![]() ![]() Most Americans are not aware of that because most Americans don’t even think of our country as an empire. the mass migration flows of Latin Americans to this country were a direct response to the needs of the empire. ![]() And Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Salvador, Guatemala, these are the countries that have provided the bulk of the migration from Latin America, largely many of them fleeing from the civil wars, as in the cases of Guatemala and Nicaragua and El Salvador, in which the United States government played a key role in backing one side or the other, others coming here as a result of the needs of American businesses that established migration and recruiting, actually recruited people to come here to fill jobs - that’s more so in the case of the Puerto Ricans and the Mexicans. And in fact, those countries that were most dominated by the United States are the ones that have sent the most migrants to this country. It is the result of more than a century of domination of many of these countries. you cannot understand the enormous Latino presence in the United States unless you understand America’s role in Latin America, and in fact that the Latino presence in the country is the harvest of the empire. “he central theme of Harvest of Empire is that. Juan Gonzalez describes his book in an interview on Democracy Now!: ![]()
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