Tornado Alley (PROG)

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one problem, Peg, is gangs have it over parents of whom most, most probably, or many anyway, i'm sure could be seen as responsible parents to send children back to .. and, though it's right we can't shove all blame into the past altogether, as you know, the US has wreaked havoc over decades in Central America, so America still really does share some serious responsibility for many problems in the 3 countries, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, mentioned in Steph's .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=103530167 .. damn, just consider these on El Salvador ..

Remittances from abroad

El Salvador leads the region in remittances per capita, with inflows equivalent to nearly all export income; about a third of all households receive these financial inflows. Remittances from Salvadorans living and working in the United States, sent to family members in El Salvador, are a major source of foreign income and offset the substantial trade deficit of $4.12 billion. Remittances have increased steadily in the last decade, and reached an all-time high of $3.32 billion in 2006 (an increase of 17% over the previous year). approximately 16.2% of gross domestic product(GDP). .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador#Remittances_from_abroad

and this bit

Crime

In the past few years, El Salvador has experienced high crime rates, including gang-related crimes and juvenile delinquency. Some say that this was a result of the deportation of thousands of Salvadorans from the U.S, the majority of whom were members of MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha, or La Mara), in the mid-1990s. The gangs in which Salvadorans had been involved in the United States began to show up in El Salvador. .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Salvador#Crime

and

Human rights

Amnesty International has drawn attention to several arrests of police officers for unlawful police killings. Other current issues to gain Amnesty International's attention in the past 10 years include missing children, failure of law enforcement to properly investigate and prosecute crimes against women, and rendering organized labor illegal.

In El Salvador if a woman miscarries it is frequently assumed she deliberately induced an abortion or could have saved the baby. Women who did not know they were pregnant or who could not have prevented a miscarriage face long prison terms.

we know one religious business who bears much of the blame for that sick abuse of women .. maybe that's
one reason why Evangelicals are on the rise there, sod forbid, yet it's understandable .. one bit on Honduras ..

Crime and law enforcement

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Honduras has the highest rate of intentional homicide in the world, with 6,239 intentional homicides, or 82.1 per 100,000 of population in 2010. This is significantly higher than the rate in El Salvador, which at 66.0 per 100,000 in 2010, has the second highest rate of intentional homicide in the world .. Crime and law enforcement .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduras#Crime_and_law_enforcement .

.. only glanced at Honduras for that, and haven't got back to Guatemala .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala , yet ..

yup .. sadly, the problem TODAY does go much, much deeper than sad personal and family stories ..

See also:

The US Government completely laid waste to the societies of South and Central America...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=60903144

Blues for America
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=54119408