Honduras is suffering. It has become a textbook example of
how globalisation is a form of imperialism in which the market subjugates the
people, strapping them with massive debt for infrastructure projects they don't
benefit from. From corrupt business deals to the NGO's and old stand by's like
USAID and the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to the ways in which Wall
Street can manipulate the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the
imperial hydra is bleeding the nation dry.
The nation is rife with corruption and yet the US-backed regime
has little fear of repercussion. Since the 2009 coup, the nation has slipped
into authoritarianism and while the Western Mainstream screams about Khashoggi,
journalists and activists are regularly murdered in nations like Honduras. And
all too often the killers are part of death squads connected to the Pentagon or
American intelligence agencies.
The country is being pillaged and pushed to the point of
destruction. As a result many of these broken and desperate people head north
hoping to find security and perhaps some financial stability in the United
States. These migrants are effectively refugees from an imperialism emanating
from both centres of American power, Washington and Wall Street.
Washington has bolstered the Honduran military and police...
in the name of the drug war of course... and yet the civilian population is
suffering as a result. Honduras remains mired in violence that is rooted in
decades of US policy (dominated by familiar names like Zoellick, Negroponte,
and Gen. John Kelly) but has been particularly amplified in light of the 2009
coup.
It's a story of big business, Honduran elites with American
connections, corruption, secret airstrips, death squads, American, Israeli and
Colombian special forces and mercenaries, organised crime and of course drugs,
drugs, drugs. It's where the money is at and don't think for a moment that the
cartels aren't involved with the politics and vice versa. And in a market in
which drugs become currency, the US does not hesitate to facilitate the traffic
in order to finance allies. Such claims are deemed controversial but by now
they should be mundane. The record is clear and the witnesses and testimonials
of investigators are vast.
The situation has bred chaos and the homicide rates are some
of the worst in the world. People are desperate. Living in fear many are
struggling to meet basic needs. And so they head north.
And yet when they arrive at the US border they are met with
hostility and are hated by large sectors of the US public. It's a double
outrage.
This 25 minute video is only the tip of the iceberg.
And it must be remembered this is a bipartisan project. The
coup was in some capacity a project either orchestrated or ratified by Obama's
State Department under Hillary Clinton. And Trump has only escalated the
tensions in Latin America as well the situation at the US border.
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