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  • rainpizza
    2·
    30 days ago

    I have been finishing to read the book AntiDrug Capitalism(is from an author that could be considered trotskyist) and this part made me hate the US more.

    The translation of the highlighted part is the following:

    In 2011, Pemex filed a lawsuit in Houston against ten US oil and pipeline companies for collaborating with organized crime by buying stolen natural gas from Mexico’s Burgos Basin.

    “The cartels built tunnels and their own pipelines to facilitate the theft … All defendants have participated in and profited - knowingly or unknowingly - from the trafficking of illegal condensate into the United States and thereby encouraged and financed the Mexican organized crime groups that stole the condensate,” the complaint states.

    All of these entities have been militarized as part of the drug war, and some of them have high levels of displacement due to war-related violence.

    • Water Bowl Slime
      2·
      29 days ago

      Y aún así, los yanquis se creen los protectores de democracia y soberanía mundial.

      • rainpizza
        2·
        29 days ago

        La propaganda gringa funciona tristemente. Es muy buena engañando a la gente con slogans que ni los mismísimos yanquis creen.

        😔