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‘Hondurasgate,’ the alleged US and Israeli interference plot to destabilize Mexico and other progressive governments

The United States and Israel, with the help of Honduras, are allegedly positioning themselves on the geopolitical chessboard to control spheres of influence in Latin America. The news outlet Diario Red en América Latina and the website Hondurasgate have revealed, in an investigation based on leaked audio recordings, the interventionist intentions of leaders of the global right. One piece of evidence, released at the end of April, claims that former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, pardoned by Donald Trump from his 45-year sentence for drug trafficking — with the support of the Republican president himself, his Argentine counterpart Javier Milei, and the current Honduran administration — are conspiring to create a channel for disseminating fake news with the intention of spreading misinformation and destabilizing the governments of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.

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Juan Orlando Hernández in Washington on March 24, 2018.
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Madrid leader’s tribute to the ‘conquistador’ Hernán Cortés shakes up Mexico City politics

Isabel Díaz Ayuso at the tribute to Hernán Cortés in Mexico City on Monday.

Isabel Díaz Ayuso, a Spanish conservative politician who is the regional premier of Madrid, has landed in Mexico like a meteor, ready to use provocation as her most effective political weapon. Ayuso had been stirring things up for months with remarks about Mexico that have particularly irritated the Mexican left. Speaking from Spain, she had likened Claudia Sheinbaum’s government to the Cuban dictatorship, and defended the Spanish conquest of the Americas as a civilizing process rather than a genocide.

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Alessandra Rojo de la Vega speaks at the event this Monday.
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