A Chill Wind From the North: the US Returns to Latin America

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7. Honduras allowed this wave as much as any natural or sabotaged economic or political

shifts: the Latin American right wing has been continentwide since the Condor and Charly operations, and while there's plenty of national xenophobia and local factors at play, Clinton and Obama's greenlighting of Zelaya's ouster strengthened the antidemocratic RW to unprecedented proportions: now it had much more resources to build its "constituency" with: one Chamber of Commerce had stepped from "shadow government" to "government" and faxed the others the go-ahead, producing attempts in Ecuador and Colombia and successes in Paraguay, Argentina, Venezuela, and now Brazil

of course if there's one thing the rising forces hate more than the left it's the other groups fighting the left: they haven't properly governed for decades, experienced only in flying off with the country's money, buying branches of the police, getting kidnapped by RW paramilitaries that blame Moscow, blaming Moscow, and machine-gunning each other's lawyers: they only unite against presidents expanding the franchise beyond the political class's turno or when everyone rebels at once and they panickedly hope the army shoots the commoners rather than the elites when they call on them