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I spent a couple of my teenage years in Ecuador

Submitted January 20, 2005 - 6:41 pm by Don Henry Ford Jr.
I saw three year old children that couldn't walk for lack of nutrition. Then I saw what happened when my mom gave a family a loaf of bread and a liter of milk a day.

To be sure, the excess luxury we now enjoy in the United States is a crime and a sin when others do without basic needs.

I remember a gardener. An indian. I tried to show him how to assemble a puzzle. He forced pieces of differing colors and patterns where they would not fit. No matter how I tried, I could not teach him this concept, for he had missed out. Not one nutritious meal, but nearly all of them. Not one day in school, but an entire education.

There were many others like him down there, without a clue of the way this modern world works. They serve as fodder for this thing called a new world economy. Democracy is useless to them. They can't make sound decisions on their own behalf.

What should they do? Chunk spears at a F-16 barreling down on their ass?

Central and South American countries have a history of oppression and repression of the indiginous peoples also, a history not unlike that of the United States, but of their own making. It continues to this day.

And these indiginous people are defenseless.

It is up to us that can understand and do know how things work to defend these people or some day you will look up and say, "Remember when there were Aucas in Ecuador?"

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