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posted by
majroj
on September 14, 2005 at 2:05 PM
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majroj, Thanks for links to all congresspeople, etc....I should probably
place it permanently on the side of my blog....thanks again.
posted by
benzinha
on September 14, 2005 at 11:40 AM
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Reach out and touch someone.
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm
posted by
majroj
on September 13, 2005 at 8:53 PM
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homegirl, I fell in love with a Honduran while stopping there one summer
on my way to college. I have followed their politics ever since. The fellows from the Swan Islands, the garifuna, are black and that's why you might not have thought of him as Hoduran when you first met.
I taught English there that summer and when a black fellow walked into my classroom, I expected him to speak Portuguese (the country that I had just left) or English (the country that I was going to), but not Spanish. It gave me a brain freeze for awhile, but I bugged him the most about his accent in English, telling him that sounding like an Arizonan (no accent that I can find, hehehehehe) would be a good thing for him in the US, where he wanted to go study.
President Maduro, a wealthy man, has been trying to end corruption as best he can and to encourage it in neighboring countries. President Bolanos has been accused of corruption, nothing proven as yet in any court, but they (many Nicaraguans) want to go outside of their constitution to get rid of him. Maduro wants them to follow their delicately instituted constitution and preserve their new found constitutional democracy. Make rules, follow them always, and prosper, is his attitude.
Ridding nations of corruption and making the people 'believe' that you are doing it, that it is working, that they should cooperate, that they should not saboutage what little progress you are making, that it will all hold together and continue to work, is like watching a man on a wire at a circus. The old style people hope he will fall, the poor people hope that he won't, but have lost all of their faith and patience, then a few of the new style people want to use old style tactics to hurry up the process and on he walks, in a wind.
His son was murdered in a kidnapping attempt and he decided to run for office to try to control a 'transnational network' of criminals working in Central America. He visited Mayor Giuliani in NYC to see how he had worked at it and to teach his people in Honduras Giuliani's techniques. It has been a struggle against secret police squads, regular unready military troops failures and successes, prison guards corruption, mass murders within its prisons between the gangs housed there, and against the Mara Salvatrucha and others.
Politics thrown in to the mix wear a man down and he is about to leave office, hopeful that his fight will be carried on in a decent and effective manner.
posted by
benzinha
on September 13, 2005 at 11:41 AM
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Thanks for the heads up Benz
I went to college with a honduran guy. What you said makes sense.. my first thought was I noticed very few hispanic people in the film and pictures, then I remembered that my Honduran friend from college looked exactly like an African American.... He just spoke spanish in addtion to English.
posted by
homegirl
on September 13, 2005 at 10:02 AM
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