My friend told me... Two people looked at me and asked; "Why you are here...?" and I answered smiling; "... because YOU were there..."
My friend is dark skinned... from South Asia and the people bugging him were white Anglos... in London, England...
My friend added; "I just wanted to remind them that South Asia was the crown jewel of the British vast colonial empire... where once the sun never set...
They colonized for economic exploitation and never imagined that the colonial population will migrate to the metropolis...
They just wanted the riches without the population... they wanted the capital without the labour...
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Why they are running... ? 
Migrants, part of a caravan of thousands from Central America trying to reach the United States, return to Mexico after being hit by tear gas by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after attempting to illegally cross the border wall into the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, earlier this week. Adrees Latif/Reuters
Indeed,
Why they are running... ?
Because, like my friend reiterated... North Americans wanted the riches of Central America... without the people...
They wanted the cheap labour to stay in their countries... and provide cheap labour...
But,
U.S. border patrols rain tear gas on them... and mother and children run back...
The tear gas initiates the violent repudiation of HUMAN RIGHTS... migrants do have rights... at the border... refugees have rights at the border... It is the international law... and the tear gas violates the international law...
The migrants run... and the tear gas follows them...
... and migrant families run away...
Some are blaming the current executives of the 1%... but the truth is that both parties have identical policies when it comes to the foreign policy of the 1% in North America!
The 1% wants the profit that they make from Central America... coffee and banana plantations are proof of their greed... But North Americans and the executive of the 1%, whether red or blue or orange, wants the profits and not the people...
Check their policies... from liberal Carter to conservative Reagan and "nationalist" Trump...!
Indeed... Why are they running... ?
Indeed... Why are they running... ?
Check the policies... of both parties...
| What’s Driving That Refugee Caravan...? |
| Human Rights Watch, in a disturbing new report on life in El Salvador communities under gang rule, finds that the small country had 20,000 murders from 2014 to 2017. |
| Adjusted for population size, it would be equivalent to the United States having over one million murders in the same period. |
| The report also estimates that over one-third of municipalities in El Salvador are controlled by gangs, which rule through extortion and the ever-present threat of violence. |
| This is important context for the refugee caravan arriving at the southern United States border, where the Trump administration has deployed tear gas to prevent arrivals from requesting asylum. As we wrote when President Trump first threatened to prevent the refugees’ arrival, this is almost certainly almost certainly a violation of international law, though in practice there’s no real enforcement mechanism
The Salvadoran Civil War was a conflict between the military-led government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition or "umbrella organization" of several left-wing groups. A coup on October 15, 1979, led to the killings of anti-coup protesters by the government as well as anti-disorder protesters by the guerrillas, and is widely seen as the tipping point toward civil war.
The full-fledged civil war lasted for more than 12 years and saw extreme violence. It also included the deliberate terrorizing and targeting of civilians by the death squads death squads, the recruitment of child soldiers children and other violations of human rights, mostly done by the military. An unknown number of people disappeared disappeared during the conflict, and the UN reports that the war killed more than 75,000 people between 1980 and 1992. In 2016, the El Salvador Supreme Court ruled that the amnesty law was unconstitutional and that the El Salvador government could prosecute war criminals.
The United States contributed to the conflict by providing large amounts of military aid of $1–2 million per day to the government of El Salvador during both the Carter and Reagan administrations. The Salvadoran government was considered "friendly" and allies by the U.S. in the context of the Cold War. By May 1983, US officers took over positions in the top levels of the Salvadoran military, were making critical decisions and running the war.
And,
The Nicaraguan Civil War is more commonly known as the Nicaraguan Revolution. There were encompasses these events that made up the revolution: the rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s and the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) attempting to oust it, then the FSLN attempting to govern in Nicaragua from 1979-1990, and the Contra War between the FSLN and the Contras from 1981-1990.
In 1982, Somoza loyalists and people opposing the Sandinista, known as the Contra (for counter-revolution), or Nicaraguan Democratic Force, waged war against the Sandinista government.
The Contra were backed by the United States and its allies, while the FLSN was supported by the Soviet Union and its allies.
