"With Nasry Asfura's election and Trump's backing, Honduras risks returning to its historical role as a US military, political and economic outpost used to project power across Central America. It's smooth sailing these days for the United States and Honduras, the diminutive Central American nation and original banana republic that has just elected a new right-wing president, Nasry Asfura, to the delight of US sociopath-in-chief Donald Trump."
"The gringo leader has even taken credit for Asfura's victory, having threatened to cut off US aid to Honduras in the event that the electoral outcome was not to his liking. Call it democracy at its finest. This past weekend, Trump hosted his friend and fellow businessman Asfura at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where the two committed to jointly combatting drug trafficking and irregular migration."
Nasry Asfura, a right-wing politician, won Honduras's presidency with visible backing from Donald Trump. Trump threatened to cut off US aid if the electoral outcome was unfavorable and took credit for Asfura's victory. Trump hosted Asfura at Mar-a-Lago where both pledged joint efforts against drug trafficking and irregular migration. Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been serving a 45-year US sentence for drug trafficking. The United States has played an outsized role in creating violent conditions that drive Hondurans to migrate. Honduras served as a US imperial military base in the 1980s, with CIA involvement and drug-linked operations.
Read at www.aljazeera.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]