http://www.lobelog.com/neocons-stay-silent-on-honduran-human-rights-crackdown/ Personality Blogs Fri, 3 Sep 2010 22:28:30 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.lobelog.com/neocons-stay-silent-on-honduran-human-rights-crackdown/comment-page-1/#comment-79764 Jon Harrison Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:05:28 +0000 http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=298#comment-79764 We certainly don't have a pretty record in Latin America, going back to the early 20th century and including such monstrous behavior as the 1954 coup in Guatemala (in which the CIA toppled a democratic government to benefit of the United Fruit Company). I would like to see a true hands-off policy where Latin America is concerned. Unless a foreign power representing a real threat to the U.S. (as China, for example, is, at least potentially) attempts to establish bases in this hemisphere, I would much prefer that we do nothing but trade with our neighbors to the south. No interventionism, including the benign kind. I would not have troops down there fighting the drug war, as we do now. Leave Latin America be, and let the Latin Americans sort their problems out by themselves. We certainly don’t have a pretty record in Latin America, going back to the early 20th century and including such monstrous behavior as the 1954 coup in Guatemala (in which the CIA toppled a democratic government to benefit of the United Fruit Company). I would like to see a true hands-off policy where Latin America is concerned. Unless a foreign power representing a real threat to the U.S. (as China, for example, is, at least potentially) attempts to establish bases in this hemisphere, I would much prefer that we do nothing but trade with our neighbors to the south. No interventionism, including the benign kind. I would not have troops down there fighting the drug war, as we do now. Leave Latin America be, and let the Latin Americans sort their problems out by themselves.

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