U.S. Meddling in Honduran Elections: A Noble Tradition
Former Honduran presidential candidate Salvador Nasralla claims Donald Trump and his ambassador intervened to cost him the 2017 election, according to The Hill. While Nasralla names Trump, he conveniently sidesteps the half-century playbook of U.S. meddling in Central American democracies. From orchestrating coups in Guatemala (1954) to propping up dictators in Nicaragua and El Salvador, Uncle
Sam's 'fair elections' dogma often ends where U.S. corporate interests begin. One might wonder when “interference” became a dirty word to U.S. policymakers, rather than standard operating procedure. Was it only when Russia did it? Or is it simply a matter of who's doing the interfering, and whose interests are being 'protected'? The hypocrisy is so thick, you could spread it on a stack of seized
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