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The Situation
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“Give us your poor, your tired, your humble masses yearning to be free.”
What’s not often pointed out in the heat of the border debate is that the United States fomented the border problem by propping up right wing dictatorships in Central and South America for decades.
People like Somoza, Batista, Trujillo, the infamous four families of Guatemala and the military dictatorship in El Salvador, which assassinated a famous priest and four nuns for having the audacity to try to help the poor.
Kissinger’s CIA also assassinated a democratically elected leader, Salvador Allende in Peru and replaced him with the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet.
He killed 3,197 people and tortured 29,000 more. Then there was the “Dirty War” in Argentina where protesting students were flown offshore in helicopters and, while bound, thrown into the sea. The children of their murdered political opponents were adopted by the members of the military junta. of.
This was all done in the name of anti-communism. But it was mainly to ensure that American corporations like United Fruit Company could rake in obscene profits for their shareholders. This exploitation created such dire economic circumstances in their home countries that the populace was forced to migrate north in order to survive. Our beloved country is simply…
