Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Americans?
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:33:15 -0400

At 06:42 PM 9/30/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hmmm,
>
>Funny, when I was  in Honduras after Hurricane Mitch, a so called "natural
>disaster", yes, there had been an awful lot of assistance provided by the
>US. But then the huge amount of deforestation which made the disaster so bad
>in the first place seemed to be a direct result of US and US multinational
>involvement/exploitation of the country.


Side note here, Tim - the Honduran general who has been in charge of the 
reforestation program in Honduras for several years is also the owner of 
the largest lumber company in Honduras.  Slight conflict of interest 
there.  Honduras does not have the reputation of the second most corrupt 
government in the world for nothing.  On topic - I used my Leica's to 
photograph the destruction caused by Mitch to raise money for the relief 
efforts.  In June I visited tent cities where hundreds of families have 
been living in tents for nine months while they are rebuilding their 
homes.  Now it is flooding again in the areas where they have started to 
rebuild.  I don't know how much more the rural people can take before they 
just give up.  After only two weeks, I was ready for a hot bath and a place 
to sit anywhere that wasn't muddy!!!  My Leica M's were fine in the monsoon 
rains and mud.  You really don't have to baby them.

I agree that most Central Americans seem to be sensitive about the fact 
that they are Americans, too.  There is even a Spanish word for United 
Statesians!!

Leically,

Tina


Tina Manley, ASMP
http://www.tinamanley.com