"No country has ever treated me so badly," Michael Yon wrote in a Facebook message.
"Not China. Not Vietnam. Not Afghanistan. Definitely not Singapore or India or Nepal or Germany, not Brunei, not Indonesia, or Malaysia, or Kuwait or Qatar or United Arab Emirates.
No country has treated me with the disrespect can that can be expected from our border bullies."
IT IS the legend that drew legions of explorers and adventurers to their deaths: an ancient empire of citadels and treasure hidden deep in the Amazon jungle.
Now, however, the doomed dreamers have been proved right: there was a great civilisation.