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Written by Gavin O’Reilly.
On Monday, the growing international influence of China was again rubberstamped, with the signing of a comprehensive bilateral cooperation deal between Beijing and Honduras, both countries having only established formal relations in the past two months.
Coming only three months after a Chinese-brokered deal established a rapprochement between former Gulf rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia, and a similar deal organised by Russia led to Riyadh restoring ties with Syria, Honduran President Xiomara Castro’s official visit to Beijing is yet another development in the emergence of the new multipolar world.
Going by historical trends related to Honduras and the wider Latin American region, it may also indicate that a Washington-organised coup attempt targeting the country, intended to maintain US hegemony, is on its way.
In 2009, husband of Xiomara Castro and then-President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown and exiled by the Honduran military in a dispute over proposed changes to the country’s constitution relating to the length of Presidential terms.
Investigative website WikiLeaks would later reveal that although the US Embassy in Honduras privately recognised Zelaya’s removal from power as a military coup d’etat, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refused to acknowledge it publicly, which would have resulted in the US being legally mandated to suspend all support for the new post-coup Honduran government of Roberto Michelleti; the reasoning for this being her view of Zelaya as a troublesome Hugo Chávez-style leader, one who wouldn’t comply easily with demands related to Washington’s interests in the region.
Indeed, Honduras had served as a strategic US military outpost during the 1980s, with thousands of US troops stationed in the country for the purpose of providing arms and training to Contra rebels, who were then sent on to wage war against the Sandinista government of neighbouring Nicaragua, previously under the leadership of US-backed Anastasio Somoza until his overthrow in 1979.
This would be part of a Cold War US policy in the region which involved the arming and training of anti-communist groups in order to prevent the Soviet Union gaining a foothold in Latin America; with perhaps the most notorious implementation of this policy being Operation Condor.
A covert CIA programme in the same vein as Operation Cyclone which would play out later in Afghanistan, Operation Condor saw the US throw its support behind numerous military juntas in Latin America in order to maintain regional hegemony, with the most well-known being the 1973 coup d’état which saw General Augusto Pinochet come to power in Chile.
In 1970, the election of Socialist candidate Salvador Allende as President of Chile, and his subsequent nationalisation of the lucrative copper mining and telecommunications industries, would lead to the multinational ITT placing pressure on Washington to oust the Chilean leader from power, with the communications giant holding a 70% stake in Chile’s telecom infrastructure.
In order to protect corporate interests and to maintain Washington’s influence in the region, a violent CIA-backed coup would be launched in Chile on the 11th of September 1973.
Involving the seizure of key sites around the country by the Chilean military, the coup would end with the bombing and seizure of the La Moneda Presidential Palace. Allende, who refused to flee in exile, would die amidst the chaos, his death initially reported as a suicide, though with foul play strongly suspected.
The post-coup junta of Pinochet would see the introduction of neoliberal market reforms which would allow US corporate interests to again take a foothold in Chile, and which endeared him to the subsequent British and US governments of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. His rule, which saw the state-sponsored executions of 3,000 political dissidents and the forcible exiling of 200,000 more, would last until 1990, with the Cold War coming to an end the following year.
The cessation of hostilities between western free market capitalism and eastern communism wouldn’t result in an end to US interference in Latin America however.
As recently as 2020, Operation Gideon, a Bay of Pigs-style coup attempt involving US mercenaries and likely given covert authorisation by the White House, took place in Venezuela in an attempt to remove the government of Nicolás Maduro – like his predecessor Hugo Chávez, a long-time target of the regime-change lobby owing to the pairs nationalisation policies in the oil-rich nation.
Now, with Honduras establishing diplomatic ties with China amidst the new multipolar world, it may only be a matter of time until Tegucigalpa is again subjected to something similar.
brad si leopard ul capturate zilele trecute sa ajunga trofeu in piata rosie la moscova , pentru o comunicare mai buna catre populatie. ar fi o pierdere masiva de incredere sa fie atacat seful muzicienilor si tatal liniilor dintilor de dragon.
they will probably try to do what they have done to chavez: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ih5nzzu0qcc
the dragon and the bear will no longer tolerate the debauched anglozionazi pedovore to mess with the little guys. a new world is born and the natostan war mongering united snakes turd is being flushed in front of all humanity. evil will be crushed or the demon in the washing town sewer will burn the planet to spite us all. either way it is better than tolerating the satanic pedovores of the “west” to continue unhampered in their pillage and plunder of earth. z
amerikan and eu colonies isolated humiliated—petersburg forum occurring now–100+ nations represented–jens sawyer gestapo excluded–now the german economy exposed as fragile declining
do you know who else was defeated by the taliban? except for the us i mean.
the soviets retreated from afghanistan in orderly fashion unlike the u.s military who said fuck it let’s gtfoh.
they couldn’t handle it just, however, shia militias and the army of massoud also fought against the soviets so they have more excuse. this time taliban was kind of alone, however, they have been sustained by iran and pakistan for their own interest.
apparently everything is according to the plan of the global elites…….they want to make china a world power so that their mass experiment (china) can be used to introduce a new world order. nobody cheering for china here would like to live in this entity. suddenly salman the killer of kashogi is a good person just because he is anti-us and kim ding dong is a hero because he has been anti-us for a long time etc…….. it’s just ridiculous now.
i can see a time when all of south america is free of the avarice of us shysters. the continent will then develop very nicely. in 20 years or so us immigrants might be making a return journey. by then america will be either bombed to bits or a hellish medieval shithole of its own making. those who made it that way will of course live somewhere else.
im a honduran lawyer, this gov has made 2 good geopolitical decisions, but is rife with internal feuds and power struggles, almost all domestic decisions have been highly questionable and most of their policies seem half witted. sad thing is, even people who voted for them now want them gone, so there would be support for a coup. her approval rating went from 85% to 37% in a year and half of governing.
china is becoming more and more capitalist so it has nothing to do with cold war here.