Migrants
Citizens from Venezuela, Cuba, and Central America were approached by Mexican immigration authorities when they attempted to continue their march in a caravan, a practice that migrants carry out from time to time to demand a safer environment during their transit through Aztec territory. The caravan takes place in the context of the electoral process that this Sunday will summon millions of Mexicans to the polls to elect their representatives at national, provincial, and local levels. The authorities promised to help the migrants, but they are vaccinated against their siren songs.
“All of us migrants are together, we are going to continue together in the name of Jesus Christ[;] now it has become difficult because of the water and because of the children. [If] they support us, if they really want to help us, [...] they [can] go together with us as far as [possible],” said a Honduran. “They want to send us back again, they don't want us to go any further,” said a Cuban. “Instead of helping us to leave, what they are doing is that they are turning backward the whole process we are going through,” said another Honduran migrant.
SourceMeanwhile, other “luckier” Latin Americans who are already at the Rio Grande are facing very high temperatures amid a persistent heat wave. Stranded at the border, they have to deal with the inclement sun and the aggressive posture of Greg Abbott's agents. “It is very difficult because during the day the heat is unbearable, there is nowhere to hide, so we have to cover ourselves with blankets and the things we bring with us,” a Colombian told EFE news agency. In Ciudad Juárez, the health system assisted a 10-month-old baby with severe dehydration and a 10-year-old boy who presented himself to a hospital with skin abrasions.
SourceBukele
On the most important note this Saturday for the region, the Bitcoin promoter Nayib Bukele resumed his position as the head of the Salvadoran nation, protected by a citizenry that thanks him for the results of his controversial security policy. “If it were not for him, we could not be here [in the historic civic square] at any time. Neither us nor you [journalists]. The historic center had been taken over [by criminals]. They [had subdued] the whole country,” a woman in her sixties told EFE. “Bukele forever,” people chanted during the inauguration ceremony, which was attended by leaders such as Javier Milei and Daniel Noboa. “The miracles we have seen in this country are not few. If God so wishes, many more will come,” said Bukele, who forced the political system so as not to leave the old Country Club. Now he says he will concentrate on the economy, probably employing tough austerity policies.
Honored to be at @nayibbukele’s inauguration to support a leader willing to fight the globalist for the benefit of his people. We need more like him and El Salvador has a bright future with him at the helm. 🇺🇸🇸🇻 #elsalvador pic.twitter.com/vhze8DTO39
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 1, 2024
The withheld food scandal
An Argentine judge has ordered the raid of a warehouse containing tons of foodstuffs that Javier Milei's government has refused to distribute, in a gross display of its contempt for the most vulnerable, hard hit by its measures. Among the products some have expired and others that are about to. Meanwhile, people are starving and the Ministry of Human Capital does not supply the soup kitchens, alluding to certain irregularities found in their operation during the previous administration.
On this issue, the opposition has managed to put the liberal Pink House against the ropes, with some medium-range officials being used as scapegoats. Initially, the troubled Libertarian administration had claimed that the food was intended to be used in case of catastrophes, but this turned out to be nonsense given the reported expiration dates of some products like powdered milk. In his order, the judge refers to the Ministry of Human Capital as “a deconcentrated agency of the federal public administration [...] that publicly self-questions its operation”.
Food in raided warehouse (source).
My understanding is that such dates are often 'sell by' recommendations, rather than dates after which food products are no longer nutritious or safe to eat. I am gifted food often, because of my operations generating goodwill rather than financial encomiums, and some of the people that gift me acquire their food from food banks. Food banks themselves sometimes attain to food that isn't salable due to blemishes on produce, or dents on cans, or expiration of 'sell by' dates. It is true that sometimes such dents or the age of the product either reduces it's quality substantially, or below the threshold of utility, but this, I find, is rare, and for the most part I treat these dates are advisory at best.
IOW, I often eat food that has expired, and only very rarely are such products no longer useful.
Regarding the caravans migrants form, I have only seen pictures of such things, but I would think that, especially when vulnerable women and children are present, this would be the SOP, in order to deter predatory criminals. I note that reports of many waves or groups of migrants either do not include women and children, or very few, and it makes sense that young men comprise the majority of illegal migrants due to socio-cultural factors.
