Almost as soon as the communist Chavista party got installed in Honduras, the country immediately started falling apart. The worst of street gangs came out of hiding again, and they started threatening plans to dissolve the best chance Honduras had for pulling its people out of poverty with the new ZEDE districts (Zonas de Empleo y Desarollo Economico).
The first meeting of Congress ended in chaos. The now opposition Partido Nacional (National Party) made deals with some of the new congressmen from the Libre party and they elected one of Libre to be president of Congress who was not the pick of the new president Xiomara Castro.
The new president simply replaced all the “rebellious” members of her party with the alternates (called “suplentes”), illegally by the way. And with that she went ahead and made her choice to be the one to preside in Congress.
Not irony, but obviously hypocrisy, after trying to say Juan Orlando was a dictator. He was wildly popular and lasted 12 years as president.
Now hear this bombshell:
President Juan Orlando extradited a great many drug traffickers to the States.
He finally built a new and much safer replacement, Palmerola, for the old international airport in the capital city of Tegucigalpa. The old one was very difficult to navigate to land, and earned its reputation as one of the 10 most dangerous ariports in the world. Corruption had held it back.
Meantime, the DEA –that’s right, the DEA– was making dozens of flights in and out of the American military base airport located next to the Honduran Palmerola airport, carrying drugs. The DEA told Juan Orlando to let them fly, because the DEA had a number of agents on them.
And Juan Orlando got tired of watching so many planes flying over Honduran airspace loaded with drugs and drug traffickers that he took down two of them. (Shot them down, forced them down, I’m not sure).
So now the DEA was furious. And that’s why they rushed to get charges laid against him with the cooperation of the “narcos” in federal prison in New York that Juan Orlando had sent. His wife now says she warned him to stop sending so many “narcos” off to prison, because it was dangerous. She is a very devout Christian and calls for prayer for him.
By the way, the police official that they sent to lead the team to arrest him was a corrupt one that Juan Orlando had fired.
In the first sessions of court in the U.S.A., the judge was flabbergasted at the vacuity of the SDNY prosecutors’ case. He told the federal lawyers to stop with the hearsay baloney and bring him evidence.
There you have it. The House of the Yanks is crumbling from sin, from corruption, from ineptitude, and God’s judgments.
God bless Juan Orlando, please send up a few prayers for him.
But God help the people who did not appreciate what that good man did for Honduras.
“God is angry with the wicked every day!”