The United States under Trump: Against the World, Its Own People, and the Migrant Diasporas By Gonzalo Santos[1] Abstract This essay attempts to analyze the present conjuncture in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, from the perspective of the historical sociology of the world-system. Its underlying thesis is that the internal crisis in the U.S., which so profoundly affects the migrant diasporas now fiercely persecuted, and the renewed imperialist foreig

California, the land of Disneyland and Hollywood, has long been the origin of creative worlds of fantasy, including excelling at the art of performative politics (is there any other kind?). After all, B-actors such as Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger performed the role of “Governor of the Golden State” splendidly, with impeccable panache, exuding charisma and star power unrivaled by any of their more boring peers elsewhere. In a cinematic era that yielded such gems as

First, a local history of May Day, from 2006 to 2026. It is well known that going back to its earliest history, Bakersfield, California, had a well-earned reputation of being a bastion of conservatism and Big Agriculture/Big Oil power, where mass protests simply never happened. Such protests, such as did appear in the Southern San Joaquin Valley going back to the 1900s, 1920s &30s, 1940s & 50s, and especially in the 1960s, were mostly carried out by striking migrant farmworke