CENTRAL AMERICA IS NO SOMALIA, BUT CLOSE

CENTRAL AMERICA IS NO SOMALIA, BUT CLOSE - Andres Oppenheimer - MiamiHerald.com

“Central America is a compound of geological fault lines, drug trafficking routes, hurricane paths, historical grievances, insensitive oligarchies that resist paying taxes, irrational political polarization, states without natural resources, extreme poverty, high corruption rates, savage gangs, mighty drug kingpins, and a political class that is incapable of maintaining social cohesion,” Villalobos wrote.

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