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What's wrong with the U.S.A.?
Well, you know, it's a bit cliche at this point, but everything Mark has written on this website speaks to the demise of the US - though I think it's not going to be as quick as he seems to believe - the US will still be the richest country in the world until Europe unites, which will be another 25 years or more.
However, my original reason for going to Central America five years ago had to do with wanting to create a multi-cultural ecologically-sustainable, socially responsible community - eventually I hoped also to have education programs for students from many different countries. I wanted to lay down the privilege of living in the U.S. and live among the people Woody-Guthrie style. I ended up in Nicaragua because it was close enough to the U.S., because I listened to a bunch of tour guides who said it was a smart idea, because it seemed that Aleman was in jail and Ortega was on the way out. Shortly before I decided to buy a farm in Nicaragua for that project, I actually put down in paper my plans - which called for me doing it on Panama - read it here.
I might end up back in the U.S. We plan to visit within the next year. I love a lot of things about the U.S. At least from a distance!
Did you check out the new link I posted to the book by one of William Walker's partners? It's interesting to think back to those days - when "California" and "Nicaragua" were both semi-not-really-part-of-the-U.S. Was Walker going down as a racist to exploit Nicaraguans? Or is the actual story more complex? I'd like to see more primary sources to think more about that.