Argentina neighbor news: Honduras

Honduras is just the latest country in which US President trump is heavily weighing in on elections, threatening to withhold money if his presidential choice isn’t elected.

In his transparent determination to dominate the Western Hemisphere , trump is assembling a network of trump-supporting leaders throughout Central and South America, by backing sycophantic candidates, and usually holding out money as either carrot or stick. Brazil, despite his heavy-handed approach, was the big one that got away, but his tactics have worked in the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Argentina, and probably Bolivia. Not to mention his clear intention to determine future leadership in Venezuela.

To be clear, both rightwing candidates for the presidency of Honduras made pilgrimages to bend the knee to trump. As no surprise, trump has chosen to endorse Asfura, whose campaign centered on finances and private investment, whereas his (also rightwing) opponent, Nasralla, focused on the need to end corruption.

Two days before the election, In an echo of his successful off-year legislature election strategy in Argentina, trump threatened voters that, should they not choose his anointed candidate, he would “not throw good money after bad.”

Early election results on Monday showed the two rightwing candidates at 40% each. Shortly thereafter, with no evidence, trump claimed election fraud.

His election interference has earned the name “Donrow Doctrine.”

Quote from Splinter

It therefore begs the question, would it be hypocritical of us to applaud him if he managed to overthrow Maduro?

Was it hypocritical of us to applaud him for bribing Argentina to elect Milei-favoring legislators?

Does the end justify the means?

Is this a case where it would be justified?

Would you still think that if it led to a powerful dictator to the north controlling the western Hemisphere, suppressing all dissent and owning all of South America’s oil, lithium, etc?

Theoretically speaking, of course.

1). The rules of war do forbid the killing of survivors of an attack.

2) there is no declared war.

3) no one has presented any evidence at all, that these guys were actually drug couriers. They were not charged, tried, found guilty, sentenced. Just summarily executed.

A good clue, but no justification for bypassing the legal system that, until now, protected the US Rule of Law. In a court of law, clues are not enough.