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Sprite seems to have a problem with US involvement in smaller vulnerable countries, like Colombia. I assume that he does not like the idea that the US government has trained officers in the Colombian army. Or put uniforms on Costa Rican police. Hmmm. What about Egyptian army officers who so far have been rather restrained in treating the demonstrators demanding freedom.
As a matter of fact, didn’t the US military have a bit to do with the training of the militaries in South Korea, Taiwan and Chile – all solid democracies?
I bet sprite loves the new President of Brazil, a communist in the process of dismantling the Brazilian constitution. I do not think the US had anything with that “progress” of freedom.
Has it occurred to him/her that Costa Rica has profited from the involvement of our government and businesses doing so much to help Costa Rica advance economically and maintain an umbrella of military protection over her as we have over Panama. How many Americans and Canadians would stay in CR if the availability of US Marines evaporated? Those expats would scamper back to Norte America the moment their gated communities’ walls are broached. Safety in CR is only assured in this day and age by the hope of US intervention when trouble rises up = and that will happen! Oh, maybe the Chinese will help after they finish the soccer stadium.
Michael
Hello from SW Florida,
Been here a month and very pleased to be absent from the winter in NJ.
I say again regarding the war on drugs that this issue is really a physical manifistations of much bigger essential issues in Latin American. The dictators of the region collaborate with the drug lords to finance their own political aims and to destabilize Latin America and the USA.
Suggestion: Google ‘Hugo Chavez Gran Columbia’
Consider: Chavez + Ortega + Castro + FARC + drug lords + arms from Russia + Hezbollah presence
Still feel safe and secure in CR? Especially when USA cannot meet its international commitments?
OK, Chavez is just a kindly uncle attending to his own business.
Fact is though that he has openly declared his intent of bringing Simon Bolivar’s Gran Columbia back to life. He envisions himself as the modern day Bolivar. And has openly stated his aims of attacking Columbia; he supports FARC against Columbia.
Panama was originally part of Gran Columbia and it was part of Columbia before the US wrenched it away for the canal.
1+2=3
If the US is the “bad guy”, does that mean that Chavez and Ortega are the “good guys”? Who wants to move to Venezuela?
Drugs are not the root of our problems. They are simply a physical manifestation of deeper essential damage to the American soul. Therefore we can see how rouges like Noriega and Ortega and Chavez and many others conspire with thieves to undermine American society
Hi, again,
I have friends from Columbia who are very glad for the UA help. They are very concerned about Presidente Chavez and his Gran Columbia ambitions which at some time will include the Canal.
Yes, I expect heat and humidity and bugs in SW Florida come Summer. But that is when I vacate for a month in CR or back to the Jersey Shore. My primary concern for the relocation is the safety of my wife and I with the coming collapse in the USA. We are getting out of NJ and the Northeast because it is getting too dangerous. Watch the news and the reaction to Gov. Christie’s initiatives. Crime is accelerating now. People are pissed. The state debts and their consequences are starting to agitate not just individuals but groups – read “class war”. Its happening; right in my Shore town even. [b]Drugs will be the least of our problems. [/b] Who will have the money to buy them?
My wife and I have chosen SW Florida as maybe the safest place when this country blows. At that time, I question, who will protect the Americans and Brits in CR? Remember the influx of poor Nicaraguans into CR during the last Contra affair? How Ticos had to put razor wire on their walls to deter the home intruders looking for booty and food?
I will selectively visit CR but prepare for the next ten years in SW Florida away from as much turmoil as possible.
Michael
Fear – hmmm.
Hey, I’m ok with fear; we all have to deal with it. The question for me is which fears I listen to and how I respond. And separating really fearful stuff from the marginal. The drug problem and the war on drugs is important but other issues trump this problem.
This whole discussion on drugs really is about a larger topic. For me it is just one piece of the puzzle concerning how our institutions (political, governmental, educational, financial, family, where do I stop) in the US, Europe and elsewhere are floundering. Everything is UNRAVELING! And about to change. Within ten years, we will not recognize the USA or CR as compared with today.
My guess is that this forum is populated with Boomers who have been blessed with lives of relative peace and prosperity and saturated with drugs. We have never been confronted with any real dose of national tragedy. That is NOW changing! New rules for living are being imposed – NOW!
So, how do I prepare for the new realities of the immediate years ahead? I don’t really care about who is to blame for the current situation of the horrible drug problem. Right now, I believe we are seeing the waters recede from our shores to be followed by the rushing tzunami that will hit shortly. I am moving to Florida where home prices are much more attractive than CR now. Where US based communities will better serve my wife and I than US enclave communities in a foreign country.
We are in the Fourth Turn!
Michael (writing from Richmond VA on the way to SW Florida)
WOW – lotsa passion here! First, I love Costa Rica. And as I retire to SW Florida, I will be making frequent short trips to CR for holiday vacations. But I have chosen not to retire in CR. The article on Contra II sealed that decision for me.
Many of the comments in this thread are valid but they are rather disjointed. Not much organization to the discussion. Just generates more questions for me. For example, What in the world is George Soros doing in CR? Mossad? What role does the Canal have to do with all of this stuff? What about the probable breakup of the United States? Where does one want to be, what does one do as the puppet masters reveal their script? What is REALLY going on?
Focusing on drugs and illegals is like visiting teams focusing on the stripes in the Yankee uniforms.
Thank you Scott
