March 10
GUEST: Mariel Fiori, a professional journalist from Argentina and co-founder and managing editor of La Voz, a Spanish magazine distributed in the Hudson Valley, talks about the needs and rights of the Latinx community in an age of heightened racism against immigrants.
We are still here
The many wars the US has instigated in Central America have pushed tens of thousands towards our boarders. So to has the climate crisis, perpetuated by the US and their giant oil companies. Latin America has been colonized by the US for centuries, of course. But more recently the bloodbaths are more ubiquitous and the warming climate has made crops impossible. Thanks to colonization, a million people will be headed for our boarders.
Instead of trying to end these wars of exploitation and dominance, the US has increased spending on military arms and training. In Central America, countries are either with the bully of the north or against it. Nicaragua insists on electing a socialist as president. Honduras has just freed itself from a US imposed dictator. Will the US ever keep its bloody hand off other people's land?
The right wing now uses immigration to fan the flames of discontent in the US. What our military and our corporations have done to Central America now plays a part in moving our country to the right. That is the hidden story of what the empire has done in this hemisphere. It is not such a difficult history to understand. But our media works overtime to obscure these realities from the people.
One way to push back is to welcome immigrants and to support their desperate quest to have a better life. In so doing, we will expose the evils of colonizing and exploiting our neighbors to the south.
