Thrasymachus: aiming for a murder rate “lower than Baltimore” seems a bit like wishing for air quality “better than Los Angeles.” Well, I guess it’s something.

Richard Fernandez said:
South America has a problem, but it’s root go deeper than the Colossus of the North. They are within its social and cultural structure.

This is sadly very true. They haven’t recovered from the Feudal culture they inherited from Spain, and no doubt elements of pre-Columbian culture are also a part of it. I wonder though if their Catholicism could be their salvation, if someone really took the 10th Commandment seriously at the political level.

Neither shall you covet your neighbour’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbour’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour. – Deuteronomy 5:21

A second look at the 6th and 8th would be helpful too.

As a side note, on Blogger I was “Cardozo Bozo.” This is my real name.