please talk about Latin America.
I feel like I need to talk about what America is trying to do with Brazil and figured this might as well be the nicest place I could talk about. For context I'm Brazilian.
If it wasn't any obvious to people, the current American administration is the most imperialistic the US has ever been in recent history, and this is coming from someone with a literal history major, the president seems to think the world revolves around it's nose, but the US is not the world's police for decisions such as wars and who governs what to be taken or justified.
In 1964, in the peak of the Cold War (Post Cuban Missile Crisis), Brazil suffered a US-backed military coup as the US saw the need to keep Latin America under it's belt for it to not "fall under communism's hands", so tell me why such a military government basically sold our entire country to it and made us rely so much in the US? Why was our national industry basically scrapped in benefit of American manufacturers? Our minerals? Our oil industry? And they could've kept getting away with it if not for hundreds of thousand of Brazilians going onto the streets to protest for democracy, and even after the country re-democratized the US' influence kept lingering here.
It is no secret that since Brazil's very birth as a sovereign republic, the US has looked at my nation as a puppet, an opportunity, a gold mine to be explored, Brazilian marxist author Caio Padro in his book "O Sentido da Colonização" (The Recipient of Colonialism) argues that the imperialistic and colonial ambitions that Brazil has seen since it's very existance still reside in it's economic endeavors to this day, only that the recipient changed from Europe to North America (The US especifically.).
They came for Venezuela first, they influenced Argentina in every way possible, they are considering action against Colombia, now Brazil is next. They are actively trying to push an agenda that the criminal organizations here be classified as terrorist organizations. They are making up ARTICLES (with outdated 2018 images from unrelated events) about how dangerous cities have been due to criminal activities, our former president (Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian equivalent of Donald Trump) asked for permission of our Supreme Court to get in contact with advisors of the Trump administration recently, as he is imprisoned and should stay that way. They have called South America its backyard, BACKYARD, we are NOT important for them. Do y'all not realize how serious this is?
This is only happening because the US cannot stand seeing it's little empire crumble before it's eyes, because Brazil has been making deals with countries that aren't it, because our country when threatened with tariffs stood up against them and showed that we are not going to be puppets anymore, because the American war machine needs OIL and RARE EARTHS, which Brazil has plenty of.
Please, for a moment look at your neighbours, take action, talk about us, if you truly care about being against this administration, you need to use your reach and first world privileges to PROTEST more than you have already been trying to. Brazil WILL have the same treatment that Venezuela had if not enough people talk about this. Soon all of Latin America will be nothing but slaves of the United States. As much as we down here try, our efforts cannot compete with the American dollar.
