Thirty-seven recordings, dated from January to April 2026, were jointly released in late April 2