Deadly capitalist peace
Over 2000 Mexican workers have died trying to illegally cross the US border since 1995. That amounts to one death for every mile or one death every 1.4 days. Immigrant workers drown in the Rio Grande, are shot by ranchers and border patrols or die from thirst in the desert. This silent massacre of workers whose only crime is looking for employment rarely if ever gets a headline. However, the numbers of this slaughter are nearly the same as the horrible bloodletting in Israel and Palestine. While everybody was right to cheer the tearing down of the hated Berlin Wall, it is good to remember that from 1961 to 1989, a total of 200 people died trying to cross the border there; not one tenth of the total workers dead in less than a third of the time at the Mexico-US border... Capitalism is a lethal system that is well served by the silence its propaganda machine keeps on such examples of its despicable infamy.
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