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Cristian Padilla RomeroCentral America, Israel, Palestine, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, HondurasComment

Unveiling Parallel Atrocities: Historical Connections between the Genocide in Gaza and U.S./Israeli-Supported Genocides in Central America

“The ongoing U.S.-supported Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, where over thirty-four thousand people have been murdered, half of them being children, is a new iteration of a longer history of U.S.-Israeli settler violence exported across the globe. Like Palestine, Central America was a critical site of U.S.-Israeli counter-revolutionary violence that targeted Black, Indigenous, and impoverished working people on an unimaginable, sadistic scale.”

Cristian Padilla RomeroCentral America, Israel, Palestine, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, HondurasComment
Unveiling Parallel Atrocities: Historical Connections between the Genocide in Gaza and U.S./Israeli-Supported Genocides in Central America
Cristian Padilla RomeroHonduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, children, separation, violence

“Destroying the Seeds”: The cruel origins of violence toward children in the United States and Central America

“My family and I did not simply “choose” to migrate, we did so out of necessity. The uneven nature of the global capitalist economy increases forced migration, disrupting familial and social relationships in countless ways, not only at the US-Mexico border, but also when family members are pushed to leave their communities and are unable to take their children with them. I am determined to continue working on addressing the root causes that created the conditions we were forced to flee, such as US interventionism in Central America and in many other regions around the world.”

Cristian Padilla RomeroHonduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, children, separation, violence
“Destroying the Seeds”: The cruel origins of violence toward children in the United States and Central America
Honduras, Latin America, The Americas, United States, PanamáAlejandra MejíaHonduras, Panamá, family, mother, brother, Panama Canal, migration, American Dream, racialized, DACAmented, markers of success, immigrant guilt, U.S. cultural imperialism

1.5 Gen Testimonios: How my Migrant Identity Informs my Politics | Alejandra Mejía

“Our story of migration is like that of many working-class Latin American immigrants: motivated by the search for better opportunities and, ultimately, for survival in countries where U.S. intervention and global asymmetrical power dynamics dating back to colonization have left limited options for people. Direct U.S. involvement in Panamá, where I lived from ages 3-11, can be traced back to the nineteenth century when what is now Panamá was a province of Colombia.“

Honduras, Latin America, The Americas, United States, PanamáAlejandra MejíaHonduras, Panamá, family, mother, brother, Panama Canal, migration, American Dream, racialized, DACAmented, markers of success, immigrant guilt, U.S. cultural imperialism
1.5 Gen Testimonios: How my Migrant Identity Informs my Politics | Alejandra Mejía
Honduras, Latin America, The Americas, United StatesJonathon Burne-EspinozaHonduras, united states, US cultural imperialism, Afro-HondureñaComment

In the Presence of Absence | Jonathon Burne-Espinoza

“Another thread, and the one that I feel most acutely: U.S. cultural imperialism has robbed us both of our cultural identities. The visceral awareness of lacking, the presence of absence (a phrase borrowed from the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish) which transcends time and space, spans across peoples who have had their lands, communities, bodies, and spirits stolen, commodified, and repackaged back to them disfigured in the rhetoric of diversity, humanitarianism, and progress.”

Honduras, Latin America, The Americas, United StatesJonathon Burne-EspinozaHonduras, united states, US cultural imperialism, Afro-HondureñaComment
In the Presence of Absence | Jonathon Burne-Espinoza