Unemployment is rampant on Hormuz and I notice drug addicts in the street, a rare sight in Qeshm.
Despite stiff competition from a succession of crises during his 17-year tenure as president, Blatter admitted that the charges of "rampant, systemic and deep-rooted corruption" presaged by dawn raids in Zurich and revealed by US authorities on Wednesday were "shocking and unprecedented" in their scale.
But the UNHCR notes that those in the three main nations of origin – Syria, Eritrea and Somalia – are escaping conflict and rampant rights abuses.
The US attorney general, Loretta Lynch, alleged "rampant, systemic and deep-rooted corruption", making it clear their investigation is in its early stages, despite six guilty pleas including Blazer's and the extraordinary bribery, fraud and money laundering charges in the indictment of 14 others.
To be fair, the scenario by with this could happen involves an entire flip of the script by the league's bottom feeders, but with optimism running rampant in San Jose, who's to say to won't happen.
But it was also a world of repression, pointless hierarchies, sexism, racism and absolutely rampant homophobia.
"Because we were called Wild, people assumed we were feral and rampant, barefoot in the street, with no adult supervision.
One of the premises is that many of the things we accept as "modern life" – rampant free markets, unregulated employers, hyper-surveillance of the public sector, a very powerful landlord class – are actually very old-fashioned.
15 min: Poland are utterly rampant, but still can't make that crucial breakthrough.
With the MDC now frozen out of government, there are concerns that corruption will run rampant while the people starve.
He described his country as a "low profile police state" with rampant corruption and few civil liberties.
