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Stalking her daughter’s killers across Mexico, one by one

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Re: Stalking her daughter’s killers across Mexico, one by one

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Post by dsohn0 »

throwaway__44 wrote: post #194
watermelon59 wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some areas of Brazil suffer from a lot of that too. Day-to-day violent crime was the #1 reason that I wanted to leave the country.

Left the US(A) in early 2019 for this exact reason (SFBay) after 18 years. Now back in my native Iceland comfortably retiring. And kids no longer need to practice for active shooter situations at school. And I don't worry that a trigger happy cop gets too excited at traffic stop either.

How out of touch do you have to be to compare violence in Brazil to violence in the bay area. Self centered much jesus

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Post by snypher »

rayiner wrote: post #192
rexpop wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth mentioning that the violence in Honduras is, in no small part, part of the US State Department's bipartisan foreign policy from which we benefit. Fast fashion, which Americans consume, is enabled by the precarious situations we've foist upon the Hondurans by destabilizing their government, and installing leadership sympathetic to our colonial interests. Your ex-girlfriend's uncle died for my t-shirt. > Ten…

Various US Army academies and schools are broadly open to members of the military in the United States’ allies. It’s like saying the general when to an American university—that doesn’t imply any American endorsement of his actions.

I'm not willing to accept this argument, School of the Americas (now Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) is not a public-access educational institution. It is purely for the spread of imperialist propaganda around Central and South America.

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Post by FeloniousHam »

RobertoG wrote: post #174
rexpop wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth mentioning that the violence in Honduras is, in no small part, part of the US State Department's bipartisan foreign policy from which we benefit. Fast fashion, which Americans consume, is enabled by the precarious situations we've foist upon the Hondurans by destabilizing their government, and installing leadership sympathetic to our colonial interests. Your ex-girlfriend's uncle died for my t-shirt. > Ten…

Something I find interesting is how we get bombarded all the time about the bad conditions in Venezuela, but we heard very little about, for instance, Honduras and El Salvador.

"[Venezuela] has the world's largest known oil reserves and has been one of the world's leading exporters of oil. " [1]

Honduras is just not internationally interesting, either militarily or economically (outside of some refugee situation).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela

Re: Stalking her daughter’s killers across Mexico, one by one

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Post by rk06 »

thelittleone wrote: post #172
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #165

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Legalizing recreational drugs may help, but it won't solve the problem; hard drugs are still a thing, the cocaine trade is booming (read an article that the amount of cocaine intercepted in the Rotterdam port has gone up 10x in the past three years, and that's just the stuff they catch; wouldn't be surprised if that represents only 10% of what comes in. The article mentioned that the interception doesn't seem to have…

Wait, insulin is in demand in a way comparable to illicit drugs? Can't it easily be accessed through prescription?

In US, big pharma realized that they can increase their profits a lot by increasing the price of insulin as the patients don;t have much option here. So, insulin is ridiculously expensive, and those on insurance can't afford spare doses in case they break one.

So, with demand, comes supply. Since pharmaceutical companies were the ones who raised prices and used patents laws to curb any legal competition, only illegal competition remains.

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Post by rayiner »

snypher wrote: post #202
rayiner wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Various US Army academies and schools are broadly open to members of the military in the United States’ allies. It’s like saying the general when to an American university—that doesn’t imply any American endorsement of his actions.

I'm not willing to accept this argument, School of the Americas (now Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) is not a public-access educational institution. It is purely for the spread of imperialist propaganda around Central and South America.

The US obviously has a self interest in providing training to military members in the Western Hemisphere. That’s why we allow foreign students to come study at any American university. But it’s a conspiracy theory to say that it’s all just a plot to destabilize governments in Central and South America.

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Post by babesh »

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #69
frellus wrote: post #36

Amazing story, and real journalism. If only the news spent more time uncovering the truth instead of opining about politics. I'm so sick of politics.

She had to go through this ordeal because the Mexican government is broken. That’s politics.

Did anyone read to the end? Some of the people she put into prison for kidnapping and murdering her daughter were part of a prison escape and then murdered her.

The other victim in this story was kidnapped like her daughter and like her daughter was found dead. Furthermore, they later found out that it was relatives who planned the kidnapping and murder of the other victim in the story.

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Post by 29athrowaway »

mschuster91 wrote: post #179
29athrowaway wrote: post #143

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At least in El Salvador, things are getting better. The Salvadoran president, Najib Bukele, a 39 year old businessman is effectively controlling gang activity. He is a pretty cool guy, and serves his country without collecting his salary. Gangs in Central America extort people with jobs, so that in the end it's too inconvenient to have a job, and more convenient to be a gangster. If you have a honest job, some random…

> The Salvadoran president, Najib Bukele, a 39 year old businessman is effectively controlling gang activity. Some say that this is due to... shady deals with gang leaders: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54033444 Bukele is also under fire for attacking freedom of the press: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-06/el-salvad...

Are the accusations credible?

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Post by golergka »

pietrovismara wrote: post #166
ogou wrote: post #159

Important to note that her own cousins helped set up the kidnapping and there is no drug transaction or service mentioned. Was done purely for money. Also, this isn’t a story about just one event. A much broader story is laid out. A quick search shows ~1300 confirmed kidnappings per year with 70000 reported missing. A kidnapping ending in death may just get reported as a murder. These numbers indicate a systemic prob…

How brilliant is finance to commodify people's suffering. Surely it helps make the market more efficient?

What alternative would you prefer? Not giving any loan at all for people in such circuimstances? Or give out money for free to anyone who pretends to be in this situation?

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Post by s1artibartfast »

pietrovismara wrote: post #166
ogou wrote: post #159

Important to note that her own cousins helped set up the kidnapping and there is no drug transaction or service mentioned. Was done purely for money. Also, this isn’t a story about just one event. A much broader story is laid out. A quick search shows ~1300 confirmed kidnappings per year with 70000 reported missing. A kidnapping ending in death may just get reported as a murder. These numbers indicate a systemic prob…

How brilliant is finance to commodify people's suffering. Surely it helps make the market more efficient?

I'm not sure how you spin it that the bank or insurance company is the bad guy here. How would you rather it be handled?
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