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While the nation is distracted with plans before congress to annex the health care industry, Hillary Clinton’s State Department is quietly continuing the unconscionable assault on tiny Honduras for daring to kick out a budding left-wing dictator.

U.S. State Department staff have recommended that the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya be declared a “military coup,” a U.S. official said on Thursday, a step that could cut off as much as $150 million in U.S. funding to the impoverished Central American nation.

The official, who spoke on condition he not be named, said State Department staff had made such a recommendation to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has yet to make a decision on the matter although one was likely soon.

Washington has already suspended about $18 million aid to Honduras following the June 28 coup and this would be formally cut if the determination is made because of a U.S. law barring aid “to the government of any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup or decree.”

Much of our aid money is a total waste and does little good for those who receive it.  I don’t know about the quality of aid money going to Honduras, but this isn’t about the efficacy of aid in general or even in the particular case of Honduras, as it is not being singled out for reasons of effectiveness. This is about a partnership that has formed between this administration and Latin America’s worst dictatorial thugs, the goal of which is to bully, cajole and intimidate Honduras into returning to power a fellow leftist strong-man.

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