The rest of the report:
La Prensa Grafica (San Salvador, El Salvador) 5/7/09
* Some 1,395 Salvadorans have been assassinated in the period from January to April of 2009, according to a report by the National Civil Police. This yields an average of 12 homicides per day. Sixty one murders have occurred during the first six days of May. (El Salvador is slightly smaller than Massachusetts; its estimated population for mid ’09 is 7,185,000)
* The Inspector of the National Civil Police has ordered the opening of investigations on 14 members of that agency due to their links with well known merchandise and drug smugglers. Those fourteen cases will be added to three others against police chiefs in the eastern portion of the country due to their association with the “Los Perrones” criminal group. - – - – - -
El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) 5/7/09
* An investigation concerning the kidnapping for ransom of a well known entrepreneur’s grandson revealed that two police agents linked to organized crime were directly involved in the affair. The unpaid ransom was for 1.5 million dollars. Honduras’ Minister of Security said the two “are not exactly members of the police but rather criminals infiltrated into the Police”
* 81 Hondurans arrived at Tegucigalpa’s airport yesterday after deportation from the United States; two of them were immediately arrested “by Interpol” due to pending criminal charges in Honduras. - – - – - -
El Diario de Coahuila (Saltillo, Coahuila) 5/7/09
Mex. military seized five tons of marihuana from two locales in the town of Diaz Ordaz (some 10 mi. up the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, near McAllen, TX) Two subjects were arrested. - – - – - -
El Financiero (Mexico City) 5/7/09
The flu epidemic event was unable to halt the violence of organized crime. Contrary to the declarations by Janet Napolitano there has been an average of 15 executions daily on the northern boundary of the country; according to official data, from April 23 to date there were around 216 executions. Chihuahua, a northern border state, continues to head the list of these events. - – - – - -
El Universal (Mexico City) 5/7/09
The state of Tabasco Dep’t. of Justice began a case against Jose Macias, the driver of a semi truck which was found to have 1,773,998 pseudoephedrine pills hidden under a false floor. The event took place on the Villahermosa-Coatzocoalcos highway. - – - – - -
Frontera (Tijuana, Baja Calif.) 5/7/09
At 6:40 a.m. today, on the main avenue of the Los Laureles section of Tijuana: the body of a man, wrapped in bedding and covered with a plastic bag. Minutes later, in the La Mesa area of town: another victim of execution, also wrapped in a blanket. There was also a preliminary report of a shootout between police and a couple of armed robbers at a store in Tijuana. And “Preventive State Police” announced the arrest of thirteen narco retailers last night and this morning, mainly on the east side of town. - – - – - -
La Cronica de Hoy (Mexico City) 5/7/09
In Coyuca de Catalan, Guerrero, police came upon the body of a man who’d been dumped on a street crossing. His hands and feet had been tied with electrical wire. His eyes had been taped over. He had been shot at least twelve times with cal. 7.62X39 mm. and .38 super firearms. - – - – - - The Mexican government has announced an end to the worst of the swine flu virus emergency. The attached cartoon appeared today in Milenio, a Mexico City paper. Its title reads: “Off with the mouth covers”. The man says: “At last, back to normality” - – - – - -
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he sounds like a RACIST!
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Lets get this guy a Hawaii birth certificate and let HIM be POTUS!
But his words will be ignored in Latin America. The Caudillos like Castro, Chavez, Lula da Silva, Calderon and the pathetic Evo Morales will never admit that it was Spaniard culture and custom that destroyed Latin America.
They will go on by stealing what they cannot create: note what Chavez did just yesterday, nationalizing the oil field services companies in Venezuela.
A voice in the wind. Costa Rica will probably continue to prosper, and the rest will simply continue on their path to social oblivion.
Independent of this, I wanted to go to Costa Rica — it comes off the “kinda wanna” list to the “next chance I get to break away” list!
Great post and I am happy to bump it!
P.J. O’Rourke aptly summed it up in Eat the Rich...it’s all about respect for the rule of law, respect for natural rights and respect for private property. National success mirrors these principles.
He is the Messiah after all, so whatever he says must be right. As Obama's "close longtime friend, mentor and spiritual advisor" said, "Goddamn America!". Everything in the world is America's fault one way or another.
30-plus Latin American or Caribbean countries are now independent nations, and how many have sensible governments? Two or three? Besides Costa Rica, maybe Colombia and Chile? Or has Chile veered leftist again?
Is there even ONE Latin American or Caribbean country that hasn’t been a persistent underachiever or in a constant state of dysfunction for the past century?
Victim-hood and seeking foreign-aid are certainly easier than the sort of self-reflection and responsibility this writer is talking about, but poor nations will make the transition to developed powers when enough of their citizens and leaders come to the same realization. China and India have both taken that step forward. Much of Latin America and most of Africa need to do the same.
BTTT!
President of Costa Rica: US not to blame for past, present or future ills confronting Latin America