You obviously haven't visited Quatemala City have you? And by your ignorant comment it is unlikely you have ever spent much time in Central America at all. You are unfairly maligning a class of people who on the whole bust their asses more to provide for themselves and their family members just to survive than you would ever have to endure in your entire lifetime.
It is no fault of theirs that that there is no industrialized infra-structure to provide jobs such you have had the privilege of enjoying. After all, isn't it you and your like minded anti-NAFTA crowd who are so damn opposed to our country's major industries expansion in Central and South America? You can't have it both ways dude!
It is no fault of theirs that those who are not land owners have to slave from dawn to dusk in the cane fields or the banana fields or the cocoa fields or the pineapple fields all the while providing you with your precious sugar for your coffee, bananas for your breakfast and cocoa for your latte's........
And as for that three room, one bath cinder block house that you are so up in arms about this guy building on the enormous monies he was able to send back to his home, I can tell you from experience what that probably entails.
One combined dining/living room area, two bedrooms and the bathroom. Quite likely behind the wall at the back of the dining area is the small cooking area..............Unfortunately the article didn't mention how many folks will be living in that new, enormous, (maybe 1,600 sq. ft. at the absolute most) house..........
I could tell you about my Brother-in-law’s family in Honduras, how their sugar cane plantation yields on the average of $18,000 per year, and how his now deceased brother and sister-in-law lived in the same house dimensions along with 8 other family members. And when Mario, Ray and Miriam came to San Pedro from Tegucigalpa, it then got kinda crowded.
And I could also tell you how that money provided an annual subsistence for all and also helped send Miriam to college to become an Attorney, Mario and Ray to medical school and Rosie’s son to a private American speaking school and her three daughters to university.
And I would also tell you that Mario was able to establish a very successful medical practice netting him approx. $12,000 per year salary prior to his untimely death 4 years ago leaving a wife and two beautiful daughters who are now residing in the house. Ray too was able to begin a successful medical practice until he too died 4 years ago leaving behind a wife and a daughter. Malpractice insurance? Life Insurance? Medical Insurance…….LOL! What’s that?……..
So don’t even begin to give me your crap of how the people in Guatamala or any other Central American country are lazy and deserving of what they have………..There is no Workers Comp for the field worker who loses a finger or a hand or gets bitten by a poisonous snake, there is no extended wage for a worker who gets injured and loses a week, two weeks or maybe even 6 months due to injury on the job. There also isn’t any medical insurance to cover their injuries, they’re on their own!
And for what it’s worth my friend, it hasn’t been until the last fewl years that residents of Honduras were even given access to automobile insurance……….That’s another story I’d love to tell you about my BIL’s purchase of a new truck for his brother Pepe’ in Honduras that was stolen within a month of ownership………..
And I'm not even going to get into how difficult it was for Rosie to obtain a passport to just visit the U.S. which was finally approved after 10 years of trying. Or the doctor Mario who wasn't able to obtain one at all until my BIL provided him with a credit card account that allowed him to purchase medical supplies for his practice then basically assure that he would return to Honduras after his visit......
I am on the front line when it comes to opposition to illegal aliens coming to my country but when it comes to individuals such as Mr. Sanchez as opposed to the rest of the dead beats that you claim he and his kind are taking jobs from, well, I'll side with Mr. Sanchez any time............
As for you, you need a reality check my friend. Instead of condemning the peoples of the third world who have little control over their futures, maybe you should volunteer with your local church and do some missionary work down there to see what life is really like for them...........