Nayla Taniajura’s Reviews > How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States > Status Update

The medical experimentation of the U.S. empire on Puerto Ricans is, if not exactly, then horrifically near-Holocaust level bioexperimentation.

The U.S. spreads disease and uses curing it as an excuse to enter the country and exert its "influence." Ex: Puerto Rico and hookworm disease

Wonder when the mass sterilization of Puerto Rican women starts...

The U.S. had no business sticking its hands in the Caribbean and Latin America but there they were like a serial predator.

Genocide. The U.S. committed genocide in the Philippines and schools say NOTHING about it.

Using colonized peoples as entertainment so the "mainlanders" are aware of their existence is fucking disgusting.

So the war with Spain was utter BULLSHIT the U.S. practically bought the territories they used to occupy

Teddy Roosevelt SUCKS

Jose Rizal mentioned ahhh

The whole pages on the value of bird shit in the 1800s (???) after the whole "we forcibly removed the people that were here and knew how the land worked bc we're greedy" stage of U.S. history is interesting...maybe you wouldn't have had to export so much bird shit from Peru (not yours!!!) if you could perhaps not be assholes and coexist with people that knew how to farm the land you stole.

The fact that in the 1940s "you were more likely to be colonized than to be Black" if you said you're from the U.S./part of the U.S. is insane. At this time millions were spread out over territories in Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Midway Islands, and Hawaii (wasn't even a state yet). Insane.