"Honduras is Open for Business"

[Goldstein1984]

From: http://www.narconews.com/Issue67/article4264.html

Following the forcible removal of democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya from office in June 2009, a US nonprofit calling itself The Chamber of the Americas is now looking to Honduras to be a beacon for foreign investment, with help from US government officials with the State Department.

Earlier this month the chamber hosted a “Honduras is Open for Business” breakfast in Denver, Colorado featuring current Honduran President Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo and Hugo Llorens, US ambassador to Honduras, according to Narco News sources.

Domestic policy...
Foreign policy...
War...

Just follow the money.

[EFerrari]

1. Open for business while the murdering of journalists and leftists continues.

Heck of a job.

[Goldstein1984]

2. Makes me want to wipe my ass with

a dollar bill wrapped in an American flag.

[Catherina]

3. +1 Latin America is fighting back. They're going to isolate all regimes

that come about as result of foreign-backed coups.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-26/unasur-pledges-to-isolate-governments-from-coups-fight-drug-trafficking.html

[abq e streeter]

4. Yep, and after reading The Shock Doctrine, I understood more than ever that murder and torture

is exactly HOW they make themselves "open for business". Disgusting is not a nearly strong enough word.

[EFerrari]

6. During the coup that Clinton has called nonviolent,

we got word early from friends on the ground that journalists were being abducted, tortured and dumped out on the highway as a warning.

And after the coup, a company based in Honduras, Harris, got a big fat contract from DoD.

The whole thing was facilitated by the State Department, from beginning to end.

[abq e streeter]

7. "whole thing was facilitated by..." I have no doubt whatsoever that that's true...AGAIN

[WingDinger]

5. lookey here

Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, 1919
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused.

Edward S. Herman
The operative principles dictating U.S. support and hostility in the Third World have been business criteria first, military convenience second, and any humanistic considerations third and thus effectively irrelevant. In fact, they are less than irrelevant -- they are in conflict with the first two criteria, and therefore ... humanizing forces 'threats'.

Adolf Hitler
We stand for the maintenance of private property...We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.

Bertrand Russell
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate

Adam Smith
The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatsoever

[Odin2005]

8. With Obama's tacit approval, no less.

New Boss, same as the Old Boss.

[MisterP]

9. last time Honduras was rendered an investment opportunity,

two-thirds of rural clinics were closed due to a lack of supplies and money (1984) and the people got so cheesed off at being used as a puppet joke/market/Contra camp/cocaine route they burned down an Embassy outbuilding (1988)