Ecuadorean councilwoman shot dead Friday

[Judi Lynn]

3. In countries with a massive poor population, wealthy power-directed groups can quickly tap desperate, poor people

to do their dirty work for them. All that's ever needed is ruthless people at the top and desperate people at the bottom.

Keeping a constantly desperate poor majority insures a constant supply of assassins. Tha t has been continual in all poor countries, or countries controlled by wealthy outside interests who depend upon the natural resources, or the cheap labor populations, or wildly corrupt brutal politicians who work for them, at the top.

No progressive, no concerned or courageous politicians, journalists, or social activists ever is not considered a target. It really helps them keep the resistance to a minimum, clearly!