Perhaps because we have so much on our plate already. A bad economy, health care, two wars, the threat of nuclear confrontation, and fear mongering from the far right. There is only 24 hours in a day and we have to sleep some time. On a scale of priorities, Honduras will have to take a back seat for now.
I am cynical after 26 years in AZ, but: Here the political elite and the moral majority prefer to ignore those with brown skins and Spanish accents. Except as prison inmates. Let them all kill each other off.
There ain't no oil in them thar hills. Venezuala is another story. The CIA has been active down there for years. It's only with public education programs they have been able to thwart CIA initiatives to overthrow their government to install a puppet regime which satisfies the oil cartels.
I spent some time in Central America as well as Colombia.
As a gringo I ask for nothing and nothing is what I got.
Sure, I care, but the audience ain't listening, they don't give a rats ass about North America.
In Nicaragua, everyone has guns, you can buy just about anything. The most dangerous place in the world other than North Korea.
In El Salvador, it is like the stone age.
Guatemala and Costa Rica show enormous signs of civilization but the hand is out-what can YOU do for me today? McDonald's owns every head of cattle.
Mexico is Mexico, what you see is what you get.
Did you stop to think that it isn't the North Americans that don't give a shit but the reversal?
If I recall, pulga, in Spanish is for flea, or one who annoys (no harm intended, sir)
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Ricky
I think we have always underestimated South America. Only when we need something from them or they present a problem to us do we notice them. That is why the anti american sentiment can spread, not because we are doing anything wrong but because we have not become known to them as friends.
Thanks for the insight Ricky.....El Salvador might be a different place today if the CIA had butted out back in the 70's as would most Central American Nicirovegians. The CIA disrupted the time continuem otherwise who knows where they might be today? Free? Panama is a case in point. Whose interest is it in keeping these people in chaos?
I had alot of central americans working for me-really good, hard working people.
If we did get involved-we would just screw it up -like Iraq.
well thank you for your answers.
First of all, Rickaz28, you are right, Pulga stands for flea. I was really tiny when I was a girl and my father used to call me that. Though I hadn't thought it might be because I was annoying ;)
My question was not because I thought Americans should get actually involved, as in Irak (God forbid!), it is more an issue of caring. I read and follow news form USA, Africa, Mideast, everywhere. I think that whatever happens in any country will affect all of us. And Central America is a neighbor, really close.
I just wish we all realized that ALL of our plates are full, but maybe if we stopped looking only at our own navels we could get out of our different ruts more easily working together.
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