TO LAY THE BLAME FOR CRIMES AT THE FEET OF "POVERTY" IS A COP OUT!!!!
If it were true, all poor people would be committing all the crime, they aren't!!
You are leaving out the new reason for all the senseless crimes here in the DR,..."DRUGS"!!!!
Both the use, therefore the need, and turf battles!
It starts at the highest political/military/ &police officials, down to the street dealers.
Who do you think just made it possible for Colombians to travel to the DR WITHOUT a visa????????
Why don't they just send ships from the DR navy to pick up the drugs in Colombia???
OR, ...DO THEY???????????????????????????????
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Yea, poverty, poverty, poverty. Crabs in a barrel is a poverty mind-set. I bet those two idiots wouldnt have fought over a piece of dry ass Dominican wheat bread. Why? There is no premium or exclusivity for that bullsht bread. But stuffed crust breadsticks?
Edgar: "Wow! I aint ever had nothin' like that."
Raul: "Lets split them."
Edgar: "No nigga, fuc you, get your own."
Raul: "Come on man, let me get some of them?"
Edgar: "Nope, get out of here, eat these old ass crackers"
Raul: "You aint sht man, I could just take them"
Edgar: "Go ahead, you might die trying"
See? You know as a fact this is the nonsense that goes on in every large urban city in the US and there need be no drugs to accelerate the fury these people have.
Why would I get into a fatal fight with you over some cheap ass shower shoes? You re flip flops arent any better than mine. But hey those fancy flops arent as desirable as those Puma trainers I see the reggaeton dudes wear in those faggy music videos. Those shoes mean I am better than you, I am more important than you because someone "over there" is either sending them to me or sending me the "Weter You'us" to buy them here.
Bro, this is the same **** you see in NY, DC, Philly and Boston every winter where some anti-social shthead teenage kid tries to mug another good kid for his winter coat or his cellphone or his watch or his bookbag or his iPad or his sneakers and the second kid dies from that altercation. Just a few months ago, some kid in Albany robbed another kid on suburban Albany County for some Air Jordans he posted on Craigslist and got sentenced to 7 years in prison because there was a mention of a handgun. And some of these guys are stupid, some are poor, some are foolish and short-sighted but in the DR the sht hits the fan because there are so many poor folks with big eyes on the Good Life with no way to get it. Those iconic items they see on TV which dictate your self worth rule their minds.
How many women here do you know who HAVE TO HAVE a Louis Vuitton handbag but aint got $20US to put in it? How does that even work? I ve seen some of these handbags and they dont seem to be the Canal Street specials. Some of these bags appear to be real.
They watch TV and think those images are real. I know this. Some bonehead told me a couple of years ago in Pico Duarte that there are violent street gangs in Brooklyn because he saw it on TV. He said "he knew it for a fact because he had seen it in on TV."
BTW, those Ice Road Trucker Shows are staged.