I know that central Americans are very socially conservative; in general, that’s the way with rural people. I also know that there’s an economic left undercurrent that’s been present for a long time; it’s why the CIA overthrew the Guatemalan government for United Fruit and sponsored reactionary militias to go around murdering people and torching villages. I think that the right wing of the US never really forgave central America for “making us” (massive sarcasm quotes) destabilize their governments. The other half of that is that we’ve basically caused this crisis in our back yard, which is kind of the opposite problem to modern Russia. Where the USSR built up, modernized, and industrialized the countries it had direct control/ influence over, the US has done everything possible to keep central and south America down, so now you end up with Russia eager to reclaim (by any means) the valuable parts of the USSR that fell away in the 90s, and the US eager to keep out the people fleeing the shit we’ve been flinging over the wall for the better part of a hundred years.
I know that central Americans are very socially conservative; in general, that’s the way with rural people. I also know that there’s an economic left undercurrent that’s been present for a long time; it’s why the CIA overthrew the Guatemalan government for United Fruit and sponsored reactionary militias to go around murdering people and torching villages. I think that the right wing of the US never really forgave central America for “making us” (massive sarcasm quotes) destabilize their governments. The other half of that is that we’ve basically caused this crisis in our back yard, which is kind of the opposite problem to modern Russia. Where the USSR built up, modernized, and industrialized the countries it had direct control/ influence over, the US has done everything possible to keep central and south America down, so now you end up with Russia eager to reclaim (by any means) the valuable parts of the USSR that fell away in the 90s, and the US eager to keep out the people fleeing the shit we’ve been flinging over the wall for the better part of a hundred years.