The Guardian’s investigation into Central American migration patterns and the fate of those deported from the US to be returned to their countries of origin (13 October) correctly reported that “hundreds of thousands of Hondurans,Guatemalans and Salvadorans flee poverty and violence at home in search of a better life in the US”, but failed to point out Washington’s complicity in the circumstances giving rise to appalling murder rates such as those of the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula where there are 1200 homicides a year.
Six years ago, or the reformist government of President Zelaya held out some hope for the destitute peasant farmers of Honduras until he was toppled in a coup carried out by military officers trained in Georgia at the notorious School of the Americas,with the tacit support of Barack Obama and his then secretary of state, Hilary Clinton, and who were carrying on a long tradition of US intervention and interference in the region.
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Source: theguardian.com