Here is an important observation from Heather Gies:
"Journalist and author Dawn Paley reported two years ago that the Alliance for Prosperity, proposed as a solution to the increase in unaccompanied Central American children arriving in the United States, was likely to deepen the refugee crisis because it proposed the same kinds of corporate projects and militarized security that community leaders in the region were fighting to stop. 'Far from improving the situation, four years on, we see increased social and environmental conflict, increased militarization, increased polarization, increased poverty and an ongoing mass exodus,' she tells In These Times of the Alliance for Prosperity."
Source - https://www.facebook.com/heather.gies.5
And the overthrow of Venezuela's government being orchestrated by John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and Elliott Abrams is not going to help. We're just pouring gasoline on an already raging fire.
And why send troops to Colombia, other than as a provocation? That sounds like Bolton's stupid idea:
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Here is further discussion of the issue:
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Now comes Nicholas Kristof with some ideas how to spend Trump's wall money:
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Dear Nicholas - He doesn't have any wall money. The initiatives you suggest should be funded by cutting back on military spending, but ONLY after the budget is balanced. Congress seems to be INCAPABLE of doing the right thing.