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Today, the transnational wars on crime and drug trafficking have displaced anti-communism

to become the dominant frameworks for prosecuting and legitimating U.S. intervention in Latin America,

particularly in Mexico and Central America.

Proversely, these violent interventions, along with hardening militarized border controls,

not only at the U.S. southern border, but through southern Mexico and beyond,

it's also all supposed to help stop people from migrating to the United States.

The reality, of course, is that the U.S. is very unlikely to solve the Central American migration crisis

because it has done so much to create the conditions that drive people from their homes,

in which have now led to yet another manufactured crisis at our southern

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