• lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    “no food” was the main reason people from Central America sought to emigrate to the U.S.

    No food coupled with political instability and extremely violent criminal groups preventing ability to produce food. Above all, the unwanted US fruit company empires more than a century ago left a legacy of corruption and class conflict in that region.

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      5 hours ago

      Yes, and the two are interrelated. Scarcity breeds insecurity, insecurity breeds conflict, and conflict destroys physical and societal infrastructure of production that leads to further scarcity. It becomes a vicious cycle. And indeed I believe you are entirely correct that a long legacy of U.S. neocolonial interventionism has contributed to the instability.