"Migrants" rush border and fight with Mexican troops

Military police guard the border between Guatemala and Mexico on Saturday. Guatemalan authorities say around 4,000 people have arrived in the country in the last few days, the biggest surge since Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador signed accords with the United States that increase pressure on them to deal with migrants

A story you will NOT see on the corporate controlled TV news

(Daily Mail)  -  Migrants clashed with Mexican troops on a bridge at the Guatemalan border on Saturday, as hundreds of guards also lined the banks of the river to prevent further crossings there.   

Thousands of Central American migrants tried to push their way across a bridge spanning the Suchiate River between Mexico and Guatemala. 

Honduran migrants waved their country's flag and sang the national anthem as they approached the bridge. At the height of the confrontation, Guatemalan authorities estimated 2,500 migrants were on the bridge, or attempting to get on it. 

Scuffles briefly broke out as a group of several hundred mostly Honduran migrants pressed forward to cross, only to be pushed back by security forces.

Scores of people who entered Guatemala from Honduras in recent days have been arriving at the Mexican border, with the bulk of them still advancing in a larger caravan, testing the resolve of Mexico to heed US demands to contain migrant flows. 

Hundreds of guardsmen lined the river to prevent migrants from crossing into Mexico clandestinely. The voice on the loudspeaker warned, over and over, that those aiming to transit through Mexico may not be granted asylum in the U.S., even if they make it there. 

Amid shoves, Mexican officials did allow a few migrants to enter the country in groups of 20, while a voice over a loudspeaker warned migrants against trying to slip into Mexico without passing through immigration filters. 

Mexico again finds itself in the role of immigration enforcer as Central Americans desperate for a better life try to make their way north, while Mexico's biggest trade partner - the United States -insists that Mexico prevent those migrants from reaching the U.S. border. 

President Donald Trump has threatened to hurt Mexico and Central American countries economically if they allow large groups to reach the United States border, and the latest exodus from Honduras has been accompanied by US border agents.

On Friday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador offered 4,000 jobs to members of the caravan in an attempt to dissuade them from traveling on to the United States. 

Guatemalan authorities say around 4,000 people have arrived in the country in the last few days, the biggest surge since Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador signed accords with the United States that increase pressure on them to deal with migrants.

After waiting on a bridge at the Guatemalan border town of Tecun Uman, some migrants began pushing and shoving before being driven back by Mexican security officials, who shut the border crossing and sought to calm the group. 

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Television footage from the morning showed a group of migrants jostling and clashing with members of Mexico's National Guard on the bridge separating Guatemala from Mexico

A migrant climbs the fence at the border crossing between Guatemala and Mexico in Tecun Uman, Guatemala on Saturday

Mexican security officials closed the border at the crossing between Tecun Uman, Guatemala and Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico

Mexico Declares War on U.S. - Helps Invasion

It is Invasion

“Caravana Madre”: Mexico Warns 20,000 Migrant ‘Mother of All Caravans’ Forming in Honduras

EDITOR  -  For years Mexico has been actively helping the invasion of the U.S.  This is invasion and war.  

Personally I don't give a shit about Germany or Afghanistan. I say bring our troops home to protect the borders of the United States.


Mexico’s Interior Minster Olga Sánchez Cordero sounded the alarm Wednesday about a new caravan, dubbed “Caravana Madre” (Mother of All Caravans), forming in Honduras that could swell to 20,000 migrants trying to enter the United States after crossing Mexico. Mexico will reportedly change its visa policy to try keep migrants from traveling north through the country, but will not militarize the border to stop the migrants.

El Economista reported (via Google Translate):

Mexico is preparing to face the problem of mass migration, before the so-called “Caravan Mother”, which is being formed in Honduras with a contingent that is estimated could reach more than 20,000 people.

The Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero, explained the above in the framework of the XXXII National Legal and Fiscal Consultation for Churches and Religious Associations, organized by the National Confraternity of Evangelical Christian Churches (Cofraternice).

In an interview with the media, the federal official explained that this was one of the central issues that she addressed in her meeting with the Secretary of National Security of the United States, Kisrstjen Nielsen.

…Currently, it is known that at least 2,400 people have joined a new caravan and that in Honduras they are preparing for what they have called the “Caravan Mother”, with 20,000 migrants.

If this situation continues, Sánchez Cordero explained, at the end of the year there would be close to 900,000 migrants crossing to the United States, which represents a complex situation for Mexico because it is a transit country.

ABC Noticias reported Sánchez Cordero is asking countries in the Northern Triangle–Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador– to stop the caravan (via translation.)

The Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sanchez Cordero, warned that a “Mother Caravan” is being organized in Honduras and therefore demanded that the governments of the so-called Northern Triangle do their part to stop this movement.

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Back When Americans Had Balls
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General Blackjack Pershing took charge of the 8th Brigade in San Francisco.  His mission was to patrol the Mexican – American border in response to the wave of instability and revolution sweeping Mexico. 
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Put the Army on the Mexican Border

Democrat President Wilson used the army to protect America's borders.
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Today Democrats and Republicans in Congress work together as the paid lackeys of open borders Wall Street interests wanting endless cheap labor.

YES! - Latvia and Honduras back Obama in Syria

"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

Mark Twain

(1835-1910)

The Mysterious Stranger, Ch.9

Coalition of the willing on Syria includes such

superpowers as Albania, Estonia, Honduras

Bullshit Alert  -  The political Bullshit is flowing deep and heavy.  Here is my latest theory.  Obama does not care if there is a war or not. This has all been a cynical ploy to keep the Police State NSA and IRS scandals off TV and the media.

If war "breaks" out, fine for Obama.  War crushes scandal stories.  But a threat of possible war could be dragged out for months accomplishing the same thing.

In any case, Obama goes on playing the game of war for TV.  He is telling the weak of mind about all the "allies" we have in attacking Syria.  None of these countries are sending their military to help, but don't worry, we are in their thoughts.

The White House announced Monday that Albania is on board with the Obama administration’s plans to punish Syria.

Tiny Estonia, too, has agreed that Syria must be held accountable for using chemical weapons. And Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania and Morocco.

And let’s not leave out Qatar, Romania and the United Arab Emirates.

They are the latest countries to sign on to a statement condemning the Syrian regime and calling for a “strong international response,” although not necessarily the missile strikes proposed by Obama. A total of 25 nations support the statement, including the U.S. and Great Britain.

(Washington Times)


Bullshit Alert  -  Politicians are talking.



Zero?
How many divisions will Albania send to Syria when Obama goes in to "protect" the chemical weapons sites he just bombed?  If your number is near zero you win our grand prize - a one week vacation in beautiful Lebanon. (Kevlar vest not included.)

Random Thought
Saudi Arabia is all hot to trot to get Syria.  I say let the Saudis send in their own air force.  Keep the U.S. out of the Middle Eastern insanity.  The Royal Saudi Air Force maintains the third largest fleet of F-15s after the USAF and the JASDF.
(Royal Saudi Air Force)

Broke US wastes $660 million on Central American Drug War

The Failed Drug War
Congress spent nearly $700 million in money we do not have on a Central American drug war that cannot be won

• Homicide rates in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras are significantly higher than in violence-plagued Mexico.
• Congress refuses to consider decriminalization to destroy the power of the violent cartels.

The U.S. is spending hundreds of millions in money we do not have to fight a drug war in Central America.

U.S. officials estimate that 84% of U.S.-bound cocaine passes through Central America. In Guatemala, the Congressional Research Service recently noted, at least 40% of the country is believed to be under the "effective control" of drug traffickers. Homicide rates in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras are significantly higher than in violence-plagued Mexico, yet few cases result in convictions reports the Los Angeles Times.

Since 2007, Congress has appropriated $496 million for an aid program, the Central America Regional Security Initiative. The Department of Defense has kicked in $160 million of "counter-narcotics support" funds over the same period.


Guatemalan President says drug war has failed
 

The Drug War in Guatemala: A Conversation with Giancarlo Ibarguen
Over 5,000 drug killings a year.

Bruce Bagley, a Latin America expert at the University of Miami, says those are paltry numbers compared with the $1.9 billion in dedicated drug-war funds provided to Mexico since 2007, or the roughly $8 billion given to Colombia in the decade-long aid program that had some success in rolling back cartel influence there.

In recent years, the U.S. has also showered Central American governments with hardware to help stem the flow of drugs: aircraft, boats, X-ray cargo scanners, ballistic vests and wiretapping centers.  Translation - American businesses are making money selling products to the government to fight the "war" on drugs.

Villa Nueva's video surveillance system is one of several projects meant to help fight the explosion in violent crime that has destabilized local governments and prompted some residents to head north toward the U.S., often illegally, in search of peace.

But the crime-fighting initiative goes far beyond surveillance cameras. The U.S. is also investing in civic projects under the theory that the drug war here cannot be won without more skilled and trustworthy police and prosecutors, along with an engaged citizenry that has reason to hope.

• U.S. "security initiative" tax dollars provide poor children with alternatives to crime such as break-dancing performances and clown and juggling programs.

