What effect do you think the threat of famine has on the migrant situation in Latin America?

Are they in a famine crisis?

Drought 3 years in a row. Clearly, hunger is now the primary engine driving migration from Venezuela, Honduras, Guatemala, Bolivia

Those poor people.

Drought certainly isn’t helping. But the systematic policy of global capitalists (US as well as others) on Latin America is a large cause as well. But keep in mind that US-imposed sanctions against Venezuela may have already caused up tens of thousands of deaths.

What specifically do you mean by the effect “on the migrant situation”? Will it increase or decrease migration north, etc?

It would definitely augment the situation, IMO.

Augment? More like exacerbate.

@hmmmmmm I mean that such terms as seeking a better life or fleeing violence and oppression are thrown around willy nilly with rarely a mention of “we face starvation”. And I agree that such enlightened policies as Nafta are in large part responsible for the 3rd world knocking at our door. Nafta did to Latin America what corporate capitalism had already achieved in rural America, made it impossible to earn a living outside the cities. Flyover country here now pays the price, but imagine what that price might be in places with few to no cities.

Well, if “we face murder” isn’t going to move people why would facing starvation move them?

@stanleybmanly Exacerbate would work if the people were to try to stay where they were and not strive to move north to the US.

Exacerbate our situation? How about theirs? If you’re better off here in a prison camp than you would be back home in bed, and willing to walk 1500 miles to prove it…well, you get the point?

Augment their desire to move northward. Of course it would exacerbate our situation…
Ideally, they’d be better off dead than to be in some prison camp. Overpopulation does that.

Most of the world’s problems can be relegated to overpopulation in that numbers are required to bring things to a boil. However, there is no denying that policies promulgated by OUR government are in large part responsible for the pressure to go where the food is. It is no exaggeration to view the exodus as our chickens coming home to roost.

@Dutchess III It’s a peculiar thing Dutch, but I’m convinced that we are prepared to accept the thought of death from disorder and gang violence, but mass starvation for some reason remains a more daunting and conscience tugging prospect.