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Historically, Honduras has been dependent on United States economic support, but Hernandez may be overestimating current US enthusiasm for pumping money into a demonstrably corrupt environment.

The United States’ economic support has significantly facilitated Honduras’ process of militarization, and US political figures are growing concerned. The Pentagon’s contract spending in Honduras tripled during the past decade, and a huge jump in Fiscal Year 2011 lifted the spending to $53.8 million — up 71 percent from the previous year’s budget. Several American politicians vigorously criticized this massive increase.

In 2011, a US congressional representative, Howard L. Berman, writing to then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, called on “governments that assist the Honduran police…as well as US taxpayers, to evaluate immediately United States assistance to ensure that we are not, in fact, feeding a beast.”

Similar concerns were voiced in 2012, when US representative Jan Schakowsky, a Democrat from Illinois, rallied 94 congressmen to urge Secretary of State Clinton “to suspend US assistance to the military and police (of Honduras), due to the lack of mechanisms in place to ensure security forces are held accountable for abuses.”

The amount of US foreign aid that Honduras receives greatly affects its ability to implement new social defense strategies. Without it President Hernandez’s plan to militarize public security might falter.

are there daily street protests in Honduras with people getting beaten and shot by gov security and paramilitaries that would merit some more attention?

It shows that the government, after all this time, had the equipment and personnel to actually clear the streets of crime and oust all the thugs and gangs out of the prisons, but instead they decided to use all of that disposal to repress protests that consist of people from all ages.

Also, Little Latin Lynn seems to have completely forgotten about Plan Patria Segura: http://www.vtv.gob.ve/articulos/2013/09/24/plan-patria-segura-es-una-muestra-de-cooperacion-entre-la-fanb-y-el-pueblo-organizado-5472.html You know, that "plan" that supposedly was going to be about making streets safe through the use of military personnel? So when it's concerning the use of military force to bring security for a country, it's totally despicable when a right-wing government does it, but when a leftist government (if you can even call it that) does it, then it's totally "justified". Chavistas all seem to share one thing in common, and that seems to be their blatant hypocrisy.

who get savagely beaten, tortured, shot to death, bludgeoned to death, people picked off the streets by death squads in cars without tags, terrorized relentlessly in Venezuela?

Only by the right-wing P.O.S.'s.

Just like in Honduras, only in Honduras, they work for the government.

You can attract the attention of those who don't bother to learn, but everyone else knew better long ago.