Tourism fueling child sex in Mexico

Houston Chronicle ^ | Dec. 30, 2005 | IOAN GRILLO

[JoJo Gunn]

Stick up my behind, eh?

But that's okay. Some here are hypocrites, the social churchies who want to be seen, yet not walk the walk. When it comes to defending kids against the Fakers, I'll not apologize.

Perhaps someday your daughter will come up pregnant and fighting the tide of the Fakers who will ostracize her yet never contribute one thin dime to a nourishing meal or a diaper. But you'll know that JoJo Gunn won't look down his nose at her.

As I've already alluded elsewhere, Jesus came because of our imperfection, and I'll call on the carpet the Fakers who try and brainwash our kids into impossible ideals. Kids can and will screw up, and anyway, a perfect Utopia is an ideal, ultimately of stagnation, spouted by the Left. Like it or not, we're here to struggle and be tested, and we either encourage each other after the damage has been done, or hinder them in order to feel superior.

[MillerCreek]

Thanks, very, very interesting article. Happy New Year to you, too! And others (and you know who you are, too)!

~;-D

[servantboy777]

Why yes it is. Cesspools attract what it contains. I have no tolerance at all for child predators.

Can you imagine? These poor children.

Hang these people who would steal the innocence of a child.

I need to stop before I get carried away.

[F16Fighter]

The United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, has urged Mexican authorities to strive for more concrete results in the fight against the trade.

(Huge sigh of relief) It's reassuring that the UN has issued such a sincere and helpful statement in between refills of Dom Perignon.

[razorbak]

"The FBI also has been increasingly aggressive in going after pedophiles."

Since the perverts who ran the country from 1992-2000 are out of power.

[grey_whiskers]

Kids can and will screw up, and anyway, a perfect Utopia is an ideal, ultimately of stagnation, spouted by the Left. Like it or not, we're here to struggle and be tested, and we either encourage each other after the damage has been done, or hinder them in order to feel superior.

Well, that's a point I agree with wholeheartedly.

The best question is how to help prevent the screw-ups.

Try the article here. It seems like an anit-environmental-wackmobile piece, but stay with it.

You may find we have more in common than you first thought.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Kids can and will screw up, and anyway, a perfect Utopia is an ideal, ultimately of stagnation, spouted by the Left. Like it or not, we're here to struggle and be tested, and we either encourage each other after the damage has been done, or hinder them in order to feel superior.

Well, that's a point I agree with wholeheartedly.

The best question is how to help prevent the screw-ups.

Try the article here. It seems like an anit-environmental-wackmobile piece, but stay with it.

You may find we have more in common than you first thought.

Cheers!

[WatchingInAmazement]

Chronic_loser said:
I would like to see your "villages.. mostly vacant except for children and old people."

Hateful shriveled up xenophobic rants get the contempt they deserve....., except on FR immigration threads. Here they are "patriotic."
51 posted on 01/01/2006 8:50:29 AM PST by chronic_loser"

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Ghost town

The Mexican state of Zacatecas, once a place rich in silver but now one of the poorest areas in the country, is illustrative.

US President Bush and Mexico President Fox
The Mexican migration issue is high on the agenda for Bush and Fox
More Zacatecans live now in Los Angeles than in the city of Zacatecas.

The State Governor, Ricardo Monreal, acknowledges that "their economic influence is huge and their political clout as a consequence of that is huge too".

"It is thanks to them that I became state governor," says Mr Monreal.

Remittances also have social and human implications.

In the village of Jomulquillo, a couple of hours from the city of Zacatecas, what hits you as soon as you arrive is the silence.

One of the few locals remaining there says that at the moment there are 80 people living in the village - 300 live in Los Angeles.

With the empty houses, the closed windows and locked doors, this feels like a ghost town.

But the pain of families being separated is somewhat compensated by these remittances that, in the case of Zacatecas, not only help the relatives but also their villages of origin.[snip]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3582881.stm

ILLA JUAREZ, Mexico (CNN) -- It is an aspect of the immigration story that goes largely untold. As millions of Mexicans leave for a chance at a better life in the United States, they aren't just changing American society, but society in their homeland as well.

Take, for example, the town of Villa Juarez, in the state of San Luis Potosi, the geographic center of Mexico.

This largely agricultural community has 13,000 residents, most of whom have the same surname, "Izaguirre," though most are not directly related.

But the village is undergoing a transformation of sorts. It has lost five thousand residents in the last five years alone, most headed for the U.S. Most of those migrating are young men, leaving behind mainly women, children and the elderly.

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/fyi/news/09/24/hispanic.hometown/


In Quiringuicharo (key-ding-gwi-CHARO), two-story houses wear fresh coats of paint. But few cars move through the well-paved streets.

No chit-chat can be heard from the shops. No food vendors ply their trade.

The refurbished town square sits empty, no children run playfully down its walkways.

A cross atop a hill can be lighted, but no one has turned it on for months.

Quiringuicharo has a heartbeat, but it pulses 1,500 miles away - in and around several crowded Rolling Meadows apartment and condominium complexes.

