The Scandal of The Century? Hondurasgate Explained | Richard Hames Meets David Adler

Support our work: http://novara.media/support It’s already being called the scandal of the century. In Honduras, a small but vitally important country in Central America, we may have just gotten a glimpse of how a global far-right power operates. It’s a story that allegedly takes in the Presidency of Donald Trump, the government of Israel, a former President of Honduras who was locked away for 45 years and then inexplicably pardoned, a host of his cronies and the US deep state. And the story includes a whole host of more peripheral but familiar characters like Peter Thiel, drug kingpin El Chapo, and the presidents of Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia. It’s being called Hondurasgate. It’s a pyrotechnic story that for all its contingency and allure, fits snugly into the well-worn patterns of imperialist power across Latin America. But how would we know if the allegations – presented on a website with no attribution – are actually true? Should we expect to now just live forever more in a world of endless uncertainty where we encounter claims we can neither disprove nor verify are presented to us in rapid succession? And in what sense does it matter if they are true? To discuss this rapidly developing story, its history, and to hopefully answer some of those questions, is David Adler, co-general coordinator of the Progressive International and an expert in Latin American politics. Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/