From: ez000281@hamlet.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Re: Puerto Rico News Update
Date: 7 Jan 93 07:24:42 GMT
Organization: Computing Services, UC Davis

Rolando writes:

>Before posting silly comments as the previous, a real thinker will
>wonder in the first place which is the nationality of those patriots
>that have been turning the puertorican island into a latrine up to
>now. Answer: AMERICANS.

I don't think our country is a latring as you do.  Perhaps you feel that you 
were born in scum.  Fortunately there are those of us who think that there are 
more environmentally conscious people in Puerto Rico than in any other country 
of Latin America.  We stopped a nuclear plant from being built in the south 
coast, a superport from being built in Mona island, a coal plant from being 
built in the west coast, and incinerator from being built in San Juan.  And we 
have the people of EPA working hard at the preservation of mangroves, the 
enformcement of the clean water Act and all other sorts of important 
regulations of clean air.  In Puerto Rico if you burn a mangrove bush you are 
fined $1000.00 and a restraining order is leveled against you.  You are sent to 
jail if you fish a sea turtle.  Where elso do you get this in Latin America?  
In fact, our best rainfores is under the management of the U.S. Forest Service 
(el Yunque) and you are all welcome to see the splendor of the U.S. Forest 
Service's only tropical rainforest.  As any other industrial society we are 
struggling to maintain a balance between the needs of our industry and 
population and the needs of the enviorment, and we have done so with relatively 
great success, thanks to our EPA regulators.  Thank god the environmental 
nightmares of bannana republics has not happened in our island.  And we still 
preserve our white sand beaches and tropial rainforests!

>Who did the same to northern Mexico? Ans: AMERICANS.

No, no, no.  The MEXICANS in the PRI are the ones that have done this by not 
enforcing the enviromental laws in order to get kickbacks from the industry.  
Such corruption would never be tolerated in our American system in Puerto Rico.

[...]

>As I said before, the acts of (some) americans are to blame for the
>hard feelings people from other countries have against them.

No, no, no.  Its simply human envy what make some blame their wealthy neighbor 
of the misery inflicted upon them by their own elites.  Remember, its always 
easier to blam a Jew that to blame yourself.  Es mas facil mirar la paja en el 
ojo ajeno que la viga en el suyo propio.

>And just to show how in the USA society there are people that
>criticise the american interventionist actions, I'm copying part of
>some postings I found in soc.culture.usa (without the authors' consent).

Of course we have frustrated cry babies who think that they government which 
the great majority of Americans have elected is guilty of all the opression in 
the world.  But the cry babies with yanqui guilt fortunately do not run this 
country and have no support amongst the masses, and when the world want's 
leadership they look to us (except Castro, Khaddaffi, Hussein...), not to the 
cry babies.

>Edelmiro (the self proclaimed champion of USA) was complaining that we
>---in s.c.l-a--- blame USA of many problems that have arisen from the
>USA intervention in the region. But reallity is even worst, as many
>USA citizens recognize their government actions --in the whole
>world-- are the real reason to blame as they have provoked the angry
>response of people from all around the world against USA!

"US citizens" have representatives in the U.S. Congress and in the Presidency, 
and theese in no way agree with the self incrimination which "many" of your cry 
babies assume. 

>If Edelmiro wants this situation to stop he should be trying to fix
>the source of the problem, I mean USA's government actions against
>other countries.

I don't want this situation to stop, for there is only one solution in dealing 
with cry babies: you just don't give them what they want ultil they behave.  
So, you can whine all you want, for we will continue to lead the way of 
progress and prosperity.

>In a related matter, I recall myself pointing out in a previous
>posting that USA was manipulating the UN. And saying that this will
>bring moral problems for UN. The result of that action has become
>clear this week in the way the UN's General Secretary has been blamed
>in Ethiopia, and former Yugoslavia.

Well if the world wants an Egyptian politician to head the U.N. sewer in the 
name of Third World Affirmative action, mediocrity and a credibility gap will 
soon ensue.  Its funny that Boutrous Gali was run out of Somalia, while the 
Marines are having a barbecue.

>Last but no least, remember, the acts of (some) americans are to blame
>for the hard feelings people from other countries have against them.
>I think americans (government) could had expent much better those
>thousands of billions of dollars they expent on deadly weapons to
>support right goverments, in doing more constructive things as creating
>new jobs in those countries instead of providing weapons for the
>destruction of the people.

No hard feeling, but don't worry, now with our pals in Russia, we will invest 
in tactical weapons and in our infrastructure.  We will look inwards and let 
others begin to worry of their own security problems abroad, whenever its a 
militarily risky adventure

peacefully :-)

Edelmiro