Homeless Poisoned in Colombia
by Jim Washburn
Poor people the world over just can't wait for the holidays. The nights light up with color, and the flailing sleet just makes everything glisten more. Cardboard shelters cave in like Graham crackers in a big glass of milk. Oops, Santa couldn't find your chimney!
Adding to the cheer, this season in Cali, Colombia----city motto: "Come Visit That Money You Had in the 70s"----a traditional custard pastry was handed out to the city's impoverished and homeless on New Year's Eve. But some as yet unknown but don't you suppose well-off gentrification types embellished tradition by adding ground glass and insecticide to the recipe, resulting in one person dying while another 44 were sickened. Jesus said the poor will always be with us, but they didn't have insecticide in his day.
File this one in the "Make me wanna holler, throw up both my hands" folder.
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