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For the record, I don't find MM's comments harsh. On the contrary, I find his comments constructive. Pithy, concise, to the point, something we should all strive for in our commentary.
Moving on.... Here in Panama, we have witnessed the direct fallout of the Argentine crisis. As with other political and economic difficulties experienced in the Americas, Panama sees net migration from the affected areas; Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, and now the US.
I'm not sure what it all means, but the U.N. has recently moved its headquarters for Latin America to Panama form Mexico. Along with them came, UNICEF, the Peace Corps, and a host of NGOs and support services. The new US Embassy has recently been completed; it's enormous.
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I had watched this last year sometime. I watch it again now.
The best one can do is to remain alert, take responsibility for ones own well being, and treat others with honesty, respect and kindness.
The individual can no more "fix this" than the passenger on the Titanic can rebuild that ship after it has left port.
i'd pay to put this on national tv in the usa. never happen, tho. this kind of truth is too subversive. not 1 in 1 million amerikans even knows argentia's economy crashed in 2001, never mind how & why... or what it bodes for the usa.
Lots of Yanks/Gringos around here already, many still left over from the US Canal days. Culturally, the US still has a strong influence here and Panamanians are extremely tolerant, anyway; if there is a prejudice, it's mostly directed toward Colombians. Colombians fill the same roll as Mexicans in the US: they work hard for little and are resented by the working class. Everyone else is accepted just fine -- it's a real melting pot. What's a Panamanian anyway? The country has only been in existence for 100 years; but for a sparse indigenous population, nobody lived here before that. Most people are from somewhere else.
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