DaveP said:
I did read it, but these things take time to go viral.
do you think they are related? I am less certain.
I have known for a long time that there are organisations and activists throughout the world who are determined to abolish borders everywhere. Whether they have worked out the consequences or even care I don't know.
Maybe they are channeling John Lennon (Imagine).
All I know is that when governments fail to act or listen, people turn to the ones who do. People they would never support if everything was hunky dory. In other words unpleasant right wing parties.
perhaps not that simple, but indeed a worldwide trend.
I feel sorry for these migrants as they are just being used as pawns in a far bigger game.
They are motivated to improve their personal circumstance, but indeed there are actors behind the scenes trying to gain advantage. This is a little reminiscent of the Mariel boat lift, when Castro dumped a bunch of undesirables on So FL in the midst of a humanitarian mass exodus.
I am curious as to how the caravan was stopped on the bridge, yet 5000 people got across by rafts? Was there a second contingent already waiting to join the numbers who got across the river?
Sorry I do not know details on the ground. AFAIK They were momentarily stopped at Mexican border but eventually overpowered border security and broke through. The number in the caravan is growing daily since entering Mexico, no doubt thanks to the 24/7 media coverage. If they believe this will have a happy ending the number will likely keep growing.
Over here the media have been obsessed with the death of Khashoggi for days on end, he was one of their own I note.
The media here is looking for how to pin this tale on President Trump. President Obama cooled our alliance with Saudis (sunnni) , and made overtures/concessions with Iran (shia). President Trump reversed that direction. The joker in this deck of cards is Turkey, using this as a wedge issue to disrupt US-Saudi relations, and take attention off Turkey's authoritarian drift in recent years. In fact Turkey has been pretty clever leaking out the evidence of Saudi misbehavior in drips and drops (death by a hundred cuts). Give them enough rope to claim nothing happened, then splash some damning video evidence.
There is no excuse for Saudi behavior, or their amateurish attempts to cover it up, but lets not be too shocked that stuff like this happens. It is wrong, but it happens, and people will try to spin this for advantage too (like Turkey, et al).
Last I heard the US CIA director is over in SA so this is being taken seriously (while she is mainly there to make a political statement and put pressure on the crown prince).
If anybody thinks the Saudis won't name multiple scape goats, buy a lottery ticket.
Not too much action being devoted to how this caravan was started or sustained, it probably takes more than a few loaves and fishes. The object is to present Trump as heartless in denying these people access and to consequently open the gates to the many others who would surely follow. Women and children are essential here, correct me if I'm wrong.
The message I get, is that the lack of law and order in Honduras and elsewhere is a good enough reason to be a migrant, but they would like law and order suspended at the border just so they can get in. I think that logic is faulty.
South/central America is struggling with left/right politics. Honduras resisted being pulled further left in 2009 but the tension down there is constant.
Law and order is the only thing that stops the US and Europe turning into Honduras, Venezuela and all the other basket cases.
DaveP
Rule of law is necessary for preserving almost everything we hold dear.
JR