The Central American migrant crisis is the fruit of US intervention | Under the Shadow

Two hundred years ago, on December 2, 1823, then-president James Monroe delivered his State of the Union address to Congress. In his address, he laid out what would become both one of the most consequential and devastating ideas for Latin America-the Monroe Doctrine.
We look back on the history of the Monroe Doctrine and the devastating impact on the region. The list of US invasions, occupations, coups, and sanctions is endless. Hundreds. From Mexico to Panama. The Caribbean. Colombia to the tip of Chile and Argentina. No country in Latin America has remained free from the shadow hanging over them. The shadow of the United States. The shadow of the Monroe Doctrine.
In the second half of the episode, we meet migrants walking North toward the United States on the edge of Central America. A very real manifestation, right now, of the never-ending impact of US intervention in Latin America.
Under the Shadow is a new investigative narrative podcast series that walks back in time to tell the story of the past by visiting momentous places in the present. In each episode, host Michael Fox takes us to a location where something historic happened-a landmark of revolutionary struggle or foreign intervention. Today, it might look like a random street corner, a church, a mall, a monument, or a museum. But every place he takes us was once the site of history-making events that shook countries, impacted lives, and left deep marks on the world.
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[@beratnabodhi]

"All for a shot at the American dream." An American dream that is dead for most Americans, and never even actually existed for other Americans.

[@100BlaQRaok.el_1]

Right. What dream. Long documented citizens here stopped dreaming because we know the deal.

[@rylanbailey3993]

A lot better than living in a mudhut and having everything stolen by gang members

[@lespeterson3426]

This explains why America needs to quit meddling in the rest of the world, and take care of our own first!!

[@nancysmith-baker1813]

Too late .

[@zigmunstardust4567]

No, it doesn’t, I mean yes, we should but U S interventionism has nothing to do with the crisis, it’s the new laws that everyone gets naturalized .

[@teeldd]

​@@zigmunstardust4567 "... has nothing to do..." lol. Elaborate how its hands are clean.

[@zigmunstardust4567]

@@teeldd Elaborate how its hands are dirty? People are economically migrating here for job opportunities, and a higher standard of living, now that the asylum loophole con is in full effect,… That very very obvious fact is offensive to you? Why do you have to pretend like it’s something else?

[@LolitaAdoreHaze]

@@zigmunstardust4567 "People are economically migrating here for job opportunities, and a higher standard of living..." Joe Biden said at the first Democratic primary debate for the 2020 election. "I would in fact make sure that there is… We immediately surge to the border all those people who are seeking asylum." He was not the president of the United States. He had no authority to speak for the government. He had no authority to speak for the citizens.

[@thomasrogers9146]

visiting latin America with our political scientists professor was one of my best education as an American business man 30 years later. American latin American foreign policy wars,sanctions,regime change, death squad, war on drugs, mass exploration of resources, the chicago boys in chili under milton freedman neo liberal indroctination has left latin America poor explioted and economically destroyed. This is the cause of our current migration crisis. Europes migration crisis is caused by America wars a 20 year destruction of the middle east. And now ukraine migration crisis. U..S foreign policy needs to change.

[@tracyclark7560]

biggest change, leave Russia alone. USA will still be on opposing side, succumbing people to strife will forever be. Bullies, greed, jealousy everywhere

[@zigmunstardust4567]

I’ve heard this argument a million times and I’ve never heard an actual example of it. It’s just a bad excuse for gaming the system in a completely unfair way. What are you talking about? Iran contra? You cannot name a single solid example of this, but it sounds good.

[@cjinpa5713]

Like #100 looking forward to this series. Back in 2015 I did my best to look into the migrant situation and wow was it depressing and tragic what’s been going on. Glad to learn some more about it. The U.S. government impoverishes its own citizens and the citizens of the world.

[@lookitwasnotme225]

Wait until you find out black Americans weren't slaves and they truly owned American.

