US Democracy: Honduras Votes, Washington Decides
Newsweek, ever vigilant, reported on the 'Trump's Honduras Gamble' as election results trickled in, framing the democratic exercise through the lens of US foreign policy objectives. The article highlights the potential for 'political disruption' and 'instability' if the 'wrong' candidate wins, completely ignoring how US interventionism itself has been the primary source of disruption in Honduras
for decades. The 2009 coup, for example, which ousted democratically elected Manuel Zelaya, was implicitly (and at times explicitly) supported by the US, paving the way for years of violence and instability that fueled the very migration crisis Trump purportedly wanted to stop. Is it really a 'gamble' for the US, or is it just the Honduran people trying to have a say in their own future, a concept
apparently less appealing to Washington than a compliant government? The 'gamble' isn't about Honduran sovereignty; it's about whether the US can reliably maintain its puppet strings—a nuance the mainstream media consistently omits when discussing 'democracy' in their own backyard.