US to suspend visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says

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12. That - and a clear left-right scale as well

Make no mistake: Little Narco's greasy (and rather limp) hands were all over that list.

Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay and Peru - with overwhelmingly mestizo (dark-skinned) populations - were left off the list.

But Uruguay - which displaced Canada as the "whitest" country in the Americas some two decades ago already - is on the list.

Why? Because the former all have, or will now have, right-leaning administrations (or, like El Salvador or Peru - RW dictatorships outright).

But Uruguay - which arguably has Latin America's best-functioning democracy (and second only to Canada in the hemisphere, thanks to Snoozalini) - has a center-left president (Yamandú Orsi - a protegé of the renowned Pepe Mujica).

Well-educated Uruguay also has the lowest standardized poverty rate in the region - and is rarely the source of any "illegal" immigration at all (most Uruguayan emigrants move - legally - to neighboring Argentina, if at all).

But several of the countries on that "ok" list are major sources of undocumented immigration - and are likely to be for years to come, given their socio-economic situations.

But, of course, that's not what really concerns Little Narco at all - himself the child of refugee migrants (an "anchor baby," as our GOP friends like to put it).

He thinks he's "sticking it to the left" with this list (ha!). That's all that matters to Alice Wainwright Park's most famous alum.