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Originally Posted by tanuki
Think in terms of looking at countries like Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Columbia. Or for that matter at any country from Mexico down into Central America where there is high unemployment coupled with a high percentage of the population living near or below the poverty line.
Honduras:
"http://198.81.129.100/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ho.html
"One of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere with an extraordinarily unequal distribution of income and massive unemployment..."
Nicaragua:
http://198.81.129.100/cia/publicatio...k/geos/nu.html
"Nicaragua, one of the Western Hemisphere's poorest countries, has low per capita income, widespread underemployment, and a heavy external debt burden. Distribution of income is one of the most unequal on the globe...""
Guatemala:
http://198.81.129.100/cia/publicatio...k/geos/gt.html
"The distribution of income remains highly unequal with perhaps 75% of the population below the poverty line."
Shrug, it's not hard to understand why the people are making the trip into |
I know these countries are poor and have repressive regimes. but how did they get that way? Most of them have been independent countries since 1821, close to almost 200 years. Yet instead of progressing it seems like they are regressing.