Bulletins and News Discussion from March 25th to March 31st, 2024 - Friendship Ended With Taiwan, Now China Is My New Best Friend - COTW: Honduras

This week marks the one year anniversary of Honduras ceasing to recognize Taiwan and instead only recognizing China. Over that time period, China and Honduras have gone through several rounds of negotiating a free trade agreement, with trade expanding. Additionally, they have just signed a $275 million cooperation agreement, providing education infrastructure for Honduras.

The other major news piece relevant to Honduras is the battle against Prospera, a US-based crypto libertarian firm that sought to buy a private island in order to create an ancap paradise, in which Bitcoin would be legal tender. In 2022, Honduras killed the island's special status that made the deal possible, and so Prospera is seeking $11 billion in compensation.

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Ecuador's youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, was assassinated on Saturday, along with municipal network communicator Jairo Loor. Garcia was 27 and was elected last year by the Citizen Revolution, Rafael Correa's party.
Brigitte Garcia was mayor of the municipality of San Vicente, in the province of Manabi. The former presidential candidate for the Citizens' Revolution, Luisa Gonzalez, condemned what she called a political assassination.
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, lamented the death and linked it to drug trafficking, which "wants to bring the state to its knees", and said that he would not be intimidated by these violent acts. The authorities have yet to clarify the motives behind the murder.
- at a certain point if you're a left wing group you've got to raise your own militias in response to this kind of thing right? like im sorry if they're outright killing you why keep up the dem soc pretense? idk seems nuts to me to not have any kind of response than this than tut tutting
  
  at a certain point if you're a left wing group you've got to raise your own militias in response to this kind of thing right?
  I think something like that happrned in Venezuela, with the so called Colectivos, these were not funded by the goverment. Were mostly poor people who owned guns and did vigilate work on their neighborhoods.
  Eventually, they gained a lot of support during the 2002 coup, because they were very loyal to the Hugo Chavez who had been illegally removed from power thanks to corruption inside the Army and Police at the time. And helped the Special Forces and Low-Ranking Soldiers stop the coup.
  The Ecuadorian Police is very corrupt, they already attempted to remove Rafael Correa from power, in a coup attempt backed by the US. The Army is much better, but now that they are fighting the cartels, nothing is really stopping the cartels from corrupting the armed forces.

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