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(3,471 posts)...yet we criminalize their pain,generations of abuse by dictators, govts supported by corporate imperialism. On her visit to Central American countries..Pres. Biden tasked V.P. Harris to travel to what is known the northern triangle to address the root of migration to U.S.,recall her addressing about U.S. roll responsibility for the migration of people out of these counties.
While Pablo Neruda wrote this poem in 1950, it's relevance to today's migration of pilligrenos out of these countries to U.S. is astounding. In CNN article Re:Harris travels central American countries asses how to combat,work with respective govts to stave off migration to U S. Article reminded me of the thousands of orphaned children that came to U.S., what have become of them? They are the lost children in America's memory of images of children clinging to the top of railroad cars heading El Norte to U.S. [note: provided link to Info on VP Harris/CNN article and excerpt and link to analysis of Neruda's poem.]
CNN/Harris Border/Central America Migration
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/10/15/politics/kamala-harris-border-migration/index.html&ved=2ahUKEwjPxqbs7qD5AhU8IkQIHa3VApEQFnoECAgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2t5OfPC4Takwnvyuyhjlqe
These include the Coca-Cola Company, the Anaconda Mining Company, Ford Motors, and the United Fruit Company. Bucheli argues that the latter was the American company that had established the most political and economic influence in the so-called Banana Republics (9).
That was a term coined by an American writer Henry, to refer to the backward Latin American countries, whose governments had been taken over by dictators, supported by the multinationals from the United States.
The multinationals had influenced the governments of these countries to the extent that the tyrant who ruled in those days. They also suppressed workers strikes using government bodies such as the military and the police in favor of the companies. The meaning of the United Fruit Company poem stands out as relevant during those times in several ways.
Analysis of La United Fruit Co by Pablo Nerudas; ivypanda.com
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ivypanda.com/essays/pablo-nerudas-united-fruit-co/&ved=2ahUKEwju9L6-66D5AhUEI0QIHXmoCp0QFnoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw32gQUCC4IdPA-FSZxviC-p