{"id":11278,"date":"2015-08-20T08:47:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11278"},"modified":"2015-08-20T08:47:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T13:47:29","slug":"the-honduran-coups-ugly-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11278","title":{"rendered":"The Honduran Coup\u2019s Ugly Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Honduran Coup\u2019s Ugly Aftermath<\/a><\/h3>\n

Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0As Secretary of State in 2009, Hillary Clinton helped a right-wing coup in Honduras remove an elected left-of-center president, setting back the cause of democracy and enabling corrupt and drug-tainted forces to tighten their grip on the poverty-stricken country, as Jonathan Marshall explains.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Imelda Marcos will forever be remembered for her hoard of 3,000 pairs of shoes, an ostentatious symbol of the billions of dollars in spoils she amassed as First Lady of the Philippines. Now shoes are again emerging as a symbol of corruption, this time in Honduras, where prosecutors are investigating\u00a0allegations<\/u><\/a>\u00a0that a former first lady improperly purchased, or never distributed, 42,100 pairs of shoes for the poor, at a cost to the state of $348,000.<\/p>\n

The allegations are just the latest to surface in a wide-ranging corruption investigation that has reenergized grass-roots politics and triggered a nationwide protest movement in Central America\u2019s original \u201cbanana republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Every Friday evening for the past three months, thousands of protesters have marched through the streets of Tegucigalpa and smaller cities,\u00a0carrying torches and signs<\/u><\/a>\u00a0reading \u201cThe corrupt have ripped apart my country\u201d and \u201cEnough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protesters, who\u00a0call themselves<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0oposici\u00f3n indignada<\/em>\u00a0(the outraged opposition), demand that President Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez be held accountable for fraud and graft, which allegedly bled the national health service of more than $200 million to enrich senior officials and\u00a0finance the 2013 election<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a really historic time in Central America,\u201d\u00a0said<\/u><\/a>\u00a0an analyst for the International Crisis Group. \u201cThe question is whether this will really turn into a critical juncture in which society, civil organizations, the private sector and political parties can . . . come together in making the best out of this opportunity [to begin] cleaning up our state institutions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Honduran Coup\u2019s Ugly Aftermath Exclusive:\u00a0As Secretary of State in 2009, Hillary Clinton helped a right-wing coup in Honduras remove an elected left-of-center president, setting back the cause of democracy and enabling corrupt and drug-tainted forces to tighten their grip on the poverty-stricken country, as Jonathan Marshall explains. Imelda Marcos will forever be remembered for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[8305,6963,1769,2321,950,8307,1120,3750,7430,8306,657],"class_list":["post-11278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-central-america","tag-consortium-news","tag-corruption","tag-coup","tag-fraud","tag-graft","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-honduras","tag-jonathan-marshall","tag-juan-orlando-hernandez","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11279,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11278\/revisions\/11279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}