To intervene or not to intervene?
Steven Kinzer has a new op-ed on Honduras in the Boston Globe that ends with the following condemnation of US policy.
Honduran elites maneuvered to overthrown Manuel Zelaya in a coup. The US worked (maybe not hard-, long, or sincerely- enough) to return Zelaya to power and then sought to turn the page on the crisis with new elections.
The US wasn't willing to intervene more strongly at a time when they feared all of the Northern Triangle was on the verge of exploding?
It should not take a murder like this to focus our attention on the effects of our intervention in Honduras. Now that it has happened, it should make us pause. The lesson is clear: When we interfere in a country’s domestic politics, we often create as much of a mess as we do when we bomb or invade.Maybe it's me but isn't the main criticism against Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration that they didn't intervene more in 2009 Honduras?
Honduran elites maneuvered to overthrown Manuel Zelaya in a coup. The US worked (maybe not hard-, long, or sincerely- enough) to return Zelaya to power and then sought to turn the page on the crisis with new elections.
The US wasn't willing to intervene more strongly at a time when they feared all of the Northern Triangle was on the verge of exploding?
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