The Empire's biggest headache

[mahnmut]

While most media are helplessly parroting talking-points and treating the precious viewer with shallow interpretations from the video exchange of US televisions about what's going on around the Central American roads these days, a true and unseen phenomenon is unraveling down there. What's being carelessly presented to us as a trivial push of Latinos who've been enchanted by the tale of the American Dream, what's really happening is a brewing rebellion of the South against the North, of the poor against the wealthy, of the indignant against the deplorable.

Sure, we're talking about a reaction to social inequality and the unbearable living conditions that have been indirectly (or often, directly) generated by the US within their own backyard for two centuries now. It's the inability of these people to cope with their situation that is causing a second mass invasion that originated from Honduras and is threatening the Mexican-US border. The previous one was in March and it had 1,500 people. After a ton of threats about draconian measures from Washington unless it was stopped, the Mexican authorities somehow managed to absorb the bulk of the migrant flood on their territory.

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