I don’t know how I would have reacted if a close friend’s family were so blatant about robbing me. Things that come to mind are: murderous rage, temporary insanity and seeing if those joint locks I learned in martial arts really do break bones.

I’ll get into more of a discussion of this in a coming post, but the interesting thing about this despair, and level of living in abject poverty, and attitude, is that it’s something they’re all very aware of. They also blame it on the Spanish conquistadors. You know, they arrived, and forced us into submission, forced us to become catholics, and left us in poverty, built all these colonial buildings, and built a fort (uhh, the fort is long gone folks… other than a few pieces of the wall still standing as historical monuments) and now we’re stuck this way and there’s nothing we can do about it because we’re so oppressed by the conquistadors. Gee folks, that was 600 years ago… maybe it’s about time to get on with things in your city? They seem to be making a go of it in other cities in your country…