It’s smooth sailing these days for the United States and Honduras, the diminutive Central American nation and original “banana republic” that has just elected a new right-wing president, Nasry Asfura, to the delight of US sociopath-in-chief Donald Trump.

The gringo leader has even taken credit for Asfura’s victory, having threatened to cut off US aid to Honduras in the event that the electoral outcome was not to his liking.

Call it democracy at its finest.

This past weekend, Trump hosted his “friend” and fellow businessman Asfura at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where the two committed to jointly combatting drug trafficking and irregular migration.

The pact might have been a tad less hypocritical had Trump not just pardoned former right-wing Honduran President and Asfura ally Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US for – what else? – drug trafficking.

Then, of course, there is the fact that the US has played an outsize role in creating the violent conditions that cause mass migration from Honduras in the first place. But surely it’s nothing that can’t be solved by more business as usual.

Indeed, it seems the winds are just right for the resurgence of the “USS Honduras” – the endearing nickname that was bestowed on the country in the 1980s on account of its outstanding service as an imperial military base from which........

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