He even sent Bannon there to bumble around and make firm bonds with Argentina's version of Rush Limbaugh. Trump was tight with former President Mauricio Macri, whose father was also a fascist racist lunatic wealthy man, like Trump's, and they all met earlier in New York when both fathers did enormous real estate developing.
DU'ers were lucky when a great former Argentine citizen started posting at DU years ago. He is very familiar with US-Artentina relations and history up to this minute. We got a very clear view of that time from him.
Now that Milei has become the President, Trump and Elon are close pals with him. Milei is even the one who campaigned using the obnoxious chain saw to illustrate how he would cut public spending. Milei was on stage in the US when Elon Musk also dragged out a chain saw and made a similar fool of himself.
Racists are terrified that if "white women's" have abortions, there won't be a glut of white baybees to control the country and ride herd over everyone else. If the truth were known, they probably would love to force brown or black women to have abortions, or even sabotage them before they become pregnant.
That stunt was already unrolled in Peru, when former President Fujimori had his government trick native citizen women into being sterilized without informing them what had happened in his own version of Early Genocide:
Wikipedia:
Forced sterilization in Peru
Under the administration of President Alberto Fujimori, Peru implemented a forced sterilization campaign as part of the National Population Program, primarily targeting impoverished and Indigenous women in rural Andean regions. This effort, regarded as the largest state-sponsored sterilization initiative in the Americas,[1] was publicly presented as a progressive strategy for promoting reproductive health and economic development. However, it has been broadly denounced for its coercive methods and associated human rights abuses.
The program drew on long-standing eugenic doctrines and neo-Malthusian theories, which linked excessive population growth to poverty and national instability. These concepts were encapsulated in Plan Verde, a military strategy conceived during the Peruvian Civil War (1980–2000). Under Fujimori, these ideas were transformed into a systematic policy purportedly designed to reduce poverty and high birth rates.
Women were frequently sterilized without informed consent, sometimes under pressure or in exchange for basic necessities such as food or healthcare. Medical personnel received monetary bonuses—typically ranging from four to ten dollars—for each sterilization they conducted, and promotions were tied to achieving specific targets. Failure to meet these quotas could negatively affect a health worker's career. Between 1996 and 2000, an estimated 300,000 sterilizations took place, disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities.
Numerous international and domestic organizations have condemned the campaign as a crime against humanity, with some categorizing it as ethnic cleansing or genocide. Efforts to prosecute those responsible have encountered legal and political barriers, resulting in limited accountability. In recent years, victims and advocacy groups have sought formal recognition and justice, though significant hurdles remain in obtaining comprehensive reparations and ensuring full responsibility for those involved.
More:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_sterilization_in_Peru
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Washington Post:
Peru’s government forcibly sterilized Indigenous women from 1996 to 2001, the women say. Why?
Indigenous women have been demanding justice ever since.
By Ñusta Carranza Ko
Feb. 19, 2021 at 4:26 p.m. UTC
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Under the authoritarian government of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), thousands of Indigenous Peruvian women say they were forcibly sterilized under a family planning program launched to “promote, prevent, cure, and rehabilitate reproductive health to the highest quality.” Nearly three decades later, on Jan. 11, the first hearing on Indigenous Peruvian women who say they were coercively sterilized took place.
How did this happen? To find answers, I collected data through archival research, interviews of human rights experts and victims’ public testimonies. My research finds that the family planning program, rooted in colonial-era discrimination, targeted people of Indigenous descent who were considered to be the “problem factor for economic development” and sought to coercively control the reproduction of this group to help the economy stabilize and grow.
Family planning derailed
In its original form, the Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program implemented during Fujimori’s administration via the Health Ministry was regarded by feminist activists as a progressive step toward respecting women’s rights. It aimed to increase access to maternal health services. It also sought to provide women with more information about family planning and access to contraception. This approach — and the very idea that women have reproductive rights — put the government at odds with the Catholic Church, a powerful force in Peru. Seventy-six percent of Peruvians are Catholic; many abide by the Church’s teaching against contraception.
Despite church opposition, the program proceeded. Months into its implementation, however, irregularities manifested. Human rights lawyer Giulia Tamayo León investigated and found program officials had sterilized thousands of women against their will. My research shows that from 1996 to 2001, officials sterilized 272,028 people. The majority were poor, rural, Indigenous, Quechua-speaking women. Many women suffered medical complications and some died.
More:
https://archive.is/20210611203219/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/19/perus-government-forcibly-sterilized-indigenous-women-1996-2001-why/
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