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Politics : About that Cuban boy, Elian -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (6758)	5/31/2000 5:43:00 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

... it's in the culture, ingrained [along with an urge to fight it - a dichotomy i can only observe, not explain]. Ha ha ha ha... How true that is... that and a million other things. One has to live there, after a while, it is easier to "understand" the events, but never the reasoning process behind (which does not exists, or at best, it is self-damaging). Remember that book... ( I forget the author, it might be Carlos Fuentes, but I am not sure)... In the cover, there is a picture of a Mexicano with a gigantic moustachio, he is trying to get up, but he can't because he is stepping on his own moustache. This represents not only Mexico but all of the Latin American countries. Forget the gringos, WE are our own worst enemies. Sabemos conjugar el verbo 'chingar', mas no el verbo 'ganar'

To: marcos who wrote (6758)	6/2/2000 12:13:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Another feudal story, perhaps a little more raw. Some years back I spent a lot of time in Baguio, a smallish resort city up in the mountains, but only 1 1/2 hrs. travel from the sea. I had neighbors with 2 sons, who were back from a term working as mechanics in Saudi Arabia. They hated Saudi Arabia (no women, booze, or gambling, the Filipino hell), and decided to buy a small truck and go into business shipping fish up from the coast, which they calculated they could do at substantial profit, at the prevailing prices. When they brought their first load to the market, no vendor would touch it. At any price. They ended up taking the fish around to restaurants, selling out and getting orders for the next day. Unfortunately, on their way down to the coast the next day they were forced off the road by armed men, who slapped them around, slashed their tires, and told them in no uncertain terms that if they ever carried fish on that route again, their truck would end up in the ravine, with them in it. The boys went back to Saudi Arabia, and fish is still very expensive in Baguio. So it goes. Also reflected a bit on Castro's "victory", and I wonder how much of a victory he will find it. He will of course get points for standing up to the norteamericanos - and nobody who hasn't lived in a small poor country can understand how big those points are - but he will also have had it demonstrated to all and sundry that even a communist can get a fair hearing, and win a common-sense case, in an American court. That is probably not the message he would want to see communicated. Might stick in his craw one day. Let's hope.