{"id":388443,"date":"2018-12-09T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/from-central-america-to-syria-the-conspiracy-against-refugees-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-09T14:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T13:02:12","slug":"from-central-america-to-syria-the-conspiracy-against-refugees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/from-central-america-to-syria-the-conspiracy-against-refugees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From Central America to Syria: The Conspiracy against Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Watching the ongoing debate between US liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding crisis in Central America.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, no other country is as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/trump-migrant-caravan-where-mexico-honduras-guatemala-central-america-a8597741.html\">accountable<\/a> as the United States for the Central American bedlam and resulting refugee crisis.<\/p>\n<p>So why, despite the seemingly substantial ideological and political differences between right-wing Fox News and liberal CNN, both media outlets are working hard to safeguard their country\u2019s dirty little secret?<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, state and gang violence \u2013 coupled with extreme poverty \u2013 have forced hundreds of thousands of people to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/09\/opinion\/trump-caravan-migrants-criminals.html\">flee<\/a> El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Honduras, among other countries, in Central and South America.<\/p>\n<p>US mainstream media, however, is rarely interested in the root cause of that reality.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News is tirelessly peddling the offensive language used by President Donald Trump, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-immigration-caravan\/trump-threatens-to-send-military-shut-border-as-migrants-head-for-mexico-idUSKCN1MS1TS\">perceives the refugees as criminals and terrorists<\/a>, who pose a threat to US national security.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference last October, Trump\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-xl\/latinamerica\/other\/take-your-cameras-and-search-trump-claims-ms-13-middle-eastern-migrants-part-of-caravan\/vp-BBOKRD5\">urged<\/a> a reporter to take his camera into \u201dthe middle\u201d of a caravan of migrants on the treacherous journey through Mexico, to locate \u201dMiddle Eastern\u201d people that have infiltrated the crowd. In Trump\u2019s thinking, \u2018Middle Eastern people\u2019 is synonymous with terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>CNN has, on the other hand, labored to counter the growing anti-immigrant official and media sentiments that have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/12\/from-central-america-to-syria-the-conspiracy-against-refugees\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching the ongoing debate between US liberal and right-wing pundits on US mainstream media, one rarely gets the impression that Washington is responsible for the unfolding crisis in Central America. In fact, no other country is as\u00a0accountable as the United States for the Central American bedlam and resulting refugee crisis. So why, despite the seemingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}