"Puerto Rican boxing legend Hector “Macho” Camacho died on Saturday after his family decided to take him off life support. Camacho — the onetime world lightweight champion who knocked out icons like Sugar Ray Leonard but whose life outside the ring could be as sordid as his career inside it was glorious — had been brain-dead since last Tuesday night, Nov. 21, when he was shot in the head outside a bar in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. It was the most high-profile reminder yet that Puerto Rico has a violent-crime plague on its hands: its murder rate today is 23 per 100,000 people, about five times that of the U.S., the worst homicide tally the island has ever suffered.
"Not surprisingly, Puerto Rico is dealing with a raft of other social crises, from a 45% poverty rate to 15% unemployment to a median annual income of less than $15,000, well below the U.S. poverty line. ...
"Puerto Rico’s statehood bid has to be approved by the U.S. Congress, and there are a host of reasons why it should be granted. The brutal demise of Camacho reflects perhaps the most urgent: making Puerto Rico the 51st state would not only help the island of 4 million people pull out of its violent tailspin; it could also help the U.S. create a more modern law-enforcement model inside Latin America and the Caribbean, where public insecurity is possibly an even heavier drag on development today than poverty and inequality are. ..."
http://world.time.com/2012/11/25/why-the-murder-of-macho-camacho-underscores-the-case-for-puerto-rican-statehood/#ixzz2DMtk3Ccz
This reads like a parody meant to portray a grotesquely politically correct or otherwise motivated bureau chief who knows nothing about: (1) the real world; (2 ) the natural resource limits of the United States, especially when it comes to our being able to pull countless third-word peoples, countlessly multiplying, out of centuries of poverty; (3) inherent differences among different populations upon the earth; (4) how fashionable utopian intentions almost always end up just getting more people dead; and (5) possibly what happens when journalists lose all pretense of objectivity and go flamingly native.
I am not completely unsympathetic to third-world peoples seemingly forever mired in poverty, crime, corruption and violence, and seemingly forever said to be just on the verge of progressing out of those problems, but I have more respect for them than demonstrated by the liberal mainstream media. They are humans just like we are. They need to solve their own problems just like we do. Ultimately they will have to. We are not gods. They are not our children.
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