mo4ch:>US policy destroyed Honduras, & Honduras’ destruction created an opening for Trump - Max Blumenthal | Mo4ch News

The 2009 US-backed coup in Honduras caused the migration crisis US President Donald Trump has weaponized, creating a situation where “everybody’s making money except the Honduran people,” writer Max Blumenthal tells RT America.Honduran President Orlando Hernandez is “hated by every sector of society,” Blumenthal told RT America’s Rick Sanchez, explaining that the leader - who stands accused by a US court of using $1.5 million in narcotrafficking profits to fund his election, even as Washington allows him to travel freely and funds his regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters - has allowed foreign corporations to pillage Honduras while plunging his own people into poverty.Since the coup that removed Zelaya from power in 2009, Honduras has become one of the most violent countries in the planet. Poverty has doubled, electricity prices have doubled following the industry’s privatization, and the medical industry is currently being privatized - triggering the massive anti-government protest…