The US has manufactured a climate of hell in Central America, and with Kamala Harris’s latest statements on migration, it closed the door in the face of those fleeing the fire. Opinion | pajaritaroja
with the regions’ governments so that companies such as Microsoft, Mastercard and Nespresso can exploit Central American labour under the guise of “promoting economic opportunity.”
There are thousands of US-owned transnationals in Mexico and Central America that take advantage of and foster lower labour costs, degrading working conditions, few taxes and cheap leases and utilities to then send the products and profits to the US. Honduran workers are paid 8 cents, for example, to make football shirts thatThe US prioritises maximising the profits of its business empire, not human rights.
It has supplied military dictatorships with arms and training. It supported the 2009 coup in Honduras against a left-leaning president, and it has perpetuated economic sabotage, environmental desecration and cultural carnage through trade agreements like NAFTA, UMSCA, and CAFTA which give US companies the best possible conditions.
The US’ foreign policy is to systematically and violently safeguard its accumulated wealth and power. It has manufactured a climate of hell in the region, then on Monday and Tuesday, it closed the door in the face of those fleeing the fire.
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