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01-01-2012, 18:55
Hello All. Hope everyone is recovering well from New Years celebrations.
A friend of mine is heading down to Honduras for a little while. I was putting some stuff together for him when I ran across this, the Peace Corps are leaving Honduras due to security concerns:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16300070
http://honduraspeacecorps.blogspot.com/2011/12/holiday-greetings-pc-leaves-honduras.html
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.media.press.view&news_id=1932
It looks like they (the PC) are looking at possibly leaving El Salvador and Guatamala too.
As for the Peace Corps. I think when JFK imagined the Peace Corps he took the SF model of language, culture, and living with the population and threw in some left-leaning politics. I have never worked with active PC volunteers because they avoid the military for the most part. I have worked with some previous PC volunteers with mixed results. I know first hand that the situation in Mexico is more crazy than the media lets on. My question for 7th GRP, 20th GRP, everyone else is: Is the situation really this bad in Central America? Honduras specifically? Are Americans on the street in more danger than say Columbia? Or is this a Peace Corps specific problem?
A friend of mine is heading down to Honduras for a little while. I was putting some stuff together for him when I ran across this, the Peace Corps are leaving Honduras due to security concerns:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16300070
http://honduraspeacecorps.blogspot.com/2011/12/holiday-greetings-pc-leaves-honduras.html
http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.media.press.view&news_id=1932
It looks like they (the PC) are looking at possibly leaving El Salvador and Guatamala too.
As for the Peace Corps. I think when JFK imagined the Peace Corps he took the SF model of language, culture, and living with the population and threw in some left-leaning politics. I have never worked with active PC volunteers because they avoid the military for the most part. I have worked with some previous PC volunteers with mixed results. I know first hand that the situation in Mexico is more crazy than the media lets on. My question for 7th GRP, 20th GRP, everyone else is: Is the situation really this bad in Central America? Honduras specifically? Are Americans on the street in more danger than say Columbia? Or is this a Peace Corps specific problem?