MAGA-fascism and the struggle in El Salvador

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[15]US-directed repression and counter-insurgency in El Salvador in the 1980s allowed the imposition of "free trade" or "neoliberal" regimes in the generations since then—ultimately culminating in the adoption of CAFTA. This, in turn, has exacerbated the expropriation of the traditional lands of the peasantry by the agro-export oligarchy. It also led to the hypertrophy of the narco economy and a new nightmare of violence, which Nayib Bukele has exploited to establish a new dictatorship. This dictatorship is now openly in league with Donald Trump, and has in fact become critical to his fascist agenda. In Episode 275 [16] of the CounterVortex podcast [17], Bill Weinberg breaks down El Salvador's historical role as a laboratory of genocide [18] and police-state methods [19] for US imperialism, and the imperative of trans-national resistance [20]. (Map: University of Texas [21])

US-directed repression and counter-insurgency in El Salvador in the 1980s allowed the imposition of "free trade" or "neoliberal" regimes in the generations since then—ultimately culminating in the adoption of CAFTA. This, in turn, has exacerbated the expropriation of the traditional lands of the peasantry by the agro-export oligarchy. It also led to the hypertrophy of the narco economy and a new nightmare of violence, which Nayib Bukele has exploited to establish a new dictatorship. This dictatorship is now openly in league with Donald Trump, and has in fact become critical to his fascist agenda. In Episode 275 [16] of the CounterVortex podcast [17], Bill Weinberg breaks down El Salvador's historical role as a laboratory of genocide [18] and police-state methods [19] for US imperialism, and the imperative of trans-national resistance [20].

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