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March 13, 2009 |
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The Chaplain's Corner I am ninety miles south of Tijuana, Mexico as I write this Corner. A phrase I have heard several times since arriving translates as, "When America catches a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia." People here are hurting - more than usual - from two sources. One is global recession afflicting all of us, the poor more acutely than the non-poor. The other is irrational fear born of sensationalistic journalism. American news reports have made a visit to Mexico sound like something only a person with a strong death wish would do. So would-be visitors cancel vacations. Study abroad sites shut down their Mexico programs. Church groups post-pone mission trips here. Meanwhile, I walk the streets freely among friendly people whose towns experience grinding povery but little violent crime. As Susquehanna learned during the so-called cancer scare, reckless reporting is not a victimless crime. I look into the eyes of a boy whose newly-jobless family lives in a home made of cardboard boxes, and I call it by its biblical name: sin. |
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