Another excellent essay, Thom. At the core is our "war on drugs" which has enabled the cartels, gang violence, rampant corruption and terror in Mexico. We made all this profitable with our draconian drug laws. The teeming numbers of immigrants at our souther border are a direct result of our drug policies.
Another excellent essay, Thom. At the core is our "war on drugs" which has enabled the cartels, gang violence, rampant corruption and terror in Mexico. We made all this profitable with our draconian drug laws. The teeming numbers of immigrants at our souther border are a direct result of our drug policies.
Nixon's legacy of a hopeless war has certainly been very profitable for the police, military, and drug dealers, as well as those who support them. If the demand is there, the supply will come. But you can go back much further and add many other terrible American policies, from Clinton's support of NAFTA as a "good deal" when it made small Mexican farms much less profitable, to Reagan and Bush's support of brutal paramilitary forces in El Salvador in the 1980s, to the CIA's overthrow of the legitimate government of Guatemala in 1954 and back to the Banana Wars of the early 20th Century and the long American support for the vicious Somoza Family's rule in Nicaragua. Throw in climate change, which has helped dry out the Guatemala-Honduras-Nicaragua "Northern Triangle", and it is no surprise that people flee Central America. With deep respect for the refugees, the phrase "chickens coming home to roost" is appropriate for the results of our long term economic and political policies.
Another excellent essay, Thom. At the core is our "war on drugs" which has enabled the cartels, gang violence, rampant corruption and terror in Mexico. We made all this profitable with our draconian drug laws. The teeming numbers of immigrants at our souther border are a direct result of our drug policies.
Nixon's legacy of a hopeless war has certainly been very profitable for the police, military, and drug dealers, as well as those who support them. If the demand is there, the supply will come. But you can go back much further and add many other terrible American policies, from Clinton's support of NAFTA as a "good deal" when it made small Mexican farms much less profitable, to Reagan and Bush's support of brutal paramilitary forces in El Salvador in the 1980s, to the CIA's overthrow of the legitimate government of Guatemala in 1954 and back to the Banana Wars of the early 20th Century and the long American support for the vicious Somoza Family's rule in Nicaragua. Throw in climate change, which has helped dry out the Guatemala-Honduras-Nicaragua "Northern Triangle", and it is no surprise that people flee Central America. With deep respect for the refugees, the phrase "chickens coming home to roost" is appropriate for the results of our long term economic and political policies.
Very true.