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Posts by Benjamin T. Smith

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Odd, met very few Cruz Azul fans in Oaxaca. None in team I played for...very badly.

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Immensely enjoyable.

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Cultural Politics in Revolution | UAPress

RIP MKV. Brilliant historian of modern Mexico. uapress.arizona.edu/book/cultura...

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Well deserved. Congrats! Just finished it. Genuine eye opener.

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Yep, v true. How can you claim state can't find organised crime if it can capture 350k migrants in 2 months.

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Here's a fucking cat.

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Borderland with Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas Podcast · IRONCLAD · New Episodes Every Monday. An unfiltered look at real stories from America's Southern Border. Each week, special operations combat veteran, actor, writer, and veteran BORSTAR A...

Rant over. Here's a podcast I did on this open.spotify.com/show/6w9YAIl...

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Wake up. This is the liberal order, just like the old one. For communists read migrants. West is just exporting its problems to other countries, while maintaining a thin veneer of civilisation.

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Rich countries farm out the state of exception to poorer neighbours. While media wang on about tariffs (never going to happen) and end of liberal order.

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Yet what is happening in Mexico (and Hungary, and Poland, and Turkey) appears to be the key dynamic in contemporary international relations.

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Morenistas ignore it (as it is a stain on AMLO and Sheinbaum's governments...payment for a degree of national autonomy). Nor does the PRIAN (same reason as the Republicans).

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Yet, US liberals don't talk about it (as Democrats as complicit in this as Republicans). Republicans don't talk about this (as they don't give a shit).

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Six migrants killed after Mexico soldiers open fire Officials say the incident happened after a military patrol saw a vehicle carrying 33 migrants travelling at speed.

Military effectively runs detention centres. And often shoot to kill www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Torture, rape, extrajudicial killing is common.

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Mexico detains more than 5,200 migrants in single day Mexican authorities detained more than 5,200 migrants across the country on Tuesday, officials said on Wednesday, in a major sweep as the nation is under pressure from the incoming U.S. government to crack down on arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Right, got your attention. Can someone explain to me why no one is talking about/investigating the 500,000 migrants detained in Mexico on U.S. orders? In just October and November, 350,000 were detained. www.reuters.com/world/americ....

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Here's something thoughtless and snobbish about Trump supporters.

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Here is a picture of some books.

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Here's a cute cat.

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‘Mother of all battles’: terror for Mexicans as war rages inside Sinaloa cartel Violence shows few signs of ending after three months of war between rival factions that have left more than a thousand dead or disappeared

Three months of war in the Sinaloa Cartel have left 1000+ dead or disappeared, and a city in a kind of humanitarian crisis.

Culiacán is trying to return to normality – but is frequently reminded it lives at the whim of organised crime.

📸 by Jesús Verdugo

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The Secret Deals Between Governments and Cartels: Kingpins, Migrants and Cocaine | Borderland #43
The Secret Deals Between Governments and Cartels: Kingpins, Migrants and Cocaine | Borderland #43 YouTube video by IRONCLAD

Loved appearing on Vincent Vargas' Borderland Show. Genuinely good fun. great host and great show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNN...

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There are currently 500,000 migrants in Mexican detention centres. It is the story no one will touch.

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Don't worry, they won't affect the price of your car. But they will be used to stick 100s of 1000s of Central and South Americans in squalid, militarised detention centres in Mexico.

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What no one seems to mention is that they are not policy proposals but THREATS. They are aimed entirely at forcing Mexico to act as the US's Border Patrol.

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They are covered by the Anglophone newspapers like they are realistic policy proposals. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... They are mostly just ignored in Mexico.

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But it has made me even more annoyed about coverage of Trump's threats against Mexico.

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Just finished Jason de León's extraordinary Soldiers and Kings www.amazon.co.uk/Soldiers-Kin.... It is beautifully written, moving, defiant and like Levi Vonk's Border Hacker strangely hopeful.

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So it is a rich area. There are loads of hippy memoirs. But no histiry I know of

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I, for one, do hope this doesn't start a bout of copycat targeted assassinations of the superwealthy.

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Great piece

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I am amazed that evangelicalism has flatlined in Mexico. Surely not correct?

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