I've had to make many, many visits on business to the shithole south of the border and over a half-dozen other countries in Central and South America.
I have seen first-hand and close up their filthy, reeking, enormous slums and favelas.
I've never gone there by design, but when you're in these countries you cannot avoid them.
I have no experience in the rural areas, but people there swarm to the urban slums, so conditions must be even worse.
No American, in the history of this country, has ever lived in anything even approaching the misery and deprivation of these hellish places.
Nutcase nadin is more accurate in her description of six feet of hail than in her opinion on degrees of poverty.