In Honduras two years ago then-President Manuel Zelaya launched an ambitious program to bring government services to mountainous areas inhabited by Tolupan indigenous people. The initiative was funded primarily by foreign donors.
But since Zelaya’s ouster in a coup late June, most foreign donors have cut off aid to Honduras’ de facto government. If the Honduran political crisis continues, the legitimacy of next month’s elections will be called into question.
This would mean that the cessation of foreign aid could continue, leaving many impoverished communities to fend for themselves.
Craig Mauro of Al Jazeera English reports from the village of La Ceibita.
Should the United States cut off aid to governments it considers illegitimate, if ordinary people end up suffering?
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10/25/2009 :: 10:16:49 PM
Juan Doe Says:
Thank you WorldFocus for the oportunity to voice my opion in this important matter.
First, WorldFocus news report is very wrong in reporting the events taken place in Honduras as a coup. Just as it was not a cuop when Gerald Ford replaced Richard Nixon back in the early 70s, due to the impichtment dictated by the US’s supreme court and congress. So, please stand corrected dear WorldFocus. I’m shure your progran editor will take notes in this matter.
As for the wanted to be “Neodictator”, (Like Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Fidel Castro in Cuba}, Manuel Zelaya, undaughtebly under the coaching of these hoodlands,(blood suckers of the poor and murderers of the human spirit of the Latinamerican peaple), He should consider Himself a very lucky fellow. In my opinion, He should have been arrested and trial for treason and as a resolt, probably shot afterwards. And all of it done under the laws of the country.
As for the decision of the US and other countries to denide recognition of the interine president and his cabinet or goverment, that’s just ridiculous. For one, I personally don’t think that the US and any of the European goverments has the right to first, intervine in the politics of any sovern nation. Just as they won’t allow any medling in their own countries internal afairs.
At the end, I think, this is just the very old plan of Fidel Castro, coming out thru the junior “neocomunist” Chavez of Venezuela, to have the whole of Latinoamerica away from the influence and semicontrol of the US. Furthermore the Obama administration, either don’t know or care as to what exactly is going on throuout Latinamrica and somewhat the world, except in Irack, Akfanistan or Midle East. Maybe, and just maybe, He (Obama) will waik-up to what Hillary Clinton and “Hers” US State Department is “Not Doing” in regard to forein afears ie Honduras and the most of Latinamerica. Again I hope it’s not too late when They, at the State Department and the white house Wake-Up since congress is either under some kind of spell or asleep.