Honduras, Again

There is no question we are behind the recent coup in Honduras. President Manuel Zelaya is in the U.S. today before he returns to Honduras tomorrow, Thursday, July 2nd. He will not be meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, or President Obama.

Zelaya's return to Honduras did not even make the front page of the New York Times. Most major news organizations and blogs have already back paged the coup. It's only been a day. Why is it that a military coup in a neighbouring country isn't an immediate threat, but the "immediate" threat of cave dwellers in Afghanistan "following our troops home" to commit acts of terrorism, is front page news daily?

Make no mistake about it, this is our coup. Honduras tows the U.S. line in Central America. They are quite literally bought and paid for. The leaders of this coup, and every other coup in the region, were trained on American soil, at the School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

The question is not whether we were behind the coup, but why. Why?
Was it Zelaya's position on nationalizing Honduras' agribusiness? Or calling for an end to the U.S. War on drugs? Hard to say, hard to say.

But this has a more personal feel to it: the democratically elected president of a neighboring country is roused out of bed, in the middle of the night, in his jammies, at gunpoint, and whisked away to a 'neutral' country. Can anyone say Jean-Bertrand Aristide? Didn't Aristide also try to raise the minimum wage? And who is the new envoy to Haiti? You got it, Mr. Bill Clinton. Atrocious.

What happens on July 2nd, 2009, will be a clear indication of the depth of Obama's Corporatism. Not Capitalism, Corporatism.

And this is our backyard.

What's that old adage about making a mess where you sleep? It's getting awfully stinky around here.