Xiomara Castro, the president of Honduras (source of image).Honduras is a paradigmatic case of Latin America's chronic ills. A country that cannot dispense justice on its own, rife with corruption and violence. This week, the government there “denounced” a century-old extradition treaty with Washington, through which some nationals linked to drug trafficking have been prosecuted in the United States, including former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández. The decision could take effect in six months, and was made on the grounds that the Biden administration could use the treaty to attack figures allied with Castro. The specific trigger was a statement of Foggy Bottom's ambassador in Tegucigalpa, who said she was surprised “[after] seeing the [Honduran] Minister of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sitting next to a drug trafficker from Venezuela,” referring undiplomatically to Nicolás Maduro's defense minister.
“These accusations made by the [US] ambassador of practically linking the Minister of Defense [José Manuel Zelaya] and the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with drug trafficking, could be the [first] step for accusing them in order to [a potential extradition]”, said the Honduran foreign minister, who also affirmed that military intelligence had detected a "conspiracy" among a group of officers to carry out a coup d'état, in apparent coordination with the declarations of the US diplomatic representative. A former Honduran prosecutor warned of the consequences of the action taken by Castro, who has spun his country out of the U.S. political orbit—the fact that this political conflict comes after the visit of a high-ranking Miraflores official confirms this. “If we don't create the internal conditions, the problem is that the drug traffickers are going to feel they are enjoying impunity because they are not going to be taken to the United States”, the former prosecutor said, openly acknowledging the country's inability to prosecute criminals at home.
Laura F. Dogu, U.S. Ambassador to Honduras (source).Please don't relativize corruption
So look, the Honduran defense minister is the son of Carlos Zelaya, a congressman who is also the brother of former President Manuel Zelaya, husband of President Xiomara Castro and currently an official adviser to her. There seems to be quite a bit of nepotism here, don't you think? The fact is that yesterday, Saturday, just 72 hours after Tegucigalpa pulled out of the extradition treaty, the defense minister and his congressman father resigned from their posts, after the latter became embroiled in a drug trafficking investigation that arose after his name was mentioned in former President Hernández's trial in the United States last March. The Honduran attorney general sent a delegation to New York to be on the lookout for any nationals mentioned in the hearings, Congressman Carlos Zelaya being one of them along with 35 others. Zelaya acknowledged that he held a meeting with narcos in 2013, after appearing before the Public Prosecutor's Office yesterday. “[I] fell into a trap [and] I assume my apparent responsibility [...] One participates in many meetings where [there is] talk about [...] all kinds of political campaign contributions and that's what the vast majority of politicians do [when meeting] with businessmen [and] investors to be able to make [a career]”, he told the press.
The Honduran Attorney General (source).Zelaya is a cheat who outrageously seeks to relativize that fact, period. He can sell himself as naïve elsewhere. Why he didn't disclosed this encounter honestly, on his own, and not now after being exposed in New York. Next, the timing of Castro's denunciation of the treaty, just as his brother-in-law was about to appear before the Public Prosecutor's Office, is highly suspicious. Carlos Zelaya—who is now serving as secretary of the National Congress—somehow embarrassed his brother, having to defend that he attended the meeting for which he is being investigated “unilaterally”. “That meeting never had the endorsement of [former] President Zelaya, it never had [his] accompaniment, [...] it was a unilateral meeting on my part”, he said, adding that ”[if] tomorrow the U.S. government believes it has enough data or evidence to prosecute me, tomorrow I can present myself to the U.S. justice system". You're dirty man, be quiet. An emergency meeting of the “Libre” (Free) party, founded by former president Zelaya—by the way, deposed in 2009 by a coup d'état—was scheduled for this Sunday.
SourceAnd this is all for our report today. I have referenced the sources dynamically in the text, and remember you can learn how and where to follow the LATAM trail news by reading my work here. Have a nice day.
Muy interesante, no sabía que hive se pudiera ventilar este tipo de noticias,
Aquí hay espacio para todo amigo, gracias por pasar y comentar. Saludos.
The incessant corruption spawned from Foggy Bottom, that has been gradually infiltrated into America over centuries, so infests the world that a cabal - presumably the heirs of the generational corruptors - are today radically deranging populations to facilitate a global coup d'etats across the breadth of nation states in a coordinated psyops campaign, utilizing the full arsenal of means at their disposal. While primarily able to profitably apply psychological manipulation via their propaganda generators, that arsenal includes industrial supply lines, of which food is particularly fundamental to both functionality of persons and potentiates their medical victimization by secondary pharmaceutical manipulation or medical elimination, finance, physical violence and war. Indeed, the world is at war, although most people are not at all aware of the exigency of their condition, deprived of the lens of history by which the present circumstances differ in magnitude from prior conditions. In a sense the world has always been at war, although the Machiavellian manipulators that comprises the bulk of humanities enemies acts of aggression has been pursuing incremental and limited goals heretofore. Today the final push is on to conquer the world, and every evidence indicates humanity is being successfully enslaved via the full panoply of mechanisms employed.
However, the nature of the beast committing the conquest demonstrates it's incompetence to rule, being psychopathic and incapable of functional socialization. It is certain to devolve into internecine squabbling as the pathological needs of the powerful megalomaniacs become freed of their common goal as that is achieved. Sadly, this means that only after the vast majority of people have been enslaved and/or are dead will the scrabble to become The Overlord ensue between the powerful factions incapable of sharing power. Corruptors competent to genocide populations to benefit the cabal are incompetent to thereafter share the power thereby gained, and will devolve into various geographic, industrial, and populist factions openly warring on one another. This will leave opportunities for survival and even felicity available to good people in coherent societies, if they are competent to create communities capable of providing their security, economic development, and accomplish rational political discourse and power.
Ancient prophecies and esoteric sciences agree on the tribulations and successions ongoing and coming. As has always, the survival of the best and brightest is underwritten while the less fit are left with luck on which to gamble. Since what may survive from the present civilization will necessarily require coherence, sound principles and beneficence to society will be the primary evolutionary metric sorting the gene pool. No one without good people covering them will be able to depend on personal wealth and technical means of security for their survival. Folks in communities with the coherence and capacity to effect industry will have better odds of making it through 2050, while them as don't wont.
Family is the foundation of community, and I know you appropriately put family first, my friend. I am encouraged for your future felicity, and the success of your posterity in the coming catastrophes.
Thanks!