[@CamiloM-iy7qd]

Argentina is the new testing ground for anarco capitalism.

[@maggielandow2686]

Illegal caravans are not the answer to this horrible problem. We need America cleaned out of bad government and then new gover must work to aid people in other corrupted countries to have freedom to stay home and live there. Right now Americans are fighting for our own freedom from corruption..

[@DocZom]

The problem is not so much the political system in the US as the economic system. Corruption and oligarchy go hand in hand with unfettered capitalism.

[@Acode7940]

Really good! We need these reports. Thank you.

[@Kariakas]

The irony of a doctrine intended to prevent colonialism to have turned into a neo-colonialism manifestation.

[@katiekane5247]

And the Patriot Act was to protect us?

[@Kariakas]

@@katiekane5247 Absolutely not, the Patriot Act was created to expand government power in a time that the US is a global empire. The same forces that warped the Monroe doctrine into an imperialistic doctrine crafted the Patriot act.

[@simonjusticier333]

The guano act of 1856, by which the US illegally seized nearly 190 islands worldwide, of which 10 are still under us jurisdiction via this illegal guano act, must be repealed. Haiti, for example, still claims navasa island which the us, based upon this illegal guano, has continuously refused to return that island back to Haiti.

[@gray_foxx583]

Can you say Hawaii or Puerto Rico. I would bet that about 60 percent of americans are not aware of the information that you just shared.

[@sd247]

​​@@gray_foxx583definitely, how the U.S. hijacked Hawaii from the Queen , when her husband died.😮

[@katiekane5247]

Just like the issues in the Middle East, history is an important part in understanding where we are today. The USA and the UK have their fingers in areas they should have left alone. Great report! Thumbs up 👍

[@zigmunstardust4567]

History is important, which is why it’s frustrating. You all know nothing about the details of any of this or the past 80 years of the pax americana and what the US function is in the world and why.

[@fredsimmons2793]

@@zigmunstardust4567 I know for sure Manisfest Destiny is not ordained of God.

[@kinkeliba]

​@@fredsimmons2793 Not either the american dream.

[@user-sn9bc3gz9m]

If you wanna look into something look into the Pope’s influence on our President Biden. I think you might find the answer to this immigration problem the Pope told the he is the most influential person up to this point.How is the Catholic Church benefit from thiscrisis?

[@zigmunstardust4567]

@@fredsimmons2793 I’m glad you were saying, the quiet part out loud, that this is a willful invasion, own it. Call it what it is then.

[@struckgold6387]

Great work❤❤❤Thank you so much❤❤❤

[@alexxx7066]

El Salvador 🇸🇻 is the ONLY country in LATAM reducing illegal immigration 🎉 due to violence but will still have illegal immigration due to family reunification. Thanks to Nayib Bukele and reducing MASSIVE corruption.

[@jessypleiez3553]

not to mentioned El Salvador fought Russian and Cuban intervention on behalf of US government after losing the Vietnam War, if El Salvador would have fallen to the Russian-Cuban intervention the Russian-Cuban would be knocking at the US border from Tijuana to Matamoros

[@cheri238]

What a great series!!! The Monroe Doctrine, pgs. 297 & 408, Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States. Dr Gerald Horne has written over 40 books on Afro-American history. Keep up the great work. Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, and Team Democracy Now, great journalism and The Real News Network, I want to congratulate you and all other independent journalists who hold truth to powers of corruption and greed.

[@fredsimmons2793]

😂Milton Friedman trickle down economics used the southern hemisphere as its nursery,and seeding ground.What we are seeing is the chickens coming home to roost after over 75 years of darwinian capitalism.Thank you so much to all involved in putting together this series.Strength and health to each of you.

[@zigmunstardust4567]

I would love t if you give me even one example of this, I hear these innane, narratives over and over again, but no one can explain it. Why? Because it’s nonsense

[@gray_foxx583]

Read a book or seek knowledge outside of your bubble.

