But it was hard not to think of the old graffito - "Archduke Franz Ferdinand found alive; First World War a mistake".
That graffito on a concrete border wall in Nogales, on the Mexican side of the frontier with the United States, tells a simple story: the business of migration in this part of the world is both lucrative and increasingly dangerous.Residents of Nogales advise visitors to avoid "Buenos Aires", a hillside quarter controlled by violent gangs, where smugglers corral their human cargo in safe houses.
He is now under house arrest in Brazil, resisting extradition on charges relating to the murder of Paraguay's then vice-president in 1999.In this section Fox's moment of truth Culling the politicians Cleaning up Stump war Despair and anger Reprints"We have two types of politicians the incapable and those capable of anything," reads a graffito on the wall of Congress.
If and when that day comes, the graffito covering an adjoining wall of the former American embassy—"Down with the USA"— may fall victim to the sandblaster too.
"GET free or die trying," runs a graffito in English on the wall of a migrants' detention centre on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libya's capital.
As the mayor's bus drew to a halt, a pupil at the school, who was supposed to symbolise plucky dedication to learning in a tough place, scrawled a graffito on the side.
It marks a remarkable change in Hungarian politics: Mr Orban is turning the right into a mass movement.The graffito reflects one of its basic premises: that the right lost the elections because the Socialists and Free Democrats, then in opposition, rigged them.
"SHAS is dividing Jerusalem!" At first glance, the graffito on a wall in the city centre looks incongruous.
The graffito about Shas, plus posters similarly denouncing Yisrael Beiteinu which began appearing just before the Annapolis summit, shows that the pressure is already on.On top of that, Mr Olmert's government could still fall over the final report of a commission investigating last year's Lebanon war, or over any one of several corruption probes (though those threats have recently receded a bit).
Lord Byron may or may not have been responsible for that graffito, but he indubitably had the Scottish toff in mind when, in a poem entitled "The Curse of Minerva", he penned these lines:Daughter of Jove!
"If you have a brain you are a start-up," encourages a graffito on one of the many stacked containers flanking the hall.
