‘Existential Threat to US Interests’: Behind the Latest Coup Attempt in Honduras (youtube.com)
Right wing gaining power in politics there. Honduras was a ‘US colony’ and now they've elected a leader in opposition to US and in favor of national sovereignty. Honduras hosts large US military base. She revoked those venture capital special economic zones. Meetings with Venezuela and Cuba. Presenting some existential threat to US, the interviewee says. There have been US-backed threats to stability in Honduras. Honduran press largely controlled by Right wingers. US has slapped charges of drug trafficking on many high ranking Hondurans, and then Honduras suspended extradition treaty with US (so they don't have to extradite their citizens for US drug charges).
Honduras was a lilypad for coordinating counterinsurgency during Nicaragua and Guatemala civil wars. Has bananas and resources, has cheap textile labor. You can take their resources without really paying them much. Is a neighbor to a country considered to be in stark opposition to US, Nicaragua.
Xiomara Castro toma medidas ante injerencia estadounidense en Honduras | NOTICIAS BÁSICAS LATAM (youtube.com)