Ex-Honduran President Hernndez Arrested on Drug Charges; U.S. Backed His Narco-State for 8 Years

[Uncle Joe]

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. He's not Honduran now?

Honduran ex-President, surely.

(Yes, it's from the video)

[barbaraann]

2. This is an eye-opening video that I wish everyone would watch.

And here are two views of Honduras, one through a business lens and one through a human lens.

https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/honduras-market-overview

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2021/country-chapters/honduras

In the first link, in December, 2021, our government calls Honduras a democracy with a free market economy and seeks to boost exports from the US to that country.

I miss Jimmy Carter. From Wikipedia:
Upon taking office, Jimmy Carter reoriented U.S. foreign policy towards a new emphasis on human rights, democratic values, nuclear non-proliferation, and global poverty. Carter ended U.S. support for the Somoza regime in Nicaragua and cut back or terminated military aid to Augusto Pinochet of Chile, Ernesto Geisel of Brazil, and Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina, all of whom he criticized for human rights violations. He negotiated the Torrijos–Carter Treaties, which provided for the return of the Panama Canal to Panama in 1999.

[Magoo48]

3. The US backing narco states is not unusual.

[barbaraann]

4. Wikipedia has a list, which includes the UK and the Netherlands!?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narco-state