Your comments make my point about the inability of Central and South American countries to govern themselves. It leaves me wondering if it's genetic? When the odd “good leader” is chosen, he or she doesn't stay long, before the populous is chomping at the bit to elect another dictator (usually some prick from their military) with a line of bull$hit about how he's going to “fix” all their problems with Socialism. we went to PR for an annual sales meeting a number of years ago ( in place of our usual week in Hawaii). We never went back. Even San Juan was a comparative $hit hole of a city. While we were there, the wife of one of our number was taken ill and had to be hospitalized. The hospital staff stole the woman's jewelry and the care was so poor that her husband chartered a medivac jet and had her flown home to Atlanta to receive treatment.
Thanks for sharing your experience in Puerto Rico. What a nightmare for that poor woman and her husband. My only experience south of the border was a 7-day cruise with a work friend to the Mexican Riviera. I’d never been on a cruise before, and figured it was only 7 days, and would give me the chance to see what one was like. I hated it. I’ll never take another cruise ever again. The places we visited were clean, but I’m just not into stuff like that. Sure I’d like to visit the Inca, Aztec and Mayan ruins, but I can forego those if it means having to go south of the border ever again. Even the short time we were in San Diego prior to our cruise leaving, it was enough for me not to ever want to go back to California ever again. The only good thing was the San Diego Zoo. At least the animals there have four legs, and wings.