Benjamin T. Smith
@benjamintsmith7.bsky.social
History Content Provider at University of Warwick. "If Raymond Chandler had written a history of the drug trade, it would read like the Dope"
Odd, met very few Cruz Azul fans in Oaxaca. None in team I played for...very badly.
December 14, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Odd, met very few Cruz Azul fans in Oaxaca. None in team I played for...very badly.
Well deserved. Congrats! Just finished it. Genuine eye opener.
December 14, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Well deserved. Congrats! Just finished it. Genuine eye opener.
Yep, v true. How can you claim state can't find organised crime if it can capture 350k migrants in 2 months.
December 13, 2024 at 1:31 PM
Yep, v true. How can you claim state can't find organised crime if it can capture 350k migrants in 2 months.
Here's a fucking cat.
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Here's a fucking cat.
Rant over. Here's a podcast I did on this open.spotify.com/show/6w9YAIl...
Borderland with Vincent 'Rocco' Vargas
Podcast · IRONCLAD · New Episodes Every Monday. An unfiltered look at real stories from America's Southern Border. Each week, special operations combat veteran, actor, writer, and veteran BORSTAR A...
open.spotify.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Rant over. Here's a podcast I did on this open.spotify.com/show/6w9YAIl...
Wake up. This is the liberal order, just like the old one. For communists read migrants. West is just exporting its problems to other countries, while maintaining a thin veneer of civilisation.
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Wake up. This is the liberal order, just like the old one. For communists read migrants. West is just exporting its problems to other countries, while maintaining a thin veneer of civilisation.
Rich countries farm out the state of exception to poorer neighbours. While media wang on about tariffs (never going to happen) and end of liberal order.
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Rich countries farm out the state of exception to poorer neighbours. While media wang on about tariffs (never going to happen) and end of liberal order.
Yet what is happening in Mexico (and Hungary, and Poland, and Turkey) appears to be the key dynamic in contemporary international relations.
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Yet what is happening in Mexico (and Hungary, and Poland, and Turkey) appears to be the key dynamic in contemporary international relations.
Morenistas ignore it (as it is a stain on AMLO and Sheinbaum's governments...payment for a degree of national autonomy). Nor does the PRIAN (same reason as the Republicans).
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Morenistas ignore it (as it is a stain on AMLO and Sheinbaum's governments...payment for a degree of national autonomy). Nor does the PRIAN (same reason as the Republicans).
Yet, US liberals don't talk about it (as Democrats as complicit in this as Republicans). Republicans don't talk about this (as they don't give a shit).
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Yet, US liberals don't talk about it (as Democrats as complicit in this as Republicans). Republicans don't talk about this (as they don't give a shit).
Military effectively runs detention centres. And often shoot to kill www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Torture, rape, extrajudicial killing is common.
Six migrants killed after Mexico soldiers open fire
Officials say the incident happened after a military patrol saw a vehicle carrying 33 migrants travelling at speed.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Military effectively runs detention centres. And often shoot to kill www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Torture, rape, extrajudicial killing is common.
Right, got your attention. Can someone explain to me why no one is talking about/investigating the 500,000 migrants detained in Mexico on U.S. orders? In just October and November, 350,000 were detained. www.reuters.com/world/americ....
Mexico detains more than 5,200 migrants in single day
Mexican authorities detained more than 5,200 migrants across the country on Tuesday, officials said on Wednesday, in a major sweep as the nation is under pressure from the incoming U.S. government to crack down on arrivals at the U.S.-Mexico border.
www.reuters.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Right, got your attention. Can someone explain to me why no one is talking about/investigating the 500,000 migrants detained in Mexico on U.S. orders? In just October and November, 350,000 were detained. www.reuters.com/world/americ....
Here's something thoughtless and snobbish about Trump supporters.
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Here's something thoughtless and snobbish about Trump supporters.
Here is a picture of some books.
December 13, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Here is a picture of some books.
There are currently 500,000 migrants in Mexican detention centres. It is the story no one will touch.
December 6, 2024 at 11:41 AM
There are currently 500,000 migrants in Mexican detention centres. It is the story no one will touch.
Don't worry, they won't affect the price of your car. But they will be used to stick 100s of 1000s of Central and South Americans in squalid, militarised detention centres in Mexico.
December 6, 2024 at 11:41 AM
Don't worry, they won't affect the price of your car. But they will be used to stick 100s of 1000s of Central and South Americans in squalid, militarised detention centres in Mexico.
What no one seems to mention is that they are not policy proposals but THREATS. They are aimed entirely at forcing Mexico to act as the US's Border Patrol.
December 6, 2024 at 11:41 AM
What no one seems to mention is that they are not policy proposals but THREATS. They are aimed entirely at forcing Mexico to act as the US's Border Patrol.
They are covered by the Anglophone newspapers like they are realistic policy proposals. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... They are mostly just ignored in Mexico.
www.independent.co.uk
December 6, 2024 at 11:41 AM
They are covered by the Anglophone newspapers like they are realistic policy proposals. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... They are mostly just ignored in Mexico.
But it has made me even more annoyed about coverage of Trump's threats against Mexico.
December 6, 2024 at 11:41 AM
But it has made me even more annoyed about coverage of Trump's threats against Mexico.