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The Tortilla Curtain: War on the Table of the Poor
Author(s) -
PérezÁlvarez Eliseo
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
dialog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1540-6385
pISSN - 0012-2033
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-6385.2009.00498.x
Subject(s) - contradiction , flags register , geopolitics , symbol (formal) , iron curtain , political science , political economy , environmental ethics , sociology , law , cold war , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , politics , operating system
: This essay approaches the concept of borders from a geopolitical perspective, focusing particularly on the dividing curtain between the USA and Mexico. Corn serves not only as Ariadne's thread but also as a symbol of food in general, to be problematized and not taken for granted. The author highlights God's imperative for us to take the side of the poor: to satiate their hunger and quench their thirst. This stands in clear contradiction to the current evil economic system that has reduced food to a weapon of mass destruction, through the simultaneous overproduction of food and hunger.