With the victory of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in the Bolivian elections on October 18, the de facto coup government presided over by Jeanine Áñez, has requested visas from the United States for its officials according to a US-based network.
Hadn't actually thought about this for a while and have lost track of all the reactionaries that have fled to the US. Mind naming a few to help rile me up about this shit?
South Vietnamese that assisted the U.S. A classmate last semester wouldn’t stop going on and on about being part of the Jorai an indigenous group in vietnam and his dad fought for the US.
South Koreans after the fall of the dictatorship.
Cubans the most famous gusanos.
Venezolanos after Chavez won and stayed winning because of the failed coup (my parents brought us here soon after). Additionally one of our dictators sought asylum and lived in Miami
Mexicans and latinx on the American side of the border joined the Border Patrol, all the time.
The filipino mafia in the navy.
just a few I can think of, off the top of my head.
First thing that comes to mind for me is following WWII the US snatching up as many Nazi scientists as they could before they could be tried for their crimes, so that the US could put them to use in advancing its own imperialist war machine.
There's a Louis Malle film, . . .and the Pursuit of Happiness, that shows a disabled Salvadoran man being deported for no fucking reason, obviously being sent to his death. It then cuts to Jose Somoza , brother of the Nicaraguan dictator, giving the documentary crew a tour of his lovely Miami home where he lives in complete prosperity. A perfect and nauseating encapsulation of U.S. foreign policy in two domestic scenes.
Yeah but our homegrown reactionaries don't do stem. This is my new character: American leftist that's mad that America sucks so much it can't even do fascism competently.
When the feds bring this post up next time I'm crossing the border into the US I just show them the Aaron Sorkin Jeff Bridges scene from newsroom and they all clap.
The US is like a dumping ground for the reactionaries of the world.
I was thinking about writing about this recently!
Hadn't actually thought about this for a while and have lost track of all the reactionaries that have fled to the US. Mind naming a few to help rile me up about this shit?
South Vietnamese that assisted the U.S. A classmate last semester wouldn’t stop going on and on about being part of the Jorai an indigenous group in vietnam and his dad fought for the US.
South Koreans after the fall of the dictatorship.
Cubans the most famous gusanos.
Venezolanos after Chavez won and stayed winning because of the failed coup (my parents brought us here soon after). Additionally one of our dictators sought asylum and lived in Miami
Mexicans and latinx on the American side of the border joined the Border Patrol, all the time.
The filipino mafia in the navy.
just a few I can think of, off the top of my head.
First thing that comes to mind for me is following WWII the US snatching up as many Nazi scientists as they could before they could be tried for their crimes, so that the US could put them to use in advancing its own imperialist war machine.
The rockets go up
Who cares where they come down
That's not my department
Says Wernher Von Braun
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Operation paperclip was just the tip of the iceberg. It's practically a limited hang out.
There's a Louis Malle film, . . .and the Pursuit of Happiness, that shows a disabled Salvadoran man being deported for no fucking reason, obviously being sent to his death. It then cuts to Jose Somoza , brother of the Nicaraguan dictator, giving the documentary crew a tour of his lovely Miami home where he lives in complete prosperity. A perfect and nauseating encapsulation of U.S. foreign policy in two domestic scenes.
The man who shot Victor Jara.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chile-rights-jara-idUSKBN1KA2MG
Yasha Levine has had some good writing on this recently: https://yasha.substack.com/p/weaponized-immigrants-and-the-history
I think he was on a Radio War Nerd episode focused on this subject as well.
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Yeah but our homegrown reactionaries don't do stem. This is my new character: American leftist that's mad that America sucks so much it can't even do fascism competently.
When the feds bring this post up next time I'm crossing the border into the US I just show them the Aaron Sorkin Jeff Bridges scene from newsroom and they all clap.