Chomsky knows it well. Trump Wants to Destroy Organised Human Life: Noam Chomsky
Vijay Prashad, Executive Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, talks to renowned scholar and activist Noam Chomsky on the policies of Donald Trump, the impact of neoliberalism on the world and the protests that have broken out across the US.
A Century of U.S. Intervention Created the Immigration Crisis [...] The liberal rhetoric of inclusion and common humanity is insufficient: we must also acknowledge the role that a century of U.S.-backed military coups, corporate plundering, and neoliberal sapping of resources has played in the poverty, instability, and violence that now drives people from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras toward Mexico and the United States. For decades, U.S. policies of military intervention and economic neoliberalism have undermined democracy and stability in the region, creating vacuums of power in which drug cartels and paramilitary alliances have risen. In the past fifteen years alone, CAFTA-DR?— [Insert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic%E2%80%93Central_America_Free_Trade_Agreement#Opposition] a free trade agreement between the U.S. and five Central American countries as well as the Dominican Republic?—?has restructured .. https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Impact-of-CAFTA-Drugs-Gangs-and-Immigration-20160301-0008.html .. the region’s economy and guaranteed economic dependence on the United States through massive trade imbalances and the influx of American agricultural and industrial goods that weaken domestic industries. Yet there are few connections being drawn between the weakening of Central American rural agricultural economies at the hands of CAFTA and the rise in migration from the region in the years since. In general, the U.S. takes no responsibility for the conditions that drive Central American migrants to the border. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=148002966