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“I wanted to go to their events, on the theory that girls who attend communist youth conferences will do anything, like girls with tattoos.”— Harry Hutton, disguised as an International Youth, attends the International Festival of Youth and Students in Caracas. While we’re in South America, El Salvador rocks:
El Salvador sent its fifth contingent of 380 soldiers to Iraq for humanitarian missions on Thursday, a move that President Tony Saca said was in the same spirit as the countries that helped El Salvador during its 12-year civil war.
“El Salvador owes a lot to the international community,” Saca said, just before planes carrying the troops took off from the Ilopango air base near the capital.
“This country suffered war, suffered terrorism, and there were a lot of peaceful organizations that came to do humanitarian work, and that’s the reason why we are helping out in Iraq,” Saca said.
What goes around comes around. Saca, incidentally, is of Palestinian background.
380 soldiers may not sound like much (or so the nay sayers would sneeringly comment), but Salvador is a small country, and they offer what they can. That old saying, “It’s the thought that counts” best describes it.
And, y’know, having friends is what matters, not how big or rich they are. But friends willing to stand by you, no matter what, are priceless.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 08 12 at 09:59 AM • permalinkSo what? Peru used to be run by a Japanese.
Don’t know if combining tootski and wasabi is a goo idea.
That should be “good”; it’s getting late, and we’re being beaten like a red-headed stepchild again by the poms.
Paraguay had a Sausage-Eater as el presidente’/chief banana and grand poo-bah for about fifty years.
South America doesn’t seem to have taken to the idea of home rule.
(Looking at Venezuela, it’s probably a good thing).
I met a Canadian citizen (nee Costa Rican) in a pub in Toronto who practically draped himself over me when he realized I was a right of center Yank. (I ruled out his being gay but he definitely had a Reagan fetish!)
Most Americans do not have any concept of the gratitude afforded the US after the Commie mayhem of the ‘80’s. Not just in Nicaragua but among Costa Ricans, Hondurans, El Salvadorans, Grenedians/Grenadians (not Granada—that’s in Spain, silly!), Panamanians, etc.
I was at the World Cup soccer qualifier between El Salvador and the US in Boston in Sept ‘04 and had a blast drinking with the ‘Sallies’ before, during, and after the match. They’re good folks.
Muchos gracias, Hermanos. We’ve got each others’ backs.
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I’ve got an El Salvadorian client, and he’s a champ (but a have-a-chat). He sponsors a soccer club for young ex-pats, and while fiercely loyal to his adopted country loves his place of birth and wants to help it out. If you see El Salvadorian yucca chips and assorted other goodies on sale, buy ‘em (some are a bit nasty, and their coffee is dreadful, but he no longer imports it). He’s had to go through all manner of bollocks to put his nation’s salty and fatty snacks on the market, and he deserves to succeed.
BTW- I also think El Salvador id now commie-free, they’re all feeding the vultures up around the volcano, courtesy of the Esquadrion de Muerte’.
Now they were real RWDBs.