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To: E. Charters who wrote (954)	2/28/2003 2:19:11 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

Don't Be Afraid, Gringo ' ... I used to feel hatred towards the gringo soldiers. Why should they be in our country, with all their guns and all their dollars, making life even more difficult for us? But now I know that these poor gringos are just ignorant; they really don't know why they're here or what this struggle is all about. I have friends who've talked to some of them, and they say that these guys don't anything about Central America. They've just been sent here by their government. So it's not really their fault; it's the fault of the people who sent them here. .... So I talked with people who lived near the border and they told me they were afraid because there was fighting going on there all the time, right near their homes. They said that the contras live on the Honduran side of the border, and they sneak into Nicaragua when the Sandinistas aren't looking. They throw bombs and plant mines -- and when the Sandi- nistas go after them, they run back into Honduras. The people who live near the border are scared to death, because they get caught in the battles. Lots of campesinos have moved. They say there are now thousands of Hondu- rans who are homeless because of the contra war. Everyone knows that if it weren't for the contras, there'd be no problems with the Sandinistas. Nobody thinks the Sandinistas are interested in taking over Honduras. They've already got one poor country to worry about. Why would they want another one? But the campesinos down there are scared of the contras. They're scared about getting deeper into a war with Nicara- gua, and they're scared to talk about their fears. They talk to me because I'm one of them. But they won't talk to outsiders, because there are lots of Honduran soldiers in the area. They say the soldiers told them not to talk to anyone, especially journalists. ' .. from the book Don't Be Afraid, Gringo ... the story of Elvia Alvarado, a middle aged campesina involved in land recoveries in Honduras throughout the eighties, in her own words .... published by Perennial Library 1987, ISBN 0-06-097205-X

To: E. Charters who wrote (954)	3/1/2003 2:55:22 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1293

EC, I'd like to see much more emphasis in the U.S on energy conservation and safe non-carbon-based alternative energy. My problem all along with the current energy policy has been that the "cheap fuels" addiction just sets us up for a greater fall when supplies tighten up. Too many greedy people in the U.S. have borrowed too much money to buy huge energy-guzzling dream-houses and SUVs. I think we're setting ourselves up for a nasty shock when we've pumped all our wells dry and the rest of the world (Canada included) tightens the screws. Maybe I should quit teasing Marcos about adding BC as a U.S. state, and start looking into Canadian citizenship.