Three Offensive Walls

[unhappycamper]

http://watchingamerica.com/News/244422/three-offensive-walls/

If armies of displaced, hungry, poorly educated, or nearly illiterate people are heading to the U.S. in search of an opportunity, it is also because they are persuaded that it is the land of opportunities.

Three Offensive Walls
La Prensa, Bolivia
By Editorial
Translated By Mayra Reiter
15 August 2014
Edited by Helaine Schweitzer

On Aug. 15, 1961, the authorities of the now-defunct German Democratic Republic began the construction of the Berlin Wall, abominable no matter how you look at it. In that manner, they tried to prevent the free movement of people between the communist East and the capitalist West.

~snip~

However, bad examples spread fast. The United States has literally erected another Iron Curtain on its southern border, which it shares with Mexico, to prevent the “coyotes” (smugglers) from successfully crossing over with undocumented Central Americans, who arrive clandestinely in the U.S. looking for what their governments or states are incapable of providing: decent work and security for them and their families.

Throngs of hungry people take the risk of crossing the border, despite the risks of facing death, or being the target of discrimination if they achieve their first objective. They are the economic exiles of a system that values the profits of large corporations and has forgotten that human beings produce those riches.

The U.S. government is especially responsible for this situation: not exactly the current administration, but those administrations that supported armed invasions against countries that are trying to build their futures outside of Washington’s tutelage.