Right now I would take 77 cents per hour to lobster dive. I'm getting a bunch of IOUs from California, which quite frankly, taste like sh|t.
That is funny.
Agilulfo, what does the average lobster fisherman make in South Africa, Vietnam, Mexico, Belize, ETC.....
I wasn't in Honduras, or the bay islands when this went down, but from what I am getting, (from "boots on the ground" not resort connected source) it was blown completely out. Everyone of the posters that have been accused of "Come on down the water is fine" has made statements to the effect of "you are responsible for understanding your risks and making your decisions".
I have traveled a bit in the world and happen to be part of a real "Coup" the year was 1999, the country, Cote D' Ivoire, Ivory Coast in west Africa for the Gringos. I was in my apartment, making a sandwich when the first shots were fired. I didnt know it, at the time, but it was shots of celebration, the President had just been force to exile out of the country. It did however get my attention as three bullets managed to lodge in the ceiling of my place without breaking the windows. Learn something new every day, that day it was a ballistics lesson.
I was double wammied seeing as Y2K was happening in a week or so and I was part of the energy infrastructure and concern for technology was running rampant. It didnt help that the ministers that we had just finished convincing "Y2K" wasnt going to affect the country were all arrested, either formally, or house arrest. We had a week to convince/stay out of prison with the new government.
The next 2 months were interesting, during the coup, a large portion of the prison population was released, some in error. I grew up in the South, I hunted and have been around guns my entire life. It feels different when they are being used against people and haphazzardly in the process. I was within 20 feet of the windows when my apartment was hit, I watched 2 criminals get fatally shot one afternoon on my way back to the office, I watched the military control every major intersection, I saw the mass grave being reclaimed after it was discovered. That ladies and gentlemen was a Coup. As a matter of fact, it took several years to resolve, I believe 2007 was the year.
PS according to Wikipedia, I had to look up the end of the Cote D Ivoire problems, it appears that 25% of the population lives on $1.25 a day.
Despite what the world bank, X brand news, etc. has said, what happened in Honduras wasnt a coup.
