{"id":91066,"date":"2019-07-04T16:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=91066"},"modified":"2019-07-04T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:22:24","slug":"ten-years-after-the-us-backed-coup-in-honduras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/07\/04\/ten-years-after-the-us-backed-coup-in-honduras\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Years After The US-Backed Coup in Honduras"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Free Speech TV<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>\n\nGUEST: Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle, member of the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hondurassolidarity.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Honduras Solidarity Network.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BACKGROUND: June 28th marks the tenth anniversary of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/honduras-dictatorship-refugee-crisis-immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US-backed<\/a>&nbsp;coup in Honduras that ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya and unleashed a new chapter of violence in the Central American nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coup was backed by the Obama Administration and especially by then State-Secretary&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freespeech.org\/?s=Hillary+clinton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hillary Clinton<\/a>. Now, a decade later, Hondurans join waves of Central American refugees in fleeing the drug and gang violence that is plaguing their nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the incessant discussion of immigration in the US, few are connecting the dots between the US support of a devastating coup and how its aftermath has generated an exodus northward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-free-speech-tv\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/freespeech.org\/stories\/ten-years-after-the-us-backed-coup-in-honduras\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free Speech TV GUEST: Matt Ginsberg-Jaeckle, member of the&nbsp;Honduras Solidarity Network. BACKGROUND: June 28th marks the tenth anniversary of the&nbsp;US-backed&nbsp;coup in Honduras that ousted democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya and unleashed a new chapter of violence in the Central American nation.&nbsp; The coup was backed by the Obama Administration and especially by then State-Secretary&nbsp;Hillary Clinton. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}