It is unfortunate that the iconic goal of migrants, to become resident in prosperous Western democracies, is becoming increasingly impossible and fantastic, as the prosperity, democratic governance, and even the nations themselves, are declining, and likely to cease to exist soon. I hear from Europeans rumblings of these things, and observe them myself in America. The arbitrary nature of law and jurisprudence in America has become quite pronounced. Where once there was a reason to consider the country a shining city on a hill, that has been ruined by surveillance and police state operations, and finished off by rabidly corrupt courts and the penal industrial complex. The very egregious dystopian tolerance of larceny that has been effected deliberately by Soros and similar funding of local and regional elections of prosecutorial positions isn't really a death blow to such systems, but is merely icing on the sweet, more an author's signature on his work than the art itself.
The tin pot dictatorial nature of US governance is not caused by the recent political show trials of Trump, but rather that event has revealed the totality of the rot that has overcome the civil mechanisms that began their decline when the USG couped itself in 1963. The spooks have been running things, and increasingly poorly, ever since. Perhaps 9/11 is a good date for the actual demise of most of the civic structural components, as the blatant enmity and opportunistic farming of populations by governmental and corporate agencies was so very obvious in, and since, that event. There is a kind of zealotry that fosters denial and faith in false edifices of religion, that typically creates inquisitory violence and predation, and this has increased all my life long in America. Zionism is perhaps the most egregious example of this.
I have never, as an adult, had any expectation of justice or security to be had from police or the courts, and this contrasts sharply with the expectations of my parent's generation. Rather I have seen that opportunistic parasites and predators on society use police and the courts to harm their opponents politically or civilly, and I cannot remember ever expecting police to resolve crime, but have handled thefts and financial predation myself with my social assets and connections. Being poorly associated politically has resulted in limited success at particularly the latter endeavors, so much that I today eschew financial mechanisms as completely as possible.
These are clearly consequences of collapsing empire. The great visibility of the political attacks on Trump beginning with the surveillance of his campaign by Obama governmental agencies in 2015 but reveals the rot that destroyed the functionality of civic institutions, inherited and exacerbated, not created, by Obama. Trumps notoriety and self-promotion makes it glaring, but the attacks on him and his political base aren't in any way causal of the rot, that in fact have made his entire schtick powerful to begin with. Trump is a creature of that rot from the get go. It is ironic to believe it is harming him now, and in fact, I do not. I believe he is actually extraordinarily masterful at manipulating corruption, and has himself engineered the electoral fraud in 2020, the failure to prosecute or oppose it, the media opposition to himself, and the current show trials against him, all to create the obvious cult of personality that has resulted.
Because of his mentoring by Roy Cohn, I am aware of his powerful extortionate competence, and his execrable appointments, of Garland, Wray, Comey, and many, many more (perhaps most obviously Giuliani), are explicable if extortionate power over these parties is understood to predicate their appointment. Giuliani's complete failure to present even one item of evidence in his self-defense regarding the election fraud is not explicable in any other way I can devise, but is easily explicable as extortion of a kiddy diddler in my understanding. Such is the specific strength of Trump, and this further indicts American jurisdictions particularly and generally.
Thanks!
I agree with the point about “expired” food. However, the issue here is that it makes no sense to withhold food in a context as tense as the one many Argentines are experiencing.
Regarding migrants and the so-called “American dream”, the truth is that whatever they find in America will seem like a paradise compared to the sad Latin American reality that I daily review. Their (potential) lives there will focus on much more superficial aspects, without entering into the sinuous and tenebrous political context you describe.
I have a cousin living in Florida, and she is less aware of American politics than I am. Her focus is on working for the dollars to support her parents and our grandmother here in Cuba, paying her bills, eating decently, the occasional outing with her husband and son, and drinking Modelo beer. That's all for her. Thanks again for putting out some strong context that brings real value to the content I publish.
I undertake to read your every post, because the people of Latin America hold the keys to the future, or will if they can grasp them. Many millions of them have yet to get a chance to build the American dream, despite living in the Americas. As decentralization continues to lower the bar in terms of cost to own means of production, it is they that have never before been able to reach for that brass ring that have dreamed of the chance, and will take their best shot at it, while jaded and parasitic NEETS in the USA think that sucking at the teat of welfare is all they have to do to live out their days, albeit poor and harshly. They relinquished their American dream for EBT cards. I have little hope for them, nor find them inspiring.