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trevj said:
I was on a UN Tour in Honduras, back around 1989,
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In 1981 my brother and dad came really close to being executed in Honduras. Two drugged out paramilitary brothers, shotgun to the head, with one shouting do it now. They instead were dragged to the local prison where they spent a couple of days locked up and then were told you have 24 hours to be out of the country. Not a safe place back then. Fortunately they were close to the border.
 
slow-poke said:
In 1981 my brother and dad came really close to being executed in Honduras. Two drugged out paramilitary brothers, shotgun to the head, with one shouting do it now. They instead were dragged to the local prison where they spent a couple of days locked up and then were told you have 24 hours to be out of the country. Not a safe place back then. Fortunately they were close to the border.
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That's more than a little effed up. but I knew a couple guys that got roasted and toasted in the Mexican legal system about that time. One was a brother to one of my classmates.

In '89-'90-ish, while I was in Honduras, it was fairly peaceful and structured, and none of our folks felt that they needed to raise the security flag, for our purposes. I think we were there in a period between major changes, so that colors my view.

I have great memories of my time there. Who would not, being thumped down in a essentially peaceful and functional economy, where your pay was worth six to eight times it's face value?
 
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