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| How the caravan crisis boomeranged on the Latin American left |
| 2018-12-02 |
| [NYPOST] Latin America’s anti-Yank forces had hoped to feast on the migration caravans’ damage to America, but it looks like Mexico is ending up paying the price. And Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who will be inaugurated as Mexico’s president Saturday, is the biggest loser of all. There’s no doubt the vast majority of the 10,000-strong caravan participants are fleeing real "terror," of some kind, back home: Extreme poverty, crime and poor governance make life in their Central American home countries utterly unbearable. Yet the caravans were organized by cynical forces more interested in their own agendas than alleviating |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Good time for Trump to start negotiating bi-lateral trade agreements with the more capitalist nations down south. Start with Chile (assuming we don't already have a deal with them). Put Chile up as an example of a Latin American nation that crawled its way into the first world using Capitalism and Venezuela as an example of one that plopped into failure due to Socialism and push for the region to emulate success for a change. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-12-02 11:20 |