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Embattled Honduran President Has a Friend in Trump
But economic challenges threaten to erode U.S. support.
A visit to the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa
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Hondurans have been in a dark mood lately. Last week, demonstrators set fires at the door of the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa and denounced the IMF. Vandals torched trucks ferrying bananas belonging to Dole Food Company, the enduring emblem of erstwhile gringo imperialism.
It was a snapshot of yet another Latin American country fed up with public officials on the take and the clubby politics that keep them in charge. Like their restive neighbors, Hondurans have thinning patience for governing elites who leverage the rules of democracy to sabotage it.