How to understand Trump’s current rants about “caravans” of immigrants coming to the U.S.

The Quixote Center (www.quixote.org) has done great solidarity work with Central America for decades.  They put into context the ranting of Trump in early April 2018.

Trump is feeling increased pressure about his many scandals, etc., so he is trying to divert scrutiny of his own bad behavior and that of his appointees by demonizing “The Other” and trying to get Americans to fear “The Other” and support Trump’s claim that militarizing the US’s southern border and violating the human rights of undocumented immigrants here will protect us.

This article deserves to be read by many people: https://quixote.org/trump-unhinged/

A great many of the immigrants in the “caravans” that Trump is trying to frighten us about are coming from Honduras.  The U.S. supported the right-wing coup that overthrew Honduras’s democracy and installed a very brutal government that has been killing journalists, labor organizers, human rights defenders, environmentalists, and other people trying to make Honduras a better place.  The U.S. has continued funding the brutal military and police forces that allow those murders and other abuses to occur — and in some cases are actually committing the crimes.

For more about this, see the post titled “TV:  Honduras,” the interview I conducted in 2009 shortly after the coup.  This is the link:  http://parallaxperspectives.org/tv-honduras

Here is more information about the coup and U.S. abuses:

The U.S. government really is complicit in the murders of environmentalists and other good people, plus more crimes against human rights and international law.

I interviewed two knowledgeable persons for my TV program shortly after the 2010 coup. They provide information. You can watch the program and/or read a summary of what we said at this link:  www.parallaxperspectives.org/tv-honduras

 

The article at the following link provides more information about the U.S. support for the 2010 coup against Honduras’s democracy and the complicity of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – and the violence that has been continuing there since 2010:
http://inthesetimes.com/article/19395/how-hillary-clinton-and-american-power-paved-the-way-for-shocking-violence-

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org