How the United States stole Mexico - The patterns that repeat of now U.S.-led Western imperialism
As the U.S. continues with its full-out aggression across the Americas in favor of U.S. and Western political and corporate-investor interests, Rights Action recommends taking a step back in history and listening to this recent podcast.
How the United States stole Mexico
Under The Shadow podcast, S2-E9
A look back at devastating history of foreign intervention in Mexico amid the Trump administration’s present-day threats against the region.
To Listen: https://therealnews.com/how-the-united-states-stole-mexico
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Transcript available
Bullet holes riddle the front wall of the former Churubusco Convent, where invading U.S. soldiers attacked on their way into Mexico City on August 20, 1847. Today, the building is home Mexico’s Museum of Interventions.
Increasingly, the U.S. government has their sights set on Mexico—promising to send in U.S. troops in the name of fighting cartels and advancing a so-called drug war policy. But President Trump’s actions hearken back to an older era of U.S. empire. Mexico has withstood a long history of foreign intervention by the Spanish, French, and multiple times by the United States.
In 1848, Mexico lost more than half its territory to the United States. The states of California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and more used to be part of Mexico.
In this episode of Under The Shadow, host Michael Fox visits Mexico’s National Museum of Interventions in Mexico City, to look back at the devastating history of foreign intervention in Mexico amid the U.S. government’s threats against Mexico and elsewhere in the region today.
It is in this context of Western imperialisms, past and present, that Rights Action does our ‘chipping away’ work, providing grassroots funding to land, environmental, justice, human rights and democracy struggles, and to community development and emergency relief projects primarily in Guatemala and Honduras. Rights Action works to denounce and hold accountable the U.S. and Canadian governments, global companies, investors and banks (World Bank, etc.) that help cause and profit from exploitation and poverty, repression and human rights violations, environmental harms, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala.
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