Fox "News" Latina bannered, on 7 October 2011, "Honduras Led World in Homocides in 2010," and (since Rupert Murdoch's Fox is a Republican front) pretended that this had happened because Latin America was violent -- not because Fox's Republican friends had had their way in policy on Honduras, and had thus caused the Honduran murder-rate to soar.
The actual problem was that the U.S. had a Republican government under nominal "Democratic" leadership, both at the White House and at the State Department (not to mention at Treasury, Justice, and Education). Obama not only gave Rupert Murdoch a nice foil to gin-up his hate-machine; he also gave Murdoch the most politically gifted Republican in the country: Obama, a Republican in "Democratic" clothing.
On 19 January 2012, the AP headlined "Peace Corps Pullout a New Blow to Honduras," and reported that, "The U.S. government's decision to pull out all its Peace Corps volunteers from Honduras for safety reasons is yet another blow to a nation still battered by a coup and recently labeled [by the U.N. as] the world's most deadly country." Three days later, on the 22nd, Frances Robles of the Miami Herald, headlined "Graft, Greed, Mayhem Turn Honduras into Murder Capital of World," and reported the details of a nation where aristocrats were protected by their own private guards, the public were on their own, and all new entrants into the aristocracy were drug traffickers and the soldiers and police who worked for those traffickers. "Everybody has been bought," in this paradise of anarchism, or libertarianism (i.e.: in this aristocratically controlled country).
On 12 February 2012, NPR headlined "Who Rules in Honduras? Coup's Legacy of Violence." The ruling families weren't even noted, much less mentioned, in this supposed news-report on the subject of "Who Rules in Honduras?" However, this story did note that, "Many experts say things got markedly worse after the 2009 coup." (That was a severe understatement.)
Jim DeMint, who has since left the Senate, and recently took over as the head of the far-right Heritage Foundation, got everything he wanted in Honduras, and so did Hillary Clinton's friend Lanny Davis -- the aristocrats' paid hand in the affair, on the "Democratic" side. (The aristocrats had many other agents lobbying their friends on the Republican side.) Honduras's public got only hell. Four days later, on February 16th, Reuters headlined "Honduras Under Fire After Huge Prison Blaze," and reported: "Survivors of a Honduran jailhouse fire that killed more than 350 inmates [some not yet tried, much less convicted], accused guards of leaving prisoners to die trapped inside their cells and even firing on others when they tried to escape."
This was how law operated, in a supremely fascist nation. Dwight Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers had done a similar thing to the Iranians in 1953, and then to the Guatemalans in 1954; Obama now, though passively, did it to the Hondurans. When Ike did it in Iran, who would have guessed at the whirlwind that would result there 26 years later, in 1979? (Ironically, when Ike did it, the mullahs were delighted that the elected Iranian President, Mossadegh, whom they hated, had been overthrown. America now reaps their whirlwind.)
This is the type of hypocritical leadership that has caused the United States to decline in public approval throughout the world under Obama -- ironic after his Nobel Peace Prize awarded within just months of his becoming President. On 13 June 2012, the PewResearch Global Attitudes Project headlined "Global Opinion of Obama Slips, International Policies Faulted," and reported that favorable opinion of the U.S. had sunk during Obama's first term. It declined 7% in Europe, 10% in Muslim countries, 13% in Mexico, and 4% in China. However, it increased 8% in Russia, and 13% in Japan. It went down in eight countries, and up in two, and changed only 2% or less in three nations.
But there is yet a third area in which Hillary Clinton's stay at the State Department was bad, and this one has been, and will be, disastrous:
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