The coup d’etat in the small Central American nation of Honduras reveals the deep divisions of the area.

The Venezuelan president’s Hugo Chávez leftist followers’ triumphal march provoked the established elites. The instinctive reaction in Honduras was, once again, to give a coup. The frontier area between Honduras and Nicaragua has a suffering history.

In the eighties, the Against, leaning rebels for the USA, were sent to the forest to drop the government Sandinista of Nicaragua. Once in a while, farmers still come across mines in the close green hills to the crossing of the border in El Espino.

It is now seems that the war returned. It is enough to pass the barrier beside Nicaragua, that the travelers run into youths soldiers’ rifles that took control of the border crossings in Honduras.

There are also soldiers in guard along the highway for Tegucigalpa, capital of this small Central American country. The government activist imposed a touch of collecting and it blocked the international television transmissions just after taking the power on June 28.

Once again, a small country is scenery for an ideological conflict that also involves several others. That time, however, they are not the Soviets and the Americans pressing for influence, but the strong men from Latin America.

Men as Chávez, that served as model for leaders of same mentality with the intention of consolidating his own power.

Via: Der Spiegel.