Despite recent State Department aid-cut media show, millions of taxpayer dollars continue to flow into Central American country
The U.S. government’s policy toward the de facto government that now rules Honduras can best be described as two-faced — expressing rhetorical outrage publicly while quietly continuing to prop up the putsch regime economically behind the scenes.
To date, the U.S. government has declined to declare officially that the June 28 overthrow and exiling of democratically elected Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was carried out via a “military” coup d'état — thereby avoiding the invocation of a U.S. law that would mandate a draconian cutoff in U.S. aid to the Honduran government.
However, in its diplomatic dance with terminology, the Department of State, under the leadership of Secretary Hillary Clinton, is telling the media that what happened in Honduras on June 28 was still a coup d'état — absent the military modifier.