The country had become wooded and the road they were now on ran straight between trees.

But this country, with a 90 percent literacy rate, could become just like its neighbors.

In 1980 when the country become independent it adopted the current name.

Report says the country is becoming more conservative in both politics and economics.

This country is becoming a police state and six million American children go to bed hungry every night.

But, really, who can read that and not feel genuine sadness for what this country has become?

What's changed is that we are the only ones left standing and other countries have become less tolerant of us.

The country is now becoming ever more marginalised in the world community.

The country became in all but the name a republic.