The U.S. has exerted pressure on the government of Honduras to allow a vote in Congress to decide if President Zelaya should be returned to office. This decision marks a remarkable turn for American foreign policy in Latin America and South America – under the Bush administration, the U.S. foreign policy had turned decidedly hawkish, and was suspected of backing a coup against leftist leader Hugo Chavez, along with other types of hostile containment policies against the democratically elected leftist governments in a variety of nation states in Latin and South America in the mid-2000s.
Does this initiative mean that the Obama administration is finally willing to pull U.S. foreign policy in Latin and South America out from the dark shadow of the years when United Fruit dictated the political plans for all the associated banana republics?
What remains to be seen might well be scenes from the remains.
