Truths
that kept hidden from people while the racism grows
by system
failure
When the
most authentic representative of the big capital is attacking on the
Mexican immigrants, saying that they are drug dealers and rapists,
you should be at least suspicious. Recently, Donald Trump expanded
his far-Right rhetoric on Muslims, by saying that they should be banned from entering the US.
What Mr.
Trump didn't tell us, and will never do, is that the US imperialism
is heavily responsible for the massive immigration of Latin Americans
to the United States in the past decades. This is something that is
often hidden from the American public, and anyone who uses the
extreme far-Right rhetoric, without telling the whole story, simply
plants the seeds of hate.
From the
wars for territorial expansion that gave the US control of Puerto
Rico, Cuba and more than half of Mexico, to the covert operations
that imposed oppressive military regimes in the Dominican Republic,
Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, the award-winning documentary
Harvest of Empire unveils
a moving human story that is largely unknown to the great majority of
citizens in the US. “They never teach us in school that the huge
Latino presence here is a direct result of our own government’s
actions in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America over many
decades - actions that forced millions from that region to leave
their homeland and journey north,” says Juan González, award-winning journalist and author of the
book upon which the documentary is based.
Robert
White, former US ambassador to El Salvador reveals that “If you
had to pick one date where US foreign policy towards Latin America
went wrong, the date would be 1954 and the place: Guatemala. That was
the beginning of this terrible, terrible attitude that the United
States developed towards Latin America and, particularly, towards
Central America, where change became our enemy.”
From the
documentary we also learn that Guatemala was one of the few countries
in Latin America that, after World War ll, actually experienced a
period of democratic rule. President Jacobo Arbenz was determined to
reduce widespread poverty by effecting major land reform in
Guatemala. Only 2% of the owners controlled 75% of the arable land.
Out of all of those, the United Fruit Company was the largest, with
some 600,000 acres of property.
In the US
Government, John Foster Dulles, who was the Secretary of State under
president Eisenhower; his brother Allen Dulles, who was the head of
the CIA - had both been law partners in the main law firm that
represented United Fruit Company. Melvin Goodman, former CIA division
chief says that “The feeling was we could very easily overthrow
this progressive government and make it a lot easier for the United
Fruit Company and other American businesses to operate in Central
America.”
The CIA got
heavily involved in managing public opinion. It created the image of
Arbenz as a crazy radical. And it was a systematic effort,
mobilization and financing of opposition forces, until the Arbenz
government was overthrown.
A vicious
repression of all progressives and supporters of the Arbenz
government ensued. Guatemala really began to establish a new pattern
whereby the United States government used covert operations, employed
local proxies to destabilize and overthrow governments in the region.
A civil war erupted in the county that lasted 20 years. The brutality
of the US-backed regimes forced many people to flee to the United
States. That common US policy nearly to all the Latin America, in
order to promote the interests of the US big capital, created massive
waves of immigrants towards the US soil.
But if we
examine the origins of today's Middle East chaos, we will find them
again in the US imperialism. And again, the impact is similar. Many
of the architects of the 2003 invasion in Iraq were found involved
with companies profiteering from the war. An
invasion which, as Tony
Blair admitted,
led to the appearance of the ISIS monster.
As the US
and its allies insisted on supporting the anti-Assad militants, the
ISIS nightmare became stronger and spread the terror in the
population. The result: thousands of refugees flee, mostly to Europe
this time, due to geographic proximity. Refugees come from all the
regions that the US have intense presence, like Afghanistan. As has been revealed, CIA is using
similar methods to that in Latin America, through paramilitary forces
who attack on civilians. Naturally, these people will flee to save
their lives. What would you do in their position?
It seems
that the new round of the US imperial intervention in Latin America
and Middle East is done with the known methods. Maduro has lost the
recent elections in Venezuela due to the US economic war which was
conducted with the help of the opposition funded by US organizations.
But it was also a result of a general economic war using Saudi Arabia
and the weapon of oil. By keeping oil prices at historical low
levels, the US tried to damage severely both the Russian and the
Venezuelan economy.
What is new,
and probably shows that the US empire declines, is that the latest round
of imperialist intervention both in Latin America and Middle East, is
a result of a nervous reaction by the empire against the geopolitical
and economic expansion of its major opponents in the global arena.
While in the past the global spheres of influence were more or less
unofficially determined by all major powers, today's fierce
antagonism for global dominance leaves no room for "silent
agreements". But the declining empire is more dangerous than
ever, and will use all means to retain its dominance.
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