Ok, the JLA is on an undercover mission to Santa Bertriza, a small South American country, that is using meta-humans to support the tyrannt that is running this country. They are also investigating Del Canto, Santa Bertriza's neighbor, who also appears to have a meta-human program, and is also using it to hold it's country in an iron dictatorship. Now in between the 2 nations is a strip of land, La Cintura Del Milagros (the belt of miracles). "Adesolate strip of land that separates Del Canto from Santa Bertriza. . . . . . A few miles of dirt. Scrub brush, and dead wood that neither nation has seen fit to claim." Now while both countries are suspicious of each other, and concerned about who stole what secrets from whom, they have remained at an uneasy peace, because it really wouldn't benefit either dictator to get pulled into a long drawn out battle. The meta-humans that both countries are manipulating, however, are even more suspicious of their neighbors. And appear to be very paranoid. So when Wally show up in La Cintura Del Milagros using his powers, both sides, who have people in the hills watching the strip and are just waiting for an excuse to pounce, assume that it is the other side breaking their uneasy peace. This therefore, is where the war will start. This really reads like another chapter of the JLA Elite series that came out last year. Howard Chaykin is awesome with the espionage and spy type storyline. He also does a great job of coming up with these fictional world crisis situations, but still makes them believable and relevant to the current social order. My hat's off to him. I can't wait to see how this one turns out.
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