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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not travel to Colombia: its homicide rate is 24.91 per 100,000 people and GDP per capita is about 7,001 dollars. 
Mexico is also a hard no, with a homicide rate of 24.86 per 100,000 even though GDP per capita is about 13,861 dollars.

For comparison, the United States is 5.76 homicides per 100,000 with GDP per capita about 81,032 dollars. 
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You are sad. Latin America is a beautiful place with lots of friendly people and the racist negative perfection Americans have of the region, painting it with irrational broad brushes, is sad.[/quote]

If you're actually clear-eyed about it, Latin America is the 3rd World, for good reasons - extensive public corruption, extensive criminal activity due to ineffective law enforcement and a lack of political will, feeble economies, and a susceptibility to Socialist political and economic ideals as a reaction to widespread poverty and national economic underperformance compared to the developed world.

Individual Latinos can certainly be lovely people, but their countries represent little to idealize.  [/quote]
You are so wrong. Actually, you really really should consider a trip to Latin America. You will be shocked at how ignorant you were.[/quote]

No, he’s right.   Being a tourist a couple of times a year for decades doesn’t make anyone an expert.

What he was missing is what destroys these countries over and over are the greedy bully countries. The US, Russia, Spain, France, England are top on the list of helping themselves to their resources and stealing their land for profit.

Just one example - 
Chiquita Corp at one point owned about 40% of growing land in Guatemala.  The corp was American owned and profited America.  Guatemala had a democratically elected president in the 1950s who wanted the land back for Guatemalan farmers.   Chiquita, the CIA and a paramilitary group from Colombia assisted and created a coup with a right wing military dictatorship to replace President Arbenz.  All backed by Eisenhower and the paranoid right-wing US Republicans who feared communism.  It destroyed Guatemala when the US handed Guatemala over to a dictator worse than Chiquita.

This new dictatorship created civil war and the US was right there training government soldiers and providing them with military equipment to kill thousands of their own citizens and cause a large portion to become refugees in Mexico.

And it never ends.  Just recently Chiquita Corporation has been found guilty of hiring Colombian paramilitary to kill union organizers.  
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pprpd3x96o

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