By An Old Friend
Monday, August 12, 2019
The Guatemalan Diaspora
The Guatemalan Diaspora
Here's a series of three articles in The New Yorker from April, all reported from rural Guatemala.
I https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-climate-change-is-fuelling-the-us-border-crisis Emphasis on climate change in the sense of the seasons becoming less predictable (but also with invocation of "denial," which makes me grind my teeth). Overall, I have the sense that human desperation of the sort described here will be spreading worldwide.
II https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-epidemic-of-debt-plaguing-central-american-migrants Contains sob-story elements but not told in sob-story style.
III https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-dream-homes-of-guatemalan-migrants Includes interesting fact about the problem engendered by cheap corn from Mexico ...
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Just because our country--founded by whites--created a wealthy,powerful nation,the rest of the world became jealous and decided they wanted to fill it up with immigrants-to create a downward parity with the unsuccessful countries outside of the US.China and Russia would love to see us fill up with blacks,Mex and Muslim wouldn't they?Easy to defeat in a war.
--GRA
More than likely they just abuse the land with antiquated farming techniques. Used to be a lot of slash and burn. I am not sure if they do that anymore.
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