[@Toneloke-3000]

​@zigmunstardust4567 example is countless coups and encouragement and support from our country to topple whoever is in power that we don't like or won't do business with us for the exploitation of their natural resources. Domination of our military bases and our corporate crony capitalism coming in and taking what they want and then leaving environmental and economic destruction as they exit. We made these countries shitholes keeping them under our boot. What the hell are they teaching people we learned this in the 80s in history class? Check out what the guy says at the 17:30 mark

[@zigmunstardust4567]

@@gray_foxx583 Ok, I asked for an exa[le and you said seek knowledge, like your some kind of shaken. This is EXACTLY the problem. You all actually believe you’re righteous.

[@leftykeys6944]

Thank you SO MUCH for this program! You have validated the argument I've made for years, against those who keep shrieking about our borders not being "secure" enough.

[@OnStolenLand]

I recall reading that sometime In the mid 1800s, up to 300 Irish immigrants arrived in either New York or Boston everday for 6yrs.... Many of these people who crossed the Atlantic ocean to get here were called Squatters which wasnt the nicest term. They even formed something called The Squatters Association. 🙂

[@coldhardtruth333]

Oh wow ..

[@5kids1goldfish]

Thank you!!! Can you give insight to the factors that have contributed to femicide in Honduras (and other places where it exists)? Destablization has been very deadly for women...

[@DocZom]

I urge everyone to read "Gangsters of Capitalism" by Jonathan M. Katz, a biography of USMC Major Gen'l Smedley Butler, who came to declare that war is a racket. Butler was from the Spanish American War until the 1930s instrumental in the US policy of military intervention in other states for the benefit of corporate profits. Eye opening.

[@miguelladinodevera614]

Gen. Butler was portrayed by Robert De Niro in a recent movie that includes Margot Robbie, Rami Malek, Taylor Swift, and Christian Bale. To this day, I believe that Smedley Butler is a hero. A true human being whose innate goodness is akin to being saintly.

[@matthewmohri9990]

Oliver North was also wrapped up in The Franklin Credit Cover Up that was tied also to The Iran Contra Scandal.

[@rohanxdavis]

Great content, thank you for your work 🙏🏾

[@carlacummins9821]

Almost turned this off when you admitted you listened to Wham! Ha! Only kidding; I grew up in the same era!

[@michiganmymichigan]

I love Wham

[@vthilton]

Sharing will save the world.

[@allahdinosamo7654]

Agreed 100 % .

[@sharonhearne5014]

It is HERE no matter where you want to place the blame.

[@flyingspacerock8968]

This needs video

[@dannydenison6253]

I'm so hyped about this!

[@RoiDsavoir]

The meddling in Haiti predates the Monroe Doctrine but is definitely same principle

[@wnklee6878]

That was ALWAYS clear. But ignorance is strength.

[@1236612]

No. Not true. I am appraoching 70. I can remember this same line being said in the late 1960s.

[@joeharris3878]

I'm 68 years old. I have been approaching age 69 ever since I was born.

[@katiekane5247]

True then and now

[@samjones6258]

Of course it is!

[@anthonymurdock3107]

And we're about to pay

[@CowboyConan]

And climate change

[@lattehour]

but but but but USA did not intervened in my country yet i still want to migrante to usa and take your/compete for your jobs and i am preparing arduously for it

[@100BlaQRaok.el_1]

Many of the i-M's, not all, but many will add to the criminality here. It was desparate there, they feel promised here. When SHTF what will happen?

[@neilsunn]

Hangover from School of the America s.

[@wynetsang]

US interventions everywhere in the world is because US is very lonely on Turtle Island, far away from the main stage of humanity, Eurasia.

[@oliveraparicio8464]

That's where it's greatest strength lies. Eurasia has spent the last 5000 years butchering itself. American Geography keeps it away from all the Geopolitical Drama.

