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PatrickforO

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1. So...in 2009 we helped a right wing group in a coup against a left-leaning president in Honduras.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Aug 19, 2015, 08:48 AM

Aug 2015

We've certainly been to THIS rodeo before. The left wing guy was probably a socialist and when the oligarchs in Honduras acted in concert we probably supported the coup because we saw it as being in the best interests of business. Profit over people at home. Profit over people in foreign policy.

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The Honduran Coup’s Ugly Aftermath [View all] Judi Lynn Aug 2015 OP

So...in 2009 we helped a right wing group in a coup against a left-leaning president in Honduras. PatrickforO Aug 2015 #1

Yes. roody Aug 2015 #2

No. Zorro Aug 2015 #5

No. They did not stop to refuel roody Aug 2015 #6

No. They did not stop to refuel Zorro Aug 2015 #8

Soto Cano/Palmerola, hot topic between the US/Zelaya. The US won, of course, Judi Lynn Aug 2015 #9

the new airport is being constructed within the palmerola airbase nt Bacchus4.0 Aug 2015 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author Bacchus4.0 Aug 2015 #11

and will the then Secretary of State act any differently if he has a new title? yurbud Aug 2015 #4

she roody Aug 2015 #7

she yurbud Aug 2015 #12

Regarding drug corruption, filthy elections, from the article: Judi Lynn Aug 2015 #3