Sen. Leahy lays out depths of reach of U.S. government’s (& capital it protects) tentacles in #ElSalvador 🐙 with zero self-reflection abt how the economic policies they’ve been able to impose up to this point might play a role in the current state of affairs...
https://twitter.com/SenatorLeahy/status/1394385478753865731
Despite mass organizing & wide disapproval of dollarization, CAFTA & pro-privatization policies (intended to privilege the private sector w/in essential goods & services... bc you know... trickle down blah blah blah)...
Despite the fact that their financing of military & police to protect private property has clearly lead to death & disappearances of land defenders in the region...
Despite the fact that #Bukele’s program will lead to the same destruction (regardless of his populist lies). But yes, empire will empire...
I’m frustrated at so many’s ability to ignore the fact that Salvadorans feel the level of hopelessness that they feel bc of the failures of the capitalist system violently imposed by the U.S. That’s what #Bukele’s populism mostly speaks to
Oh and bc you know, water management, education, etc can only run efficiently if the private sector do it...
https://twitter.com/yesiarely/status/1394461313326276609
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