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U.S. Gangs Are A Force In Central American Prisons

February 17th, 2012 2:43 pm Associated Press

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The deadliest prison blaze in a century has drawn attention to an unfortunate U.S. export to Central America: street gangs.

Prisons in Honduras and elsewhere in Central America are teeming with inmates who belong to gangs that have their roots in Southern California. Refugees of the region’s civil wars sowed a new breed of violence on the streets of Los Angeles in the 1980s.

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  • EATHERICH

    the rich love slave labor, the government loves tho 99% tax rip-off ileagels give up. the cia,brings the dope the dea sells the dope the cops bust the dope the judges love it, the cops love it the people get screwed all ways. legelise drugs, remove the profit, end of problem.so the gop goes broke, no loss

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/IKULBIRJEIF6XLKQY7EZGEPIL4 Paul

      That’s exactly why they want control over all your life…your health…your speech…your children…your thinking.

      Government Healthcare
      Government Censorship
      Government Education
      Government Employment
      Government Religion

      Looking a little like China, above?!

      China killed 100 million people just to get communism implemented…not counting the billions slaughtered by sterilization, organ harvesting, euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, etc.

      • Safronia11

        So America has never done any of that??? Read up on what we did to our own soldiers. Testing all kinds of chemicals, etc. on them. Especially what we did to the Black soldiers. Your little list is what all governments & countries have done to their own people. Americans are no different. We commit atrocities in war. We force religion on others. We take religion away from others.
        But I must bring up Healthcare. The Insurance companies run & profit from Healthcare. It isn’t the Government that decides if old Mr Jones can have his medical procedure or not. It IS the insurance companies that make decisions on who gets what. NOT the doctors, either. The doctors have to tell the insurance companies what they want to do & then some underpaid rep sitting in a cubicle studies the request to find viable ways to deny the procedure. Or at least keep it short & cheap. And best yet, those reps gets bonus’ s for saving their company money. When they can find ways to deny or shorten treatment. Like the women who are halfway through chemo for breast cancer
        & find that their benefits have “maxed.” ACA/Obamacare is trying to change that. I worked in the health industry. I know how it works/doesn’t work. Check out facts before you start talking. Government has managed very will with Medicare/Medicaid/Social Security. This Country has done extremely well by its citizens. As compared to many other places. But, those other countries all of them, provide free medical care to its citizens. Medical care sometimes better than ours. We are not the only so called free country in the World. Our major malfunction is that we think we are better, freer, smarter, & more capable of running the World than other countries. God forbid that we would admit that we could learn from others. Or that we don’t have the right to decide life & death for everything & everybody…just be cause we are
        Americans…

        • Frendrick Smithson

          the state which forced its all of its residents to purchase healthcare? Massachusetts. The governor who placed the law requiring residents of Massachusetts to purchase healthcare? Mitt Romney
          Do a search for his bio as governor, it will show he was once pro-gay rights, pro choice and it was he who made the requiring the purchase of health insurance a law. People in the Republican base voting for him are not informed…..

        • http://profile.yahoo.com/6J6SE4LGZ64NBODFC3DLIRUNHQ sanorio

          So the socialist/liberal/progressive solution is to force all of us into bed with the ‘evil’ insurance industry? Seems kind of stupid to me. Good job there slick.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KCS3Y6VPV2ZQPEWGGZLPSKQI7M Maynard

        China is now one of our top trading partners.
        What does that tell you about the integrity of American corporations?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/IKULBIRJEIF6XLKQY7EZGEPIL4 Paul

    Not only that, Attorney General Eric Holder ARMED those gangs with AMERICAN GUNS…thousands of them and other war weapons, too.

    I believe he went a little too FAST & FURIOUS, for the likes of law abiding Americans, though.

    He will, eventually, end up imprisoned…eventually.

  • http://www.facebook.com/david.lloydjones3 David Lloyd-Jones

    I don’t think a story this short needs to be broken into nine parts. You’re wasting my time!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Craig-Walker/100003117896489 Craig Walker

    it’s America’s hunger for drugs that is destroying/corrupting South America’s governments.
    as with many if not all wars we’ve fought we created and armed our enemies. prohibition made the mob stronger!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KCS3Y6VPV2ZQPEWGGZLPSKQI7M Maynard

    At last a war that we are clearly winning.