translated from Spanish: The progress of hunger | THE DEBATE

the assault of the millions of miserable from this world to the prosperous countries of the West has generated paranoia unparalleled in history. They resurrect phobias that were believed to be extinct, such as racism. When the 13 October 2018 they left the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula were a few hundred. Three weeks later, as I write this article, there are already around eight thousand. They have added them large number of Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans and no doubt also some Mexicans. They have advanced a few thousand kilometres and peak, walk day and night, sleeping on the road, eating what people charitable and so miserable as they themselves reach them when passing. Just enter Oaxaca and lack them the halfway point. The paranoia against the immigrant does not understand reasons and much less statistics. They are men and women and poor, impoverished children, and flee poverty, lack of work, the violence that was once only the bad bosses and the police, and is now, above all, the gangs, those bands of outlaws who force them to work for them carrying or selling drugs, and, if they refuse to do so, killing them to death and inflicting horrific torture. Mass migration will only be reduced when democratic culture has spread. where did it go? To the United States, of course. Why? Because it is a country where there is work, where you can save and send remittances to their families that save them from hunger and the Central American helplessness, because there are good schools and a security and a law that in their countries there. They know that President Trump has said that they are a real plague of thugs, rapists, which bring diseases, dirt and violence and that it will not allow the invasion and will mobilize at least 15,000 police and that, if they throw them stones, they shoot to kill. But don’t mind: prefer to die trying to enter paradise than the slow death and hopeless that awaits them where they were born, i.e., in hell. What intend is crazy, of course. Crazy identical to the thousands of thousands of Africans who, after walking for days, months, or years, dying like flies on the way, they arrive on the shores of the Mediterranean and are released to the sea in rafts, boats and barges, huddled like insects, knowing that many of them will die drowned – more than 2,000 already in the year – and unrealized dream that guides them: settle in European countries, where there is work, etcetera, etcetera. The assault of the millions of miserable from this world to the prosperous countries of the West has generated a paranoia unparalleled in history, at the end of which both in United States and in Western Europe rise phobias that were believed to be extinct, as the racism, xenophobia, nationalism, populism from right and left, and a growing political violence. A process which, if it continues, could destroy perhaps the most precious creation of Western culture, democracy, and restore that barbarity which we thought having RID, which has sunk to Central America and much of Africa in this horror of that deal of its natural to escape so dramatically. The paranoia against the immigrant does not understand reasons and much less statistics. It is useless to the technicians explain that without immigrants, developed countries could not maintain their high living standards and generally – the exceptions are scarce-, who migrate tend to respect the laws of the host countries and work hard, precisely because they are works not only to survive, but to thrive, and this stimulation greatly benefiting societies receiving migrants. Is that not the case of the United States? Was it not to open borders of wide when it prospered and grew and became the giant that is now? Was not Argentina the most prosperous country in Latin America and one of the most advanced in the world thanks to immigration? It is useless, fear the immigrant is the fear of “the other”, to which differs by language, or the color of their skin or the gods worshipped, and that alienation is inoculated thanks to frantic demagoguery in which certain groups and political movements are incurred in a way irresponsabl e, poking a fire in which we burn just and sinners at the same time. Many times has happened in history, so we should be warned. The problem of illegal immigration has no immediate solution and everything you say to the contrary is false, starting with the walls that would lift Trump. Immigrants continue to entering by air or by the ground the United States is that rich country and opportunities, the magnet that attracts them. And the same is true of Europe. The only possible solution is that the countries from which the migrants flee were prosperous, something which is now within the reach of any nation, but that African, Central American and much of the third world countries have rejected by blindness, corruption and political fanaticism. In Latin America, it is very clear for those who want to see it. Why Chileans do not flee from Chile? Because there is no work, the country progresses very fast and that creates hope for the poor. Why flee desperate of Venezuela? Because they know that in the hands of the bandits that today govern, that unhappy society, which could be the most prosperous on the continent, will continue to decline without remedy. Countries, as opposed to human beings in which death puts an end to the suffering, can follow barbarizing without end. The millions of poor people who want to work in Western countries pay a great tribute to democratic culture, which took them from the barbarity they also lived not long ago, and which were leaving due to private ownership the free market, legislation, culture and which is the engine of everything: freedom. The formula has not expired at all as they would have us believe certain catastrophic ideologues. Countries that apply it, progress. Those who reject it, back off. Today, thanks to globalization, is still much easier and faster than in the past. The Taiwanese understand number of Asian countries as well and, therefore, the transformation of societies such as the South Korean, or Singapore is so spectacular. In Europe, Switzerland and Sweden, perhaps countries that have reached the highest levels in the world, were poor – impoverished – and in the century nineteen were sent to earn a living abroad to migrants as helpless as that in our days out of Honduras El Salvador or Venezuela.Las mass migration will only be reduced when democratic culture has spread to Africa and other countries of the third world and investments and work eleven levels of life so that in these societies is the feeling between the working poor that is possible to get out of poverty. That is now within the reach of any country, by underdog that is. It was Hong Kong a century ago and ceased to be in a few years by turning to the world and creating an open and free, guaranteed by a strict legality. So much so that Popular China has respected this system, although radically cutting their political freedom.

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