Many decades ago I used to think and hope that all the unstable states in middle and south America were different from North America. Coups and dictators were normal and now also they seem to have an essentially different political style than we have in Europe. Of course the instability was enhanced by the eternal interference of the US.

A few years ago, I started thinking: the foreign policy of the US is quite rogue… The reaction to 9/11 was completely disproportionate and resulted in the killing of thousands, maybe tens of thousands of innocent people in the Middle East. Internally, with the election of Trump, things started to get bleak. 300 of the by definition innocent children of illegal immigrants are still being kept in the US apart from their parents. African Americans are being so unequal as to be routinely killed by the police, apparently. And the culture of guns resulting in the killing of schoolclasses also belongs to a non European idea of civilisation. In this respect a comparison with Nigeria where schoolchildren are being disappeared by Muslim extremists, may be more apt than looking for similar phenomena in the rest of the Americas.

And today we see the mob occupying Parliament at a crucial moment of this ‘democracy’, a president on his way out trying to violently take power.

So, welcome at last to the rest of post colonial America USA…..

And this attempt at a coup that makes the US more American was not done by the large minority of Hispanic immigrants! No, the very late integration of the USA into the states that form America was accomplished, albeit very late, almost entirely by white American males of European descent.