defeat in the War of the Pacific of 1879-83 * * * Peru’s government [in 2008] asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague to redraw the maritime boundary between the two countries [which Chile consented]”

War of the Pacific
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Pacific
(The 1929 Tacna–Arica compromise gave Arica to Chile [rendering Arica Chile's northernmost city] and Tacna to Peru)

(b) “The status quo in the Pacific clearly favoured Chile. Although the [Peruvian] coast swings northwestward at the border with Peru, forming an elbow, the previous maritime boundary ran due west (see map). Peru claimed that the 1952 treaty from which this boundary derived was merely a fishing agreement. In 2008 it asked the ICJ to rule on a threefold claim: that the boundary should run southwestward, equidistantly between each country’s coast; that it should start at Punta Concordia, where the land border meets the sea, rather than at the first boundary marker (known as Hito 1) located 200 metres inland and slightly farther north * * * The ICJ decided by ten votes to six that in practice Peru had accepted that the parallel (running due west from Hito 1, not Punta Concordia) formed the maritime boundary for the first 80 nautical miles from the coast. Beyond that point, it stipulated a new, equidistant boundary running south-west, as Peru wanted.”
(i) “Although the coast swings northwestward at the border with Peru, forming an elbow, the previous maritime boundary ran due west
(A) elbow (n): "something (as macaroni or an angular pipe fitting) resembling an elbow" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elbow
(B) The first clause simply means the junction of Peru and Chile bends like an elbow.
(ii) I can not find a single map (English- or Spanish-language) that zooms in to such an extent that shows both.
Spanish English dictionary:
(A) punta (noun feminine): “end”
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/punta
(B) concordia (noun feminine): “concord”
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concordia
(C) hito (noun masculine): “milestone, landmark”
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hito

(c) “The upshot is to extend Peruvian waters, but only in the high seas. Most of the fish in the disputed waters—mainly Pacific pilchard and mackerel, worth more than $100m a year—will stay in Chilean waters.”
(i) sardine
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardine
(or pilchard)
(ii) pilchard (n; origin unknown)  
www/m-w.com

(d) “an [Chilean] aide stressed that Chile had lost none of its territorial waters (which extend for 12 nautical miles from the coast)”

The ICJ case decides only Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
(e) Robert Kozark, Peru, Chile Brace for Maritime Border Ruling; In question is a chunk of ocean rich in anchovies used in the fish-meal industry. Wall Street Journal, Jan 25, 2014
online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304632204579340642763337188
(“The court's decision however can't be appealed and applies immediately.”)

There is no need to read the rest of the WSJ report.