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ripped1997 said:
yo puerto rican need stop hating on dominincan it not there falut that there poor puerto rican need take look at them self before say anything im not hating on puerto rican im saying something
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deelt

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TD - I just saw your update prior to my writing. Thanks!

Morocco is in northern Africa but it is no Congo. So I wouldn't necessarily worry about quality of life issues. However, what I would worry about is that Morocco is a holding/transit spot in the sexual slave trade. Many of these women are forced into a slave trade and from there. They are sold to rings in Spain, Italy, Turkey, Holland, etc. (see some of the links)

I think you have every right to be worried. I totally feel you about these folks that have more gear than you do and live better than you do but their own greed overtakes them. About 14 or so members of my family just got the okay to move to the US and I am hard pressed to understand why so many want to come.

My prayers are with your friend. I think she is regretting her decision.

Here are some links I saw on TV recently about what's going on in the business:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/needs/malarek.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/needs/finding.html

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/printable/dying_suriname_print.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1080681

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1956879

It's sad indeed.



Talldrink said:
They only pay attention to the tales of the people who got there by Yola and not the stories about people dying...

I recently found out about my friend who supposedly left to go to Spain - thats what she was told. What they did was take her to Morocco and they are supposed to cross into Spain through a Yola. This was 2 weeks ago and no word on her whereabouts... Larry, AZB and Robert, you guys met her :(

The SAD part is that when I called her family, they were told she was in Marruecos (Spanish for Morocco) and they all think is this exotic location right near Spain - almost like a 'holding place' or a prelude to getting to the Magical Spain. When I asked them if they knew that Morocco is in AFRICA and that she had to cross the Gibraltar Strait (the friggin sea for God's sake!) they had NO clue what this girl had gotten herself into. So now everyone is worried, did they think it would be that easy to just get into Spain?? For all that trouble, why not go into a Central American country, at least you know the language! If you are willing to cross mountains on foot and take yolas and whatnot...

None of it makes sense to me. This girl does NOT have 10 kids to support or a husband that is beating her. She was young and beautiful and had a job and lived well. She had more gear than me (b/c all of us brought her so much from the States). But her eyes got full of stars when friends went back to buy jeepetas and everybody is getting tummy tucks.

This whole thing sucks big time and I already miss my friend!

BTW - Don Juan, your post is not a fair statement. Yes, there are a lot of people that do not treat others right, but it can be said that Dominicans are guilty of the same sin in the way some treat Haitians. This is going against the original post, I do not want to highjack - but I had to make mention of the fact that as long as people think they have power over others, they will take advantage of it. And yes, I do believe that it is not a fair thing to do. I dont like to say that All Puertoricans are guilty of this, b/c I do not believe that I should be included when people say that ALL Dominicans treat Haitians bad...
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Talldrink

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Thanks Deelt - great reading...

My friend is safe in San Cristobal again. Hopefully she wont try it again!
 
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