In late April, the Hondurasgate platform and the Spanish media outlet Canal Red began leaking incriminating audios regarding recent machinations by the United States and Israel in Latin America.

One batch of audios, for example, indicates that Israel financed the release from prison of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving a 45-year sentence in the US for drug trafficking and other transgressions. As per the write-up on the Hondurasgate website, Hernandez will now play a key role in carrying out US-Israeli military and economic designs in the region.

The name Hondurasgate is, of course, a play on “Watergate,” the notorious political scandal that rocked Washington in the 1970s and ended the presidency of Richard Nixon. And yet the current scandal has failed to, well, scandalise. The news has been largely ignored by the Western corporate media, although various Spanish-language outlets have reported it.

There are a few possible reasons for the lack of interest. The first is that the US and its Israeli accomplice have a lengthy history of dirty tricks in Latin America – arming right-wing dictators, training death squads in the art of slaughtering peasants, and so forth – which renders the Honduras leaks slightly less than shocking.

The second, perhaps, is that the world has reached such a distinctly abominable state that nothing really shocks us any more.

It bears recalling that Hernandez, a convicted felon, was pardoned by US President Donald........

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