[quote=davelj]
Mira, tu sabes que es el problema: es que gente aqui en los EEUU se miran las noticias en la television sobre los problemas y la violencia (con los narcos) en Mexico y se piensan que el pais es peligroso para todo. Pero esta gente no se viajan and no sabe nada sobre Mexico o otras partes del mundo porque viajando es demasiado trabajo. Es mas facil para tener opiniones sin conocimiento o experiencia.[/quote]
Dave: Which was exactly my point. It’s opinion based on ignorance and the 11:00 PM News.
It’s funny, I used to travel back and forth between Florida (Fort MacDill/Eglin AFB) and Central America in the mid-1980s (1984 – 1988). I would catch up on the news when in Florida and, back in those days, it wasn’t uncommon to see news footage out of Miami featuring Metro-Dade PD and the DEA shooting it out in the middle of some Miami neighborhood with Colombia drug gang members.
Print and electronic media were breathlessly reporting a return to the Wild West and how Colombian narcotrafficantes and Jamaican “posses” were overrunning American cities from NYC to Detroit. Crack cocaine was an “epidemic” that was engulfing our schools and America would be finished as a country by Christmas.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Whether it’s Swine Flu in the ’70s or now, Japan, Inc in the ’80s or China now, or whatever War on Drugs crisis du jour happens to catch the MSM’s fancy, it’s the same old shit, different day.
