In Colombia the two strata battle each other even as the flow of narcotics into the biggest drug consumer country, America, continues. The poor envy the near poor. The latter fear that if the poor win they will be knocked off the one rung of the upward mobility ladder they have managed to climb on. The combination of envious poor and fear-ridden near poor is lethal. But in the great urban centers of global consumer capitalism unconcern prevails.
Global peace means no wars and global prosperity means good and cheap products keep flowing in.
That poor and near poor kill each other in some distant country is like the Romans watching the gladiators dismember each other. The gladiators all were poor and near poor folk, all of them from distant lands. All Rights Reserved. Please do not reprint our stories without our permission. Our articles are available for reprint.