to be fair violence over there has gone from bad to much worse, the whole world bank thing has really crippled the country. Watch the documentary "life and debt" if you want to bum yourself out and learn about it.
But don't discount all of those rackmount 1 and 2 second digital delay units from the mid 80s. I've heard some good dub come out of them, and I've had a couple of them for years and still haven't stopped finding new ways to use them. They have a continuously variable sampling rate and do things modern digital delays won't do.