The fact that Honduras is the biggest source of the exodus jumped out at me. Thats because, in 2009, the United States government — under President Obama — tacitly supported a military coup that overthrew the democratically elected president of Honduras. Washington has a very close relationship with the Honduran military, which goes back decades, The Guardian noted at the time. During the 1980s, the US used bases in Honduras to train and arm the Contras, Nicaraguan paramilitaries who became known for their atrocities in their war against the Sandinista government in neighbouring Nicaragua. Honduras wasnt paradise under President Manuel Zelaya. Since the coup, however, the country has entered a downward death spiral of drug-related bloodshed and political revenge killings that crashed the economy, brought an end to law, order and civil society, and now has some analysts calling it a failed state along the lines of Somalia and Afghanistan during the 1990s.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 23:01:51 +0000
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