Unfair Play in Central America

The Washington Post, to its everlasting credit, has weighed in with an editorial condemning the unequal treatment governmental problems in Honduras and Nicaragua have received from other Latin American countries. Problems caused by leftists get ignored while problems caused by rightists bring down the collective wrath of Latin America.

The editorial does a nice job of laying out succinctly what has gone wrong in both countries, and how the other Latin countries responded to each. Very clearly Honduras, which has a strong but generally law-abiding rightist movement, is being treated as a pariah while the over-the-top misdeeds in Nicaragua, which has a leftist government, are being condemned by no one except the U.S.