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To: West Coast Conservative
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31 posted on 12/23/2004 11:01:15 PM PST by timpad (The Wizard Tim - Keeper of the Holy Hand Grenade, Finder of Obscurata)
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To: timpad

It is such a shocking crime. Such photos as the one you linked were more typical of Colombia than Honduras.

Honduras was the poorest American country statistically after Haiti in the 80s but its murder rate was lower than its less-impoverished Central American neighbors with the exception of Costa Rica. BTW Costa Rica had the lowest murder rate and the least restrictive gun laws of any Central American country. The recent crime spike in Costa Rica is due to the large pool of recent immigrants from Nicaragua --- hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans are in Costa Rica.


32 posted on 12/23/2004 11:10:59 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (Technology advances but human nature is dependably stagnant)
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