About one-half to two-thirds of Quiringuicharo's 4,000 residents live in the United States.

Back near Quiringuicharo's red-brick central plaza, 46-year-old Irma Herrerra says the suburban complex is known by its Mexican name. "We call it the 'Ranchito Quiringuicharo.'"

She's never seen the suburb where her three brothers, her son, daughter and husband now live.

She chooses to stay in Quiringuicharo, a veritable ghost town.

"All of the houses are empty," she says. "They have all gone north."
Back in Mexico, Albert owns his own home.

It rises two stories with three spacious bedrooms.

Stairs spiral up to the roof where he would sometimes sit in the mornings to look out at the town and the hills beyond.

Now it stands empty.

Quringuicharo sits an hour and a half from Michoacan's capital city of Morelia and about one hour from Guadalajara, Mexico's second-largest city. Michoacán is an agricultural state from which 17 percent of Illinois Mexicans emigrate.
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/fyi/news/09/24/hispanic.hometown/
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The Mexican government – PAN President Vicente Fox is as bad or worse than the formerly dominant PRI officials – refuses to implement the free-market reforms that will enable its people to find work at home. One news article a few months ago reported on the ghost towns of Mexico, places where 90 percent of the adult male population is gone, in America working and sending money home.

That’s not healthy.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/greenhut/greenhut8.html
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The amount of migration worries me - we leave our villages and we see other ways of life. We worry about the breakdown of our families... There are people here who haven't seen their wives or children for eight or ten years and that's not fair, that's not right."

While jobs in the United States bring money back home, the absence of men has lead to the breakdown of family life. In Oaxaca's neighbouring state of Veracruz, a fall in coffee and papaya prices recently forced the men to migrate. Lucretia is waiting in vain for her husband to come back: "The first time that he left he used to send us money but very little and now it's the same, he doesn't have a job. One day he works, the next he doesn't and also we don't hear from him... I was thinking of going to help him out so I also could earn some money, but it's not possible because I can't leave the children - and it is not easy because I think he's got another woman and he's going to stay there."


http://www.tve.org/lifeonline/index.cfm?aid=1018

Leaving ghost towns

The dramatic numbers, Mexican officials have said, led them to conclude that seeking immediate amnesty may not be the answer and could spark even more immigration to the United States.

The current exodus has transformed huge sections of the countryside in Mexico into a series of ghost towns with freshly painted homes but no one to inhabit them.

Victoria Almanza of Guerrero, who works as a maid in an upscale hotel in downtown Chicago, timidly points out the difficulties of crisscrossing the border because of a U.S. crackdown along the 2,000-mile-long region.

"It's not easy going home," she said. "We feel trapped here."

http://are.berkeley.edu/APMP/pubs/agworkvisa/foxpushes071601.html

[narses]

Exactly.

[Ohioan from Florida]

I'm just suggesting that, for some reason, you seem to be going at it a bit strongly with the other FReepers. It's a bit over the top. Sounds to me like you're the one trying to feel superior.

However, it is nice to know that pregnant girls won't get looked down upon by you. They'll need help and guidance from good people to rise above the circumstances they're in, whether chosen or not.

[Calpernia]

Just FYI, Guangdong Province (China) is also victim to vacant villages with orphaned children.

The adults were all taken out with tainted blood, the children are then subjected to sweat shops, slave trade and sex industries.

I've been away from my desk most of the day. If you need back up info on it, re-ping me or freep mail me.

[Calpernia]

I call MAJOR foul when, for WHATever reason, you use a reference to someone's child.

Just to own it, I'm letting you know I hit the abuse button.

You want to make a point, fine. Don't you ever reference anyone's child to make it.

[ThinkDifferent]

The extreme libertine libertarian will claim that: 1 - a child is a 'free adult' when he can support himself

Enjoy arguing with the strawmen in your head.

[grey_whiskers]

You know, JoJo wished me a Miserable New Year.

I must admit it has brightened considerably now that JoJo's account has been banned.

Cheers!

[Xenalyte]

To be sure, pedophilia remains a sensitive topic popular pastime in Mexico.

There, all fixed.

And before the flames start, I would refer y'all with the blowtorches to the amazing number of illegal Mexicans in American prisons for raping very young girls.

[Calpernia]

Happy New Year

[RunningWolf]

Those are grotesque and evil things going on there jeremiah.

These people are like vampires that consume children and young adults for their pleasure.

Wolf

[Xenalyte]

Dear, dear Sir Francis, I can't help but note the amazing irony of the founder of the Hellfire Club wringing his hands over sex crimes.

But you just go right ahead and freak out over us Libertarians, who (for the record) do not advocate the exploitation of children.

[Calpernia]

>>>>number of illegal Mexicans in American prisons for raping very young girls.

I didn't even think about that connections.

Thanks.

[Xenalyte]

Seems like 95 out of every 100 reports I read or hear about a child rapist involves a man with a Hispanic name.

Mind you, the news "sources" are quite wary of calling the rapists illegal.