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MIGRANT CARAVANA IN LATIN AMERICA
On the 9th of June the Summit of the Americas opened in Los Angeles, which will also discuss the migration crisis, a new and massive migrant caravan set out from Tapachula. To make it up from seven to twelve thousand migrants, men, women, children, the elderly, people with disabilities coming mostly from Central and South America, tired of waiting in vain for a response from the Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM) and the Comisión Mexicana de Ayuda to Refugiados (COMAR) regarding their requests for asylum or permission to enter the country.
A very large caravan, the largest since the phenomenon of caravans exploded in 2018, determined to obtain permits and win the right to migrate and, in the intentions of the organizers, peaceful so that at the head of the group there are the most fragile such as people with disabilities, women, the elderly and children while men queue to protect those left behind from attempts by the authorities to raid. According to the organizations accompanying the caravan, there are at least 126 pregnant women, three thousand children and minors, 67 people with disabilities and three thousand women.
The current one is the eighth caravan leaving Tapachula in the current year. A caravan that not only seeks to obtain documents for migrants in transit on Mexican soil, but which also seeks to put the issue of migratory flows back at the center of general attention and to claim and defend the right to be able to migrate. These are the words of Luis Garcia Villagrán collected by the Mexican newspaper La Jornada : «we want to tell Joe Biden, Andrés Manuel López Obrador and all the presidents that the border is not the“ patio transero” nobody’s; we are free men, women, children, of a free America. This is why today we walk in the name of God, conquering our freedom so that it can be seen that we are free and dignified people, that we have the right to migrate. Migrating is not a crime ».
Words that highlight how “desde arriba” (from up) migrants are considered commodities, pawns of exchange in the name of economic and political interests. Words that clarify how the only way to obtain (or defend) rights is to conquer them in the streets, by fighting, walking and challenging the elements and the armed forces, putting one’s own bodies at stake. Because, from above, no one will give anything away, much less the phantom “friendly governments.”
NEO LIBERAL POLITICS OF LATIN AMERICA COUNTRIES AND THE LIE OF THE ‘AMERICAN DREAM’
The lats years have witnessed the increasing of the phenomenon called the immigration caravans in Latin America, since the last period of elected politicians in most of the countries were from the center-left or the center-right, meaning that their politics were all related and build under the interests of the imperialist USA and it’s puppet organizations such as the IMF and the OAS (Organization of American States). In most of the countries where many of the refugees are coming from, such as Honduras, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Haiti and Guatemala, the politics of those countries are mostly – if not totally – influenced by the interests of the USA and it’s companies, causing the people to live in precarious conditions and below the poverty line. In Latin America, the richest 10% of people capture 54% of the national income, making it one of the most unequal regions in the world. Since the 2000’s some center-left parties tried to implement more equity policies but with methods of conciliation with the elite and the bourgeoisie, leading to it’s fail.
The american dream is still sell as an reality to the oppressed people in Latin America, even some people know that is all about a fake propaganda but still, the part of their life’s that are searching for better conditions to live let themselves be influenced by Hollywoodian propaganda that is done 24h a day in the televisions, programs and internet to alienate the people. The hope that children will grow up to have higher standards of living than their parents is widespread around the world. In the United States, this concept is considered by many to be a core component of the American Dream—the idea of a “better life for your children” is a major part of what has drawn immigrants to this country for generations.
Recent research, however, shows that in the United States, the rate of upward absolute income mobility—the fraction of children who grow up to earn more than their parents, after adjusting for inflation
THE USE OF IMMIGRATION AS A POLITICAL TOOL IN THE WORLD
The big reality of migration is that people don’t really want to leave their countries, their culture, their land, their people, however the situations in the daily life become so difficult to bear that they are forced to do so. Even with the worsening of the climate situation due to the destructive capitalist mentality and its consumerist reality, with the destruction of nature to explore and getter capital the climate change is being more felt in the “south world”, the “third-world”, countries that already face difficulties problems due to economic realities and a historic exploitation that left consequences and scars until today.
Those people that are fleeing their land at thousands, if not millions, are met with the military and oppressive apparatus of the “first-world”, the “north-world”, European countries letting people die in the seas of the Mediterranean sea so they don’t get to the borders of the south Europe or the concentration camps in the Mexico-US border where agents of ICE and the United States Border Patrol behave as Gestapo agents by leaving people without food or any human care as they are caged – even children are separated from their families. This happens due to the eugenicist mentality of this countries, their white policies that had origin in the colonisation and the bases of the creation of the nation-state mentality. This is clearly observed as the new migrant crisis happened in Ukraine due to the hegemonic war with Russia, after Russia invaded the country in February of this year. White families from Ukraine being well received in European countries as the people of color that lived in the country were left behind, even stopped from boarding the trains that were leaving the country. Even during the events the CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata stated that Ukraine “isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan, that has seen conflict raging for decades. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European – I have to choose those words carefully, too – city, one where you wouldn’t expect that, or hope that it’s going to happen”.
Turkey used the imigrant crisis of 2015 as a way gain advantage by using the refugees as a political weapon with the UE, asking for money to the “refugee crisis” – in which the block send around 6 billion dollars, to then use most of this money in the military preparations and improvements to be used against the freedom movement. The ‘EU-Turkey deal’ is the term often used to describe the ‘statement of cooperation’ between EU states and the Turkish Government, which was signed in March 2016.
- Turkey would take any measures necessary to stop people travelling irregularly from Turkey to the Greek islands.
- Anyone who arrived on the islands irregularly from Turkey could be returned there.
- For every Syrian returned from the islands, EU Member States would accept one Syrian refugee who had waited inside Turkey.
In exchange, Turkey would receive €6 billion to improve the humanitarian situation faced by refugees in the country, and Turkish nationals would be granted visa-free travel to Europe. The message was clear: those attempting to reach Greece irregularly would be swiftly returned, while those who waited patiently in Turkey would have the chance to enter in their place.
This is also used by the turkish fascist state as a way to recruit Arabic salafis to join their mercenaries organization in Syria – Rojava, to fight against the Kurdish revolutionaries of YPG/YPJ. More than 3.6 million Syrian refugees have taken shelter in Turkey since 2011, earlier this month Erdogan proposed to encourage Syrian refugees to return voluntarily to allegedly “safe” Turkish-controlled zones in Syria. This is a strategic way to change the demography of the region and increase it’s influence in the region. Since most of those people are connected to the turkish state and aliened with it’s occupation goals.
Meanwhile, in Turkey, there are doubts over how “voluntary” the proposed returns actually are. For instance, Ahmed, a 25-year-old Syrian who is not using his real name out of fear for recrimination, told DW that he was forcibly taken to Syria’s city of Afrin on May 10 after police in Istanbul forced him to sign papers of a voluntary return. Ahmed’s offense: He travelled from Marash to Istanbul without a valid travel permission for refugees.
For example, 24-year-old Muhammad, who also doesn’t want to use his real name, has been in Turkey for two years. He is now worried that he could get deported. “My house near Damascus is under control of the Assad regime, I’m afraid that if I have to go back, I could get arrested immediately.”
Mona, who is also using a different name, is a 35-year-old mother who came to Turkey in 2017. She hopes to obtain Turkish citizenship and to stay in Iskenderun for good. “My two children learn Turkish at school, and my husband works in construction. The past five years were good and stable, but now, after hearing about the relocation plans, we are very worried again.”
