{"id":1608,"date":"2018-04-27T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2018-04-27T12:23:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:23:01","slug":"analysis-honduras-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/04\/27\/analysis-honduras-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Analysis: Honduras migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text\">\n<p>The large caravan\u00a0of migrants from Honduras has gotten much attention from Trump and Americans. Trump has described this group as criminals here to bring drugs and a group that should not be allowed into our country, however, this description of the group is far from correct.\u00a0 This caravan of people,\u00a0mostly from Honduras, have been fleeing political persecution, corruption, and unrelenting violence after the election of\u00a0President Ju\u00e1n Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez, a conservative U.S. ally. After winning the election, reports of fraud and irregularities surfaced and thousands of Hondurans took to the streets in protest. The government&#8217;s response was ruthless. Huffington post reported, &#8220;The security forces, long marred by <a class=\"bn-clickable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/us-aids-honduran-police-despite-death-squad-fears\"><span class=\"bn-clickable\">reports<\/span><\/a> of extrajudicial killings, kidnapping and extortion, brutally put down the street protests. At least <a class=\"bn-clickable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/Documents\/Countries\/HN\/2017ReportElectionsHRViolations_Honduras_EN.pdf\"><span class=\"bn-clickable\">22 civilians<\/span><\/a> were killed amid the post-election protests.&#8221;\u00a0 However, despite these reports of numerous human right violations, our own government has continued to see Hern\u00e1ndez as one of its closest allies in the region and provided him with millions of dollars in aid to his administration. What&#8217;s ironic\u00a0about this situation is that while Trump continues to denounce this caravan of migrants, he continues to support the very man that is causing these people to flee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The large caravan\u00a0of migrants from Honduras has gotten much attention from Trump and Americans. Trump has described this group as criminals here to bring drugs and a group that should not be allowed into our country, however, this description of the group is far from correct.\u00a0 This caravan of people,\u00a0mostly from Honduras, have been fleeing political persecution, corruption, and unrelenting&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/04\/27\/analysis-honduras-migrants\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}