From yesterday's Yale Daily News - Ana Munoz challenges one columnist's imperialist aesthetics



I don't doubt that the "warm breeze," "shadows of palms," "temperate glow on volcanoes in the distance," "dirt paths and dense vegetation" made this American Eli feel like he was "returning to the basics." I just think that reaction creates a more problematic dynamic than merely acting as an impetus for Broussard and his colleagues to seek positive change for Nicaragua. Just as the developing world should not serve as a strip mine of natural resources and temporary labor for the United States, it is also inappropriate to see the bulk of our hemisphere as a kind of spiritual getaway, a place for stressed Americans to rediscover their souls when momentarily faced with staggering indigence and social injustice.