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By PAUL DELANEY
Staff Reporter 

First trip to Mexico was an eye-opening experience

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Last updated 3/3/2016 at 9:16am



Until Feb. 18 I had never visited a so-called “Third World” country.

It may have seemed as though after experiencing the crazy driver who passed me in the center turn lane while I was slowing to the 40 mile-per-hour speed limit while approaching Four Lakes?

Or when I was behind the wheel and bouncing over those wonderful unpaved, pothole-strewn dirt streets in Spokane.

The term Third World, now synonymous with many struggling poor nations around the globe, was originally used to identify countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc following World War II....



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