Calling it US backed is increasingly bullshit as time goes on.
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Honduras is actually closer to the US’s own future than anything.
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Honduras is a US client state, and the US and Honduran right have a history of working together.
Because the US backed Honduran sonvreignty in this case, and it was a court system stacked with party-over-people far right party members that caused the problem. The US stepped in only to make sure the election wasn’t overthrown and the far right party won the election even with martial law. 2009 was the 2016 election for Honduras, and sure enough the party with the campaign promise of “we will lift martial law” didn’t.
You can say the US trained military officers who then used the training to overthrow governments, you can say the US did a shit job setting up the constitution in the 80s, but when it comes to the US not invading Hunduras to bring the progressive candidate back to power - you don’t get to say they backed the legally recognized democratically elected far-right authoritarians.
More interesting than you might think.
When did anyone say anything about the US invading Honduras?
I don’t want US troops going in, I want US troops getting out. Withdraw the troops, close the bases and stop giving guns, money, training and military backup to the oppressors.
I don’t think you know what you want in Honduras. The US troops in Honduras were put in place by Honduran request to help posture against drug trafficking, and the actual training of military in Honduras happened well before the bases were established.
The current problems in Honduras are not because of the US, they are because of partisanship and far-right elites seizing control of a country and stamping out Zelaya. Had the US reinstated Zelaya, they would have been required to take military action against Honduras. Period.
How the right thinks the left is responding to the sacking of Joan Walsh:
How the actual left is responding:
The fictitious omni-liberal is a key part of the partisan right in the US, maybe even moreso than the center-right’s stance of “everyone likes war.”