I
found this interesting. Of the 50K or so children picked up at the
US-MEX border in the last 6 months, most of them are from
Guatemala/Honduras/El Salvador, yet very few are from neighboring
Nicaragua.
Of course Honduras is the murder capital of the Americas (if
not the world), so Nicaragua by default has less violence. All of those
countries are pretty poor, but Nicaragua has much less drug gang
violence and a different immigration history with the US. It stems from
the Cold War. The US interfered in the affairs of all those nations to
support pro-US, right-wing forces against leftist opponents. For
Nicaragua, the US backed the Contra rebels against the Sandinista gov't
(which, with popular support, overthrew the US-backed Somoza
dictatorship beforehand). Because of that, the US was more welcoming of
Nicaraguan refugees in the 1980s, similar to pro-American Cubans and
Hmong. So the ones who wanted to leave may be already here. In addition,
after the civil war Nicaragua invested more in functional law
enforcement, community development, and proactive gov't (without
America's help). The Sandinistas were recently elected back to power.All opinions and topics are welcomed and respected. Though we tend to hold non-mainstream views and seek to explore deeper past the simplified headlines. This blog is a collection of email conversations I have had with 30 other people, with names removed. Please realize that a few postings are intended to be inflammatory or comedic, but not as personal attacks on anyone (who doesn't deserve it). :)
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