#KilledInUSA
Samuel Martínez Roque is a Mexican writer based in El Paso, TX, specializing in poetry, political essays, and narrative prose. His work blends political reflection, personal testimony, and lyrical philosophy, exploring themes of migration, identity, and injustice. His writing spans poetry collections, long-form political and academic essays, and reflective prose pieces that merge personal experience with larger social realities.
Samuel Martínez Roque vs. The United States of America: Political Essays on American Hyprocrisy is a political essay series that confronts the hidden machinery of American hypocrisy through the lived experience of an immigrant victim survivor victim of human trafficking. Written by Samuel Martínez Roque, the series exposes the structural contradictions, bureaucratic cruelty, and systemic injustices he endured in the United States while navigating human trafficking, forced starvation, retaliation, intimidation, and repeated denial of access to justice due to the State's failure to uphold even the most basic principles of due process.
CONTENT WARNING: THIS WORK CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
Killed in USA, Part 2, rips the veil off the machinery of American power, revealing a system that thrives on human suffering. Bureaucracy does not just fail—it weaponizes survival, turning it into evidence against the living while absolving itself of responsibility. Through detailed accounts of coerced labor, withheld wages, threats, and systemic indifference, this section exposes how the State and its institutions profit politically, socially, and morally from death, fear, and exploitation. Survival becomes a liability; injustice is rewarded; and the mechanisms of American governance operate like a scandalous enterprise, protecting themselves while ensuring the vulnerable remain invisible. Far from abstract, this is a brutal indictment of a nation where the administration of death is as clean, calculable, and profitable as filling out a form.