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To: gg cox who wrote (16021)	3/27/2007 12:26:24 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218536

Slum! Google Earth coord.22 59 21s 43 14 57w

To: gg cox who wrote (16021)	3/27/2007 2:58:56 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 218536

gg, I guess you value and are pleased with many features of a developed country, as I am. It is training, and as Mark Twain said, "All we are is training." Likewise, the barrio has many features that are of great value to the people who live there, features that are unavailable here for any amount of money. Even the outlaw gangs and kidnapping syndicates play a useful role. Hard to understand, but believe me their existence is not entirely an accident. It works like this: The rural gentry and common folks alike want to be left alone. They really have a tropical paradise and don't want any outsiders to come there and muck it up for them. It is not so much foreigners that are the problem, but rich folks and businessmen from the town or government officialdom from the capitol that they fear. And it is not because the government people are especially corrupt. But they are free and pay NO TAXES and live there surrounded by their friends and family and just desire things to remain as they are. So, they very cleverly manage to keep things just a bit "dangerous" to the outsider and they stay away. The bandits and kidnapping gangs are no problem to the locals. When I lived there I sent about five dollars per month up the mountain to the local NPA "Kommander" (communista gang leader) as "revolutionary taxes". The particular "outlaw gang" that I mentioned in the previous post were something new and unnatural and like I said, likely a product of CIA/Mossad activity. They are mostly gone now, but the more traditional outlaws and kidnappers are still there, just like always. Years ago Tiger Woods and some Manila developers tried to build this big golf course development in this beautiful place on a bay. They sent them packing in a hurry, with a price on Tiger's head. No more golf course. Slagle