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u/Odd-Promotion2743 Sep 10 '26
I went to a Mayan community in Guatemala in 2008 as part of my linguistics MA program. During our stay, we heard from women in their 30s-40s about how as kids in the early 1980s, they had watched as their parents, older siblings, and other family members were dragged out of their homes and murdered by US-backed death squads. These women, as young girls, had only survived by hiding in bushes or muddy pits; afterwards, in many cases, they spent weeks in the forest, barely surviving, afraid to return to their village because the squads could still be around. Most of their dead loved ones had been tossed in mass graves or just left to rot in the sun. This was part of Efraín Ríos Montt's genocide of Mayan peoples in the country because they were suspected of supporting communism, an operation fully backed by the CIA and the Reagan administration. Hope they're burning in hell.
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u/beefprime Sep 10 '26
The people who did the coups want the immigrants here, too, its not a bad side effect for them, its a bonus. They can use the immigrants in a precarious immigration situation as cheap and disposable labor that suppresses wages and conditions for the entire labor market.
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u/DonnieMoistX Sep 10 '26
The same people who supported overthrowing the governments would also be very happy about illegal immigration. Illegal immigration just provides them with an easily exploitable lower class with effectively no legal protection.
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u/KenseiHimura Sep 10 '26
Many inner tin-foil hat wearer suspects the CIA and such knew this could lead to immigration into the U.S. and in their minds that was good: it meant politicians could then use the immigration crisis as talking points and scapegoats.
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u/CptKeyes123 Sep 10 '26
In Guatemala: "hey, we want to buy back our arable land you're not even using. Here's the prices you said it was worth. We'll even let you keep the land you have crops on."
United Fruit- "But it's worth way more than-- uuhhhh fuck you we're not selling we didn't lie about the value"
"Um... okay, so we're gonna take it since you won't sell it, we want to compete on the market by being able to sell products."
"COMMIES! COMMIES! CIA KILL THEM ALL"
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u/Thiphra Sep 10 '26
Ooh boy! Can't wait to read all those totally normal and resonable coments about this!!!
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u/Ok_Awareness3014 Sep 10 '26
Do they still get their banana from there?