Today’s Central American migrants are blowback from U.S. interventions

Evidence

The drug trade’s violence and the proliferation of gangs have been mutually reinforcing. Combined with the violence of living in the second-poorest country in the hemisphere, there should be little surprise that Honduras has the world’s highest murder rate (followed by El Salvador, Belize, and Guatemala in the top five). Amid such deteriorating and desperate conditions, there should be equally little surprise that the United States has seen so many Central American migrants arriving at our borders. Like the migrants who arrived at U.S. borders in the 1980s, these new refugees are in part a kind of second and third wave of blowback from decades of supporting repressive governments with bases and military aid. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 314

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 314