In late April, the Hondurasgate platform and Spanish outlet Canal Red released audio leaks alleging US and Israel carried out covert machinations in Latin America. One batch claims Israel financed the release from prison of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been serving a 45-year sentence in the US for drug trafficking and other crimes. The leaks claim Hernandez would play a key role in implementing US-Israeli military and economic plans in the region. The name Hondurasgate references Watergate, but the leaks have received little attention from Western corporate media. Possible reasons include a long history of US and Israeli dirty tricks in Latin America and a world accustomed to ongoing abuses. The text also notes Hernandez was pardoned by Donald Trump and that Trump later oversaw an illegal operation targeting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, with Netanyahu praising the US action.
"In late April, the Hondurasgate platform and the Spanish media outlet Canal Red began leaking incriminating audios regarding recent machinations by the United States and Israel in Latin America. One batch of audios, for example, indicates that Israel financed the release from prison of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence in the US for drug trafficking and other transgressions. As per the write-up on the Hondurasgate website, Hernandez will now play a key role in carrying out US-Israeli military and economic designs in the region."
"The name Hondurasgate is, of course, a play on Watergate, the notorious political scandal that rocked Washington in the 1970s and ended the presidency of Richard Nixon. And yet the current scandal has failed to, well, scandalise. The news has been largely ignored by the Western corporate media, although various Spanish-language outlets have reported it. There are a few possible reasons for the lack of interest."
"The first is that the US and its Israeli accomplice have a lengthy history of dirty tricks in Latin America arming right-wing dictators, training death squads in the art of slaughtering peasants, and so forth which renders the Honduras leaks slightly less than shocking. The second, perhaps, is that the world has reached such a distinctly abominable state that nothing really shocks us any more."
"It bears recalling that Hernandez, a convicted felon, was pardoned by US President Donald Trump another convicted felon in December, just one month before Trump oversaw the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on trumped-up narcoterrorism charges. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasted no time in showering congratulations upon the US military for its perfect operation in Caracas. Never mind that it was illegal in every possible way."
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