Biden had just given Morales “the talk,” in which he set out the United States’ expectations for Guatemala, and she recounted how the other leaders all seemed to remember having that conversation with Biden at some point too.) While there, Biden pitched his vision for the region, in which the three so-called Northern Triangle countries could work to be more open societies and tackle the “root causes” of mass migration—all with American financial and political backing.
Christ. This is how you treat disobedient children. Not nations.
that he envisions “a hemisphere that was secure, middle class and democratic, from the northern reaches of Canada to the southern tip of Chile.”
What he means here is secure for the middle (petit boug) class controlled by them and their aspirational interests in supporting the capital.
“The capacity to make leaders and people in Latin America feel like they’re being heard again by the United States is going to be essential
At least we know this is not going to work in Chile. Nice words won't do shit anymore against the hate for neoliberalism they have.
US embassies in Central America are only concerned about stopping migration, and even then it's only on the most superficial level.
The only language they know is militarising the police for "transnational security" and for beating migrants, all so some braindead white families in middle America don't get spooked seeing brown people in their lifeless strip malls and the government can pretend that everything is fine and totally not collapsing all around us.
You can show them all the evidence on militarization just making things worse, on the effects of decades of US-backed military rule, on climate change and extractivism, and all the myriad reasons people migrate. All they hear is "more money for police".
Christ. This is how you treat disobedient children. Not nations.
What he means here is secure for the middle (petit boug) class controlled by them and their aspirational interests in supporting the capital.
At least we know this is not going to work in Chile. Nice words won't do shit anymore against the hate for neoliberalism they have.
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It means would be coup leaders will be confident they'll get the CIA support as promised.
US embassies in Central America are only concerned about stopping migration, and even then it's only on the most superficial level.
The only language they know is militarising the police for "transnational security" and for beating migrants, all so some braindead white families in middle America don't get spooked seeing brown people in their lifeless strip malls and the government can pretend that everything is fine and totally not collapsing all around us.
You can show them all the evidence on militarization just making things worse, on the effects of decades of US-backed military rule, on climate change and extractivism, and all the myriad reasons people migrate. All they hear is "more money for police".
Death to Amerikkka, of course :amerikkka: