The situation in Russia and Ukraine continues to be tense, and the United States has not forgotten to stir up the political situation in some "small transparent" countries.
Not long ago, the results of the election of the new president of the Republic of Honduras in Latin America were released, and the leftist Castro successfully won the election. She has made it clear that if she is elected president, she will immediately "break diplomatic relations" with Taiwan. Now that the time has come to fulfill its promises, don't think about it, the United States is definitely going to start "doing things."
On January 21, during the election of the Pro-Speaker of the Honduran Parliament, 18 deputies who originally belonged to the same Camp as Castro to the Freedom and Reconstruction Party suddenly "defected" and voted for Kallix of the Liberal and Democratic Party, along with 44 pro-American former ruling National Party members.
His teammates suddenly turned against him, who was angry? Lawmakers of the Freedom and Reconstruction Party rushed to the stage screaming and punching and kicking the interim Speaker who was sworn in, and supporters of the new President Castro gathered outside Congress. Looking at this situation, Honduras may be unstable.
Their new leader abruptly invited Tsai Ing-wen to the inauguration, and former President Hernandez also went to Taiwan to "take a turn." When it came time to fulfill our promises, our positions were suddenly erratic, and we didn't know who to believe. But then again, this situation is somewhat familiar.
In November 1970, Al-Ylende was elected President of Chile. Having been exposed to socialist ideas and seen the intellectual gap between the rich and the poor and the contradiction between labor and capital, Allende was inspired to safeguard the interests of the poor people and workers. He was the first president in Latin America to win through election and have socialist leanings.
However, Al-Uniond's path to president is not easy, and he has participated in a total of 4 campaigns. On the third occasion, he made it clear that he would lead Chile in developing "democratic socialism." When U.S. President Washington heard this, he suddenly realized that this person was an old father farting, "domineering" leaks.
Following Cuba's path to socialism, the United States no longer dared to despise Chile. Therefore, they sent the CIA to collect intelligence and spent huge sums of money to incite public opinion and smear Alad in all directions. After he was officially elected president of Chile, the United States launched economic sanctions to put pressure on them.
In 1973, under the "efforts" of the United States, there was a nationwide strike in Chile, a naval mutiny, and a military coup began. Al-Uniond made a final struggle, and after the rebels stormed the presidential palace, he chose to shoot himself.
This kind of routine, the United States is really very skilled. The Arab Spring, the color revolutions, the turmoil in Kazakhstan, everywhere there is the shadow of the United States. They were always very good at instigating coups and then seizing the opportunity to replace the leadership of other countries with pro-American people.
Latin America has always been the backyard of the United States, and their economy and politics are basically subject to the United States. The new president of Honduras, who had announced that he would "break diplomatic relations" with Taiwan, was just about to take office when "traitors" appeared among the deputies of his own camp.
But for Honduras, it is almost impossible to rebel against political independence. Because their economic lifeline has long been choked by the United States.
As a country in the Caribbean, Honduras is famous as the "Banana Nation". At the end of the 19th century, cheap bananas served as an important ration for workers across the United States. Some American fruit companies soon saw business opportunities and moved to Central American countries such as Honduras to develop plantations.
In the name of Honduras, they borrowed money from the United States to expand the banana growing industry. When exporting, the purchase price is depressed and the banana is sold to the United States at a high price. After a set of procedures, Honduras owed a bunch of foreign debt, and the fruit industry was controlled by the United States.
In the 1980s, in order to consolidate his hegemony in the Caribbean, President Reagan of the United States provided some of the products of these countries with the opportunity to enter the US market duty-free, in order to control the export industries of these countries.
The U.S. apparel industry smelled the opportunity, they lobbied the government everywhere, and also obtained a preferential policy of zero tariffs on clothing. In this way, U.S. companies only need to build factories in the Caribbean, use cheap local labor to produce, and then export to the United States to sell, which can greatly increase profits.
In order to prevent these countries from competing for the market of American clothing companies, they only provide low-tech, simple processes and low-wage production links in the local area, so that they will never have the money and technology to produce independently. The most important and profitable design, development and sales links are all in the hands of the United States.
Jamaica was the first Caribbean country to become a "factory" in the United States, and after foreign clothing companies entered here, their small and medium-sized enterprises were basically all squeezed out, and the clothing produced was mainly export-oriented. Their own people became cheap laborers, but they still had to spend money to buy American clothes, and the money was earned for them.
Later, Honduras also began to develop the garment processing industry. Their exports to the United States are increasing, but workers' wages are pitifully low. What is even more frightening is that the clothing industry in these countries has almost been monopolized by American companies.
As we all know, the processing link is basically unable to escape the shadow of "exploitation", and the United States puts this part in other countries and will not "dirty its own hands".
According to statistics, a garment factory worker earns about 56 cents per hour, which is $4.50 a day, which is not enough for even the most basic living expenses. While the United States indirectly squeezes workers, it criticizes and accuses these countries of having no "human rights."
For the development of the factory, they will only clamor from the sidelines, providing some false and meaningless "promises" and "guidelines". Between 1990 and 2012, there were 256 fires in garment factories in Bangladesh and 1,300 workers died.
These factories are basically working for American clothing companies, and they don't have enough firefighting equipment and safety measures. In the face of these tragedies, American companies have a hand: it has nothing to do with me, this is their factory, I have already said that I want contractors to comply with safety standards.
However, in terms of implementation, the United States has turned a blind eye, and even tried to lower the price of products, forcing factories to breathe, and there is no way to take care of worker safety. Even more outrageous is that some U.S. companies have formed a "worker safety coalition" in Bangladesh: to let American brands escape legal liability.
In general, the United States is like a parasite, constantly sucking the blood of these small countries and controlling their labor and raw materials. Honduras, like many other countries, has an economic lifeline in the hands of the United States, workers are squeezed and dare not resist, and it is even more impossible to achieve political independence.
Their position may be erratic, but under the "gaze" of the United States, they are only allowed to be pro-American. Once the road is "crooked," the United States will control the "economic tentacles" and interfere in the politics of other countries, either through economic sanctions or inciting coups and revolutions.
The new president of Honduras just took a stand, and the United States began to climax. Who knows if the "defection" of parliamentarians will be "just the beginning of a good drama", but in the end, it is not tiring to mess with other countries all day long?