Hi list.

Before posting all the replies to the fabulous information you all
kindly posted back, I want to apologize for these very late postings.

In what I want to call a big irony from life, the main reason my wife
and I want to leave this country as fast as possible (crime) played an
infamous move on us last Friday (19th). I would not like to get too
emotional so I will only mention it involved 4 armed men, our car,
theirs, a driving chase and the attempt disposition to rob or hijack
my wife and me when we were beginning a road trip to enjoy a national
holiday in the beach. Sigh.

Don=92t be too surprised. Here, you don=92t have to be rich to be
kidnapped, there is an infamous operandi called =93express kidnap=94 where
you get caught in the morning of any given day and the perpetrators
call your family and free you in the night after getting paid the
equivalent of US$ 1-2K, sometimes even less. It is a very common and
profitable =93activity=94 and national security forces are overwhelmed and
surpassed in their efforts to fight this, and a lot of times members
of this forces are part of the perpetrators band. It is a big shame.

Please, I don=92t want this post to initiate political wars or to, in
any way, disturb the usually calm discussions in this great place of
the net. In any case any observation or remark I could gladly deal it
off-list. I just wanted to clear things up as I did not want to appear
uninterested in the information you all wrote back because it
apparently took me more than ten days to comment on them. I do care. A
lot.

Once again, thanks. This list was/is/will-always-be awesome.

Regards,

Carlos.

-- =

http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive
View/change your membership options at
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist