OMGosh a lot of people who are starving “look” well fed. Starving babies have huge bellies. Starving people, and starving people in the USA, look overweight as they eat a lot of potatoes and other starchy foods, which are a cheap food. Looks mean nothing.
I have irritated you on and off and INever! IYou!
Ps--Everyone eventually irritates me, except my grandson.
you, mostly 
It’s ok for you to move to Guatemala if you want but, apparently, you won’t save money on your electric bill.
I did Read the whole thing.
. I am very opinionated.
Or we could just let the crops rot in the fields, I don’t like veggies anyway.
Malnutrition has a unique look.
In some cases, in others no. I was labeled as an adult failure to thrive senior in 2018 even though I was, well, still am a bit, well, more than a bit, tubby. I don’t like protein, it’s very hard for me to digest so I eat very little of it. I look pregnant due to gastroparesis. I don’t like veggies, avoid them like the virus. I do however love carbs and sugar.
Corrupt government and in some cases, civil war or unrest. Actually, those go hand-in-hand. And in some of those cases, the US has intervened diplomatically and/or militarily, which hasn't always had the desired effect. If we intervened militarily where Mexico is concerned (we've pretty much exhausted the diplomatic route) I think the global reaction would be very negative to say the least.
I did not in any way render permission to you to feel insulted. I cannot for the life of me how you extrapolated that from what I wrote. I did say, if you chose to be insulted, so be it. I neither can stop you from being so nor tell you that you must be.I did Read the whole thing.
I appreciate your giving me permission to be insulted, but I don’t need your permission for that either. We disagree on this issue, I feel you insulted and disrespected me, by the bleeding heart comment. And I agree, I am a bleeding heart about most everything, but I don’t sit back and do nothing. “Fight, fight, against the dying of the light.”
I also saw my ten month old illegal Mexican foster baby returned to Mexico before he could get eye or open heart surgery. It breaks my heart. I know he died. It was the second time he and his mother survived the journey. His mother was returned earlier to Mexico. My adopted son’s Hispanic mother put him up for adoption right away. We received him at six weeks of age directly from the ICU, smarter biological mother.
But please keep in mind this disagreement does not in anyway mean that I like you less, cause I like you a lot, I read your posts, and appreciate and mostly agree with them. I just wanted to make this clear: I never hold even a small grudge and others have said worst things directly to me.
It is all water under the bridge as the duck swims on (as in water off a ducks back).
You seem smart. You must know the history of Central America somewhat? United Fruit and other powerful landowners, including many Americans, and other American companies took over the economies of these nations. The native people were barely higher than serfs. Their economy was raped, robbed and destroyed by mostly Americans. We ruined them for decades. Look it up, look up the history & relationships of C.A. & America. Their puppet governments were put in power by US, we overthrew people who were not good for United Fruit. Study this, then you will learn why it grew in to what we have today.
Yes, I'm familiar with the Banana War and the Arab Spring and similar examples.
Thank you!
I have seen roofing being performed by what I took to be illegalls since they wear hoodies even in summer when it's hot to make identity difficult. Contractors hire them to save money while Americans need and will do the same job. I will only let work be done on my house by Americans even if I pay a little more.
If you asked me I'd say that 9-11 was the impetus for policies that are not so rational or effective some 20 years later.
