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> Honduras solicited investment in the form of charter cities, where corporations could buy pockets of land and run them however they wanted. Then a more social
by chabes 3y ago
> Honduras solicited investment in the form of charter cities, where corporations could buy pockets of land and run them however they wanted. Then a more socialist government came into power, reversed the law allowing them to exist, and refused to give them their money back.
No mention of democratically elected government being ousted by US-backed coup, or the fact that this single company is asking for a third of the country’s GDP.
On crypto: you seem very confident about your position, yet if you talk to actual people on the ground, you’ll get a different story than you are proposing. Crypto advocates are bragging about this very subject. It started with El Salvador, but goes well beyond one country now.
And for the record… I am not anti-crypto. I have been involved with bitcoin for 9 years.
- acdha 3y agoA “US-backed coup” is a bit misleading: Zelaya refused to follow the law, but the US didn’t back him - they tried to keep it from turning into a war before an election he was excluded from so the Honduran people could settle it democratically. I don’t like the realpolitik in avoiding recognizing his coup attempt as such but that’s not the same as backing him.
- chabes 3y agoThat is the narrative, sure, but is it the reality? Why would it ever be presented otherwise? The US government refuses to follow its own laws.
- ch4s3 3y agoIt isn't "the narrative". The Honduran Supreme Court issues the arrest warrant. There was a congressional investigation that reviewed state department cables and found exactly what the part post is claiming.
- semiquaver 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_constitutional_crisis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Honduran_constitutional... Zelaya was constitutionally barred from re-election.
- chabes 3y agoPost-coup
- semiquaver 3y agoNo, he was term-limited to the single term allowed by the constitution and was running anyway, with a fig-leaf of a referendum for a proposed constitutional convention to retroactively legalize the second term, the timing of which could never have allowed him to legally run for president. This was a “constitutional coup” by the judiciary designed to prevent an illegal second term that was clearly otherwise going to happen. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduran_fourth_ballot_box_referendum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduran_fourth_ballot_box_r...
- acdha 3y ago“Narrative” would be when you use “U.S.-backed coup” to describe a president refusing to leave office legally and the U.S. working to keep him out. There’s valid criticism that the U.S. should have been more aggressive in condemning it as a coup but none of the evidence suggests that the U.S. supported a coup in violation of Honduran law. The State department cables which were leaked show their focus was on preserving aid to people until a new election.