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What would you do if your village was subject to regular famine, had no economic opportunities or is subject to regular cartel violence? Starve? Die? Or look f
by omegaworks 10y ago
What would you do if your village was subject to regular famine, had no economic opportunities or is subject to regular cartel violence?
Starve? Die? Or look for any and every opportunity to feed your family?
They don't run the drug war, we do. They don't negotiate trade deals that collapse sustainable farming businesses, we do. They don't exert hegemonic power over the hemisphere, we do. They don't run businesses dependent on cheap displaced, marginalized labor, we do.
Whether you like it or not we are all connected. If you think a "yuuuge golden wall" or more deportation will do anything but shift around the underlying macroeconomic effects and migrant flows: congratulations you've bought the propaganda, hook line and sinker.