(Los Angeles Times)

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THE FEDERALIST - US Marines are on the ground in Guatemala



The Drug War creates a militarized society.  But politicians
refuse to decriminalize drugs to remove the gang violence.



The murder capital of the world

Honduras had the highest per-capita murder rate as Mexican drug cartels expanded smuggling networks into Central America. U.S. officials say the north coast of Honduras is the beginning of a drug pipeline to the United States.

DRUG WAR: Green Berets in Honduras

Welcome to the endless "war" on drugs.
An American task force member refueling a Black Hawk helicopter in Puerto Castilla.

The Drug War Gets Hot  -  U.S. Military in Central America

• U.S. bases in Honduras
• Green Berets are on the ground 
• Drug Enforcement Administration "support" teams.
• Endless billions spent in a "war" that cannot be won.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE MOCORON, Honduras

The Drug War is big business . . . for the government.  Endless demands to grow law enforcement with more police (and resulting in more police union members), more expensive equipment, more prosecutors and more prisons with unionized prison guards.

It is a both a war that cannot be won and at the same time the "war" is a growth industry lining the pockets of everyone involved with billions in taxpayer money.  Both the American Left and Right are cashing in on the war bonanza.

The New York Times reports that the United States military has troops on the ground in Honduras to fight the drug war.  The U.S. has been constructing a remote base camp with little public notice but with the support of the Honduran government.

It is one of three new forward bases here — one in the rain forest, one on the savanna and one along the coast — each in a crucial location to interdict smugglers moving cocaine toward the United States from South America.

Honduras is the latest focal point in America’s drug war. As Mexico puts the squeeze on narcotics barons using its territory as a transit hub, more than 90 percent of the cocaine from Colombia and Venezuela bound for the United States passes through Central America. More than a third of those narcotics make their way through Honduras, a country with vast ungoverned areas — and one of the highest per capita homicide rates in the world.

American-Honduran military bases in the drug war 

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The U.S. mission there has been adapted to strict rules of engagement prohibiting American combat in Central America

In creating the new outposts — patterned on the forward bases in Iraq and Afghanistan that gave troops a small, secure home on insurgent turf — spartan but comfortable barracks were built. Giant tanks hold 4,500 gallons of helicopter fuel. Solar panels augment generators. Each site supports two-week rotations for 55 people, all no more than 30 to 45 minutes’ flying time from most smuggling handoff points.

Before his assignment to Central America, Col. Ross A. Brown spent 2005 and 2006 in Iraq as commander of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment’s Third Squadron, responsible for southern Baghdad.

Colonel Brown is now commander of Joint Task Force-Bravo, where he and just 600 troops are responsible for the military’s efforts across all of Central America. He is under orders to maintain a discreet footprint, supporting local authorities and the Drug Enforcement Administration, which leads the American counternarcotics mission.

The Insane Drug War in Honduras

American troops here cannot fire except in self-defense, and they are barred from responding with force even if Honduran or Drug Enforcement Administration agents are in danger. Within these prohibitions, the military marshals personnel, helicopters, surveillance airplanes and logistical support that Honduras and even the State Department and D.E.A. cannot. 

“By countering transnational organized crime, we promote stability, which is necessary for external investment, economic growth and minimizing violence,” Colonel Brown said. “We also are disrupting and deterring the potential nexus between transnational organized criminals and terrorists who would do harm to our country.”

Conducting operations during a recent day at the outpost were members of the Honduran Tactical Response Team, the nation’s top-tier counter-narcotics unit. They were working alongside the Foreign-deployed Advisory Support Team, or FAST, created by the Drug Enforcement Administration to disrupt the poppy trade in Afghanistan. With the campaign in Afghanistan winding down — and with lowered expectations of what Washington can do to halt heroin trafficking there — FAST members were in Honduras to plan interdiction missions in Central America.

And Honduran Special Operations forces, with trainers from American Special Forces — the Army’s Green Berets — were ferried from the outpost by Honduran helicopters to plant explosives that would cut craters into smugglers’ runways. Honduran infantrymen provided security for the outpost, which remains under Honduran command.

(New York Times)

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A New Zealand Anti-Prohibition Poster.
Debate over the prohibition of alcohol remained one of New Zealand’s most contentious political issues in the 1920s. This pro-continuance poster, probably from 1925 or 1928, shows a New Zealand soldier kicking an old man representing Uncle Sam back across the sea from New Zealand to North America. It urges New Zealanders not to follow the United States in banning alcohol and claims prohibition there (in force since 1919) has caused more harm than good.