where american influence spreads, coups and murders invariably follow (the kind of coup d'etat that flows not from the necessity of national interest of the victim country but from the imperative of american interests as envisioned by cynical american spies and diplomats - and surely the two terms are synonymous in any part of the world where they are allowed in, and where american spies aren't allowed to operate, american diplomats would just double as spies)
from today's nyt column:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/in-honduras-a-mess-helped-by-the-us.html?_r=1&hp
"In Honduras, a Mess Made in the U.S.
By DANA FRANK
Published: January 26, 2012
ITS time to acknowledge the foreign policy disaster that American support for the Porfirio Lobo administration in Honduras has become. Ever since the June 28, 2009, coup that deposed Hondurass democratically elected president, José Manuel Zelaya, the country has been descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss. That abyss is in good part the State Departments making.
The headlines have been full of horror stories about Honduras. According to the United Nations, it now has the worlds highest murder rate, and San Pedro Sula, its second city, is more dangerous than Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a center for drug cartel violence.
Much of the press in the United States has attributed this violence solely to drug trafficking and gangs. But the coup was what threw open the doors to a huge increase in drug trafficking and violence, and it unleashed a continuing wave of state-sponsored repression.
The current government of President Lobo won power in a November 2009 election managed by the same figures who had initiated the coup. Most opposition candidates withdrew in protest, and all major international observers boycotted the election, except for the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute, which are financed by the United States.
President Obama quickly recognized Mr. Lobos victory, even when most of Latin America would not. Mr. Lobos government is, in fact, a child of the coup. It retains most of the military figures who perpetrated the coup, and no one has gone to jail for starting it....
in early October, Mr. Obama praised Mr. Lobo at the White House for leadership in a restoration of democratic practices. Since the coup the United States has maintained and in some areas increased military and police financing for Honduras and has been enlarging its military bases there, according to an analysis by the Fellowship of Reconciliation. ...
we need to respect proposals for alternative approaches that Honduran human-rights advocates and the opposition are beginning to formulate. These come from people who are still fighting against the coup and who continue to risk paying the price of being shot dead by state security forces.
They, not the State Department, have the right to lead their country forward. "
such is the bitter and bloody fruit of monroe doctrine in the americas and american hegemony around the world
investigating National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute seems to be about one of the things the military government in egypt has actually done right, given the poisonous effect the two twin american intelligence organizations have on other countries and the amount of blood they - and obamaese diplomacy - have on their hands
