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pinkfootthegoose t1_ixswzga wrote

Reply to comment by StoneRivet in Police stepped up their presence on the streets of Honduras Friday after President Xiomara Castro declared a state of emergency to quash a rise in gang activity in the Central American nation by DoremusJessup

the government is the corruption.

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StoneRivet t1_ixsx9h4 wrote

I know, thanks in part to the US. I doubt things will resolve well anytime soon, but I can hope.

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pinkfootthegoose t1_ixsy2wx wrote

thanks in part mostly to themselves.

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StoneRivet t1_iyav8t5 wrote

I know I already replied, but I figured out why this comment bothered me when I read it.

It kind of shows this mentality that a lot of Americans have that other countries have problems because the people refuse to fix them, or because America has such a focus on self-reliance, our assumption is not that outside forces are the reason.

Honduras has tried multiple times to fix it's corruption, and the sad thing is that every goddamned time the US has meddled to place a corrupt asshole in power who is willing to exploit the people for the US' benefit.

If you want to blame western countries who are corrupt for their failings, sure, they have had the ability to mostly carve out their own identity.

But to jump to "nah, it's the people of that countries fault" for a country which has been dominated by much more powerful groups than itself is such a ignorant and extremely dismissive take it's absurd. The US PUT THAT GOVERNMENT IN CHARGE, not the Honduran people, you can't blame the people for their corrupt government when they didn't put that government in place. The most pro-democracy and pro-honduran leader to fight corruption got fucked by the US in 2009, and that is not a new or surprising outcome.

Not saying you are dumb, this isn't an attack on you. This is me pointing out that you are ignorant in this particular topic, and if you want to take offense to that or learn from it is up to you.

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