Also,
The Guatemalan Civil War ran from 1960 to 1996. It was fought between the government of Guatemala government and various leftist rebel groups supported chiefly by ethnic Maya Maya indigenous people and Ladino Ladino peasants, who together make up the rural poor. The government forces of Guatemala have been condemned for committing genocide against the Maya population of Guatemala during the civil war and for widespread human rights violations human rights violations against civilians.
Democratic elections during the Guatemalan Revolution in 1944 and 1951 had brought popular leftist governments to power, but a United States-backed coup d'état in 1954 installed the military regime of Carlos Castillo Armas, who was followed by a series of conservative military dictators. In 1970, Colonel Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio became the first of a series of military dictators representing the Institutional Democratic Party or PID. The PID dominated Guatemalan politics for twelve years through electoral frauds favoring two of Col. Carlos Arana's proteges (Gen. Kjell Eugenio Laugerud Garcia in 1974 and Gen. Romeo Lucas Garcia in 1978). The PID lost its grip on Guatemalan politics when General Efraín Ríos Montt, together with a group of junior army officers, seized power in a military coup on 23 March 1982. In the 1970s continuing social discontent gave rise to an insurgency among the large populations of indigenous people and peasants, who traditionally bore the brunt of unequal land tenure. During the 1980s, the Guatemalan military assumed almost absolute government power for five years; it had successfully infiltrated and eliminated enemies in every socio-political institution of the nation, including the political, social, and intellectual classes. In the final stage of the civil war, the military developed a parallel, semi-visible, low profile but high-effect, control of Guatemala's national life.
It is estimated that 200,000 people were killed or "disappeared" during the conflict. As well as fighting between government forces and rebel groups, the conflict included, much more significantly, a large-scale, coordinated campaign of one-sided violence by the Guatemalan state against the civilian population from the mid-1960s onward...
See the report below... |
Tom Gibb in The Guardian...
San Salvador.
In the bright morning sunlight of March 24 1980, a car stopped outside the Church of the Divine Providence. A lone gunman stepped out, unhurried. Resting his rifle on the car door, he aimed carefully down the long aisle to where El Salvador's archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was saying mass. A single shot rang out. Romero staggered and fell. The blood pumped from his heart, soaking the little white disks of scattered host.
In the bright morning sunlight of March 24 1980, a car stopped outside the Church of the Divine Providence. A lone gunman stepped out, unhurried. Resting his rifle on the car door, he aimed carefully down the long aisle to where El Salvador's archbishop, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was saying mass. A single shot rang out. Romero staggered and fell. The blood pumped from his heart, soaking the little white disks of scattered host.
Romero's murder was to become one of the most notorious unsolved crimes of the cold war. The motive was clear. He was the most outspoken voice against the death squad slaughter gathering steam in the US backyard. The ranks of El Salvador's leftwing rebels were being swelled by priests who preached that the poor should seek justice in this world, not wait for the next. Romero was the "voice of those without voice", telling soldiers not to kill.
The US vowed to make punishment of the archbishop's killers a priority. It could hardly do otherwise as President Reagan launched the largest US war effort since Vietnam to defeat the rebels. He needed support in Washington, which meant showing that crimes like shooting archbishops and nuns would not be tolerated.
The ordering of the murder was blamed on the bogeyman of the story, a military intelligence officer called Major Roberto D'Aubuisson who had, conveniently for Washington, recently left the army. In the weeks before the murder, he was repeatedly on television using military intelligence files to denounce "guerrillas". Those he accused were often murdered. Romero was near the top of the list.
But US promises to bring justice came to nothing. With no trigger-man, gun or witnesses, officials claimed lack of evidence. D'Aubuisson went on to become one of El Salvador's most successful politicians before throat cancer killed him at the end of the civil war 12 years later - the revenge of God, many concluded.
However, new evidence suggests that Washington not only knew far more about the killing than it admitted - but also did nothing to investigate for fear of jeopardising its war effort. Vital evidence was ignored. Key witnesses, including the most likely gunman, were killed by those supposed to be investigating.
Indeed, Why they are running... ?
From the tear gas or from the poverty and violence supported and promoted by the executive of the 1% in North America...?
