The thing that shows you how contemptuous Obama is of anybody who is not black and not Muslim is that these Latin American states are appealing for this to stop. The wife of the president of Honduras has offered to repatriate all Hondurans at her own expense.
Latin America has development problems because their inherited structure was very bureaucratic. The “officialdom” approach enabled Spain to standardize and to maintain good government, within the levels of communication of the times, although of course, as in the US, it led them to ignore local complaints or be very manipulated by local interests. For example, the reason Mexico never developed a wine industry, even though the demand was huge and they had the perfect climate, was because Spanish wine makers and their Mexican dealers wanted to keep the market.
Also, from a pragmatic point of view, the Spanish didn’t wipe out the Indian population as English Americans did, but converted them to Christianity and made them part of the citizenry, even though it was obviously going to take a long time to integrate them into a modern society. And they have been trying ever since.
Lat Am countries could have achieved this, but what destroyed that project was the rise of the left in the 1960s - supported by US intellectuals and even traveling hippies who went down to “support the revolution.” Then the left-wing emphasis of the Church after Vatican II took hold in a lot of places, such as Chiapas, and announced that European influences, such as learning to read and write in a modern European language (Spanish or English), were evil and the indigenous ignorance was all.
But the one thing that has made it worse is the US, which always supports any leftist dictator and economy-killing movement that comes down the pike. Remember how Obama tried to crush Honduras because they didn’t let the leftist take over their country?
This is true particularly for Mexico, where the saying is, “Poor Mexico, so far from God - and so close to the United States.” “Far from God” refers to the Spanish expression “dejado de la mano de Dios,” which means “forgotten to the world.” In other words, abandoned and forgotten by Europe and its former supporters, but next door to a country that wants to do nothing but exploit it.
Unfortunately, their response takes the form of routine anti-Americanism, mostly motivated by the radical left...which has the most to gain from rejecting good economic and social connections with the US, because this enables the union graft (the teachers’ unions control half of Mexico) and the crony capitalism to continue unchallenged.
Of all the things Obama has done, this encouragement of child migration is about the most cruel and cynical. He should definitely stand trial for this, and I (and probably half of Latin America) would probably be there every day.
It would probably help the USA if it and Honduras swapped presidents!
Such wickedness by the Democrats.
Surely if Barack ought to be impeached, it would be for the chillun’s sake. Throw an irony back at the Democrats and lefties.
I checked on Mexican wine. Per Wikipedia’s account, winemaking prohibitions ended with Mexican independence from Spain, but the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900s somehow hurt wine production in a way that was not explained. Winemaking is legal in Mexico but I’ve never seen a Mexican wine here. Curiosity kills the cat, but following up on related topics informed me on mezcal worms. Yes they put worms in some brands of mezcal when they are bottled. Maybe that is apropos another worm, I don’t know.
Thank you for your very thoughtful, historical and knowledgeable reply.
America has been adrift for a very long time.
America has very poor foresight, and very little hindsight.
Churchill put it this way: “Amedicons always do the right thang, - - - aftuh they have tried ev-ry othuh possibility fuhst.”
We tend to wait for a “Pearl Harbor Moment” to recognize that we might have a problem.
Consequently, long term Communists such as Obama have no problem slowly turning up the heat on the pot of frogs swimming about in the ever-warming water - - - .