Premieres on December 16, 25 at 6:45 PM

The United States of Hunger is a searing political essay that exposes the contradiction at the heart of the American project: a nation that praises freedom while punishing truth, and that celebrates justice while weaponizing hunger against the vulnerable. Through personal testimony and rigorous political reflection, Samuel Martínez Roque examines how systems built to protect citizens become tools of coercion for immigrants, where reporting abuse results in retaliation, where police defend threats as “protected speech,” and where bureaucracy functions as a modern form of cruelty. This essay exposes hunger as a political instrument, silence as a survival strategy, and truth as an act of rebellion. With unflinching clarity, Martínez Roque reveals how deprivation becomes policy, how the border becomes a stomach that digests the poor, and how liberty becomes a privilege reserved for those whose lives the system values. A philosophical, legal, and deeply human indictment of the American myth, The United States of Hunger asks the question the nation fears most: What kind of freedom is it when your survival depends not on how much English you speak, but on how much truth you can swallow just to be allowed to eat?

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Episode 2: The United States of Hunger (also referred as "The United States of Hunger: A Paradox of American Liberty"), to be released on December 16, 2025, and all accompanying artwork, were written, developed, produced, published, and distributed by Samuel Martínez Roque as part of the series Samuel Martínez Roque vs. The United States of America.

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