Politics in Honduras

Honduras is a mess. I met two French Canadians there, one of them told me that the store on the corner of his block had been robbed at gun point at 1:30 that day. Why is Honduras a mess? Well the last government had the audacity to ask the American companies to pay minimum wage, to follow the local laws concerning working conditions and to pay for things like electricity. So that government got kicked out by a coup d'êtat.  Of course now, due to instability, the American companies are pulling out of the country.  Not only is there lots of violence, but there are very few jobs and everything is very expensive. Nicaragua and El Salvador are 30-40% cheaper. The unemployment rate for university graduates is 30%, for us that would be like having thirty percent of all PHD graduates unemployed.  I have been told the country was way better prior to the American complies moving in. So when you see made in Honduras, know that the article in question is a small piece of a bigger picture that is ripping a country apart.  And if you are Canadian and smug, I am afraid that win't cut it. The fucking conservatives have been cutting funding to projects, though the NGO's belonging to Canadian mines have no trouble getting funding. Because after pillaging, kicking people off the land and hiring people to intimadate ( maimings and deaths do happen) it is always kind to toss a few peas their way in recompense.  I do not fly the Canadian flag. I am not proud of my country. The Canadian mines are a huge factor in this, but by no means the whole story.