[@100BlaQRaok.el_1]

The children, though❤😔

[@bernicehagins643]

Believe me this is a PLANDEMIC

[@historydiscover]

Americans demand that we Palestinians split our country in half and give our homes to immigrants but will they split their country in half and give it to immigrants since half of USA used to be Mexico? Why do they demand we do what they won't?

[@TheBlackParty]

Mexico sold there lands to the US, but it was taken from others and no one gave a damn until it happened to them.

[@1erinjames]

You do realize that what the majority of American citizens want is NOT what is depicted in media, don't you? Sounds like you believe whatever they want you to believe. That being said, you should realize that ALL nations considered prosperous, are being reduce to 3rd world nations under wef un rule. None of our nation's are sovereign anymore. Leaders were bought off or put in place an paid to sell us all out to global kingdom ruled by one.

[@photosynthesis69]

Lolwat? Who is demanding this? Also the comparison you made doesn’t even make sense. “Split the country in half and give it to immigrants?” It would be one thing if you said certain states be returned to Mexico, but you are suggesting the creation of a new country between the US and Mexico.

[@1erinjames]

Wonder who removed my comment? Truth being silenced is tyranny.

[@1erinjames]

So yt banning ALL of my comments. I see. I see.

[@carminefragione4710]

American Democracy is based on the merit of those born on the land, and then foreigners or immigrants come second, yet we have shown that anyone born on the land comes under the equal rights of any other group of people born on the land. Rather than say who was given the land or born on the land thousands of years ago, the American Nation is a present day realism of people alive today, where the promise of liberty and prosperity is the right of the people who have been born on the land, and then people from other nations can apply and if acceptable, enter the country, but those born on the land, have the natural right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, no matter where their ancestors had been born. Both the Jewish Settlers and the Palestinians have a case of recent migrations to Israel , but even God one day had to close the door on Noah's Ark, because every vessel has a maximum capacity or it all sinks. Jews and Palestinians hate each other based on ancient traditions and claims made to a people long ago, and all of this is really irrelevant. If the Jews and the Arabs are born on the land, they should be one nation, as of the present day living, and not an occult ideology based on those who lived thousands of years ago, thinking the past is more important than any future for all people. Jewish Settlers and Palestinian Resistance are intoxicated on the same drugs of "Tradition". So they take equal pleasure in hating each other and aspiring to wipe each other out. That is antithetical to America.

[@gray_foxx583]

Your suggestion is at least 100 years too late. What have all of the true americans been doing? Your reaction to the obvious is hilarious. Your turn has come and the chickens must come home to roost.

[@lmlm_]

It’s always someone else’s fault, right? 😂

[@josephtany9515]

Migrant started before your time 🎉

[@lichotropical3350]

look mama the chickens are coming home to roost.

[@carminefragione4710]

The Day came God Himself closed the door on the Ark built by Noah to escape the perils of the Flood. While most of the people who died in the flood were children and women, yet any vessel has a maximum capacity, and it cannot save the world. America must first secure liberty and prosperity for it's own people, the plight of other nations is entirely up to them, their lands are rich and magnificent, they lack no opportunity, except to work on their own nations using America as an example of how to succeed. Everyone wants to come to America, but just like the time it began to rain, there is a limit , and the door must be closed.

[@VonKirda]

What utter nonsense. I can imagine good reasons to oppose too much immigration, but this is such rubbish. Just look at the population density differences between the USA states.

[@carminefragione4710]

@@VonKirda We are not States , we are the United States, that makes a difference for all.

[@maggielandow2686]

America has been so badly compromised by our own government that we the people have lost our ability to to welcome anyone to our lost country until we Americans fix our government.

[@katiekane5247]

You're seriously bringing the Bible into your ridiculous assumptions?

[@oliveraparicio8464]

​@katiekane5247 Bringing up biblical stories or not the door needs to be shut. Either Trump does it or a more radical presidential candidate in the near future is going to do it.

[@sexydmvnygga9187]

Be better with video.