And while we can’t see the west’s hand everywhere, it’s interesting to point out these kind of events our medias are ignoring, such as Haiti or Bangladesh : https://news.sky.com/story/bangladesh-prime-minister-resigns-after-deadly-protests-reports-13191184
(or we’ll talk about Venezuela instead of Rwanda or Tunisia(sry🤷), this kind of things, and when we talk about something it’s in order to act, out of “duty” or sthg)

t’was the main reason of the post above 🤷(, besides hoping to learn 1-2 things)(, i don’t intend to make one about Bangladesh but it’s always worth spending a few hours to learn more)

Thanks for the discussion

You’re saying that this program was a bad thing for the venezuelan/haitian/nicaraguan/cuban population, and i’m saying that 3 out of the 4 countries’ names were considered “terrorists” or w/e, without judging whether such decision was bad or a good, and mostly as an excuse to learn about Haiti.

This decision may have been taken solely on the basis of the number of illegal migrants, and not according to the ideology adopted by these nations(, although these two things are linked since by destroying their countries we’re creating a strong emigration).

But yes, i easily agree with you that the number of immigrants increased since the adoption of these immigration permits, and hence canceling them could be seen as a “good” thing for these countries. Instead of acknowledging that, i presented(, although not explicitly,) this decision as some kind of punishment towards these countries, sorry for that.

As a last note : if what matters here is whether this decision is a punishment or not, it should be asked if « The policy, introduced for Venezuelans in October 2022, and for the other three nationalities in January 2023 », was then purposefully directed at haitians in order to punish them for something ? Perhaps not.
Well, i.d.k., just thought it was weird to see its name alongside the three others, it reminded me that anti-westerners have been quite vocal there these last years, and i only wanted to make a post about it i guess

edit : At the same time, i wouldn’t be surprised to learn that i’ve made a mistake by agreeing with you that emigration will always weaken the country of origin, you could think that they may come back later with money, contacts, and diplomas, that they’ll send money to their family while working in the u.s., etc. If you have data that clearly illustrate your point i’m interested, from what i gathered it depends on the nature of the country of emigration(, e.g., it was a clear loss for the u.s.s.r. since education was free ?). It doesn’t seem to be something that everyone agrees with.
Which would mean that stopping this policy could in fact be a punishment instead of a good development(, even if that is still not my personal opinion : i agree with your reasoning that migrants mostly strengthens the country of immigration compared to their country of origin, larger is usually better, the arguments of the anti-immigrants are usually cultural and not economic b.t.w., and they’re often natalists).

Totally unrelated, but americans get offended when i’m implying that they’re not christians, and i think that very few israelis are indeed jews. But if we were truly religious according to my criteria we would just be destroyed by those who aren’t :

“Thou shall not kill” is great in theory, and it’s easy to say that i’d gladly prefer to be harmed than to harm, even to the point of being killed rather than defending myself ; that even the “Hitlers” wouldn’t be fought back by me, but what about defending someone else ?
I’m glad that many people( i haven’t read) researched what a “just war” meant in the past, yet i don’t think that those harming others for “good” are right either.
I don’t know…

And it was the birthday of el Comandante/Presidente Hugo Chávez yesterday.

An amazing victory despite all the fucking unjust western interferences and sanctions who destroyed their glorious country. Let’s destroy the u.s.a. so we shall see if they’ll elect a communist in order to escape further destruction.
But then some people will complain about frauds instead of western interferences/sanctions, fuck them.
B.t.w., even if we can never be certain that fraud didn’t occur, including in western countries :

And polls are unreliable, so the opposition cannot use them to affirm their victory :

Also :

I guess there’s no need to be angry, and i’m still so happy for the liberation of Julian Assange, just disappointed by the lack of support of (one of )the last french “leftist” newspaper, but there’s no reason to be surprised here as well, only Internet is left.

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They also passed a law to reduce the work week from 48 hours to 40 hours.

And he was among the most vocal support in favor of Julian Assange.

As a symbolic gesture, he also sold the (luxurious )presidential plane, that counts. Another symbol if i’m not misreading.

After nationalizing lithium(, calling for an alliance), he also nationalized 13 power plants, as well as in the oil industry, which was not appreciated(2mn video).

I remember many other examples of friction with the u.s.a., and of support for oppressed countries(, more on Cuba here.

Finally, on a topic not only related to Mexico, i found the sentence « If the country had continued to grow at this rate, it would have European living standards today », if these assumptions are true then it’s the damnedest argument against neoliberalism, some would say “not a bug but a feature”, and i couldn’t blame their suspicion. https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1676657181301547009

Interesting.

Here’s another one about Mexico :