Punishing hurricanes to spur more Central American migration (from @AP)
https://apnews.com/article/f7071e362...8d06e9c4bb341f
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The hurricanes’ destruction comes on top of the economic paralysis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the persistent violence and lack of jobs that have driven families north from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador in great numbers during recent years.
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Among the hardest-hit areas was Honduras’ north, the country’s most productive agricultural region. The Sula Valley reported massive crop losses raising fears of food shortages. Damaged businesses mean fewer jobs.
Thousands of homes were destroyed and the infamous gang violence has not relented. Some residents around San Pedro Sula reported gangs charging a tax to boats trying to rescue people from flooded neighborhoods.
Mauro Verzeletti, director of the Casa del Migrante in Guatemala City, said the storms will increase poverty on top of the violence people already faced, forcing more to migrate.
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Every hurricane season is worse than the last and there’s no end in sight. It’s an apocalypse down there.
Food insecurity has already become a serious problem in the US. African regions are on the cusp of famines that will rival the worst 20th century monsters.
But don’t worry the ingenious minds cultivated by capitalism have got this. They’re going to build a machine with computers and ****.
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.the...-mining-deaths
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The world’s soaring demand for cobalt is at times met by workers, including children, who labor in harsh and dangerous conditions. An estimated 100,000 cobalt miners in Congo use hand tools to dig hundreds of feet underground with little oversight and few safety measures, according to workers, government officials and evidence found by The Washington Post during visits to remote mines. Deaths and injuries are common. And the mining activity exposes local communities to levels of toxic metals that appear to be linked to ailments that include breathing problems and birth defects, health officials say.
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