Latin American Diplomacy Derailed: A Convenient Rift
📰 THE STORY: ABC News reports that Brazil has taken over Mexico's diplomatic protection of Honduran interests in Peru, following a diplomatic fallout between Mexico and Peru. The move aims to maintain consular services for Hondurans after Mexico withdrew its diplomatic staff amid ongoing political tensions with the Peruvian government. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: This
'diplomatic rift' is a convenient cover for the continued destabilization of progressive forces in Latin America. Recall the 2019 coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia, where the Organization of American States (OAS) played a complicit role, echoing its 1954 involvement in the US-backed overthrow of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala. Mexico's leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been a
vocal critic of the Peruvian government that replaced Pedro Castillo in 2022 – a situation many experts and regional leaders, including AMLO and Lula of Brazil, viewed as a soft coup. The current Peruvian government, having violently suppressed protests and imprisoned Castillo, is effectively a US-aligned client state. Double Standard: When governments aligned with US interests face domestic
dissent or consolidate power through controversial means, Western media frames it as 'maintaining stability' or 'upholding democracy.' Yet, when Cuba, Venezuela, or Nicaragua — nations targeted by US sanctions and regime change efforts — take similar actions, it's deemed 'authoritarian repression.' This Peruvian government, which arrested its democratically elected president, is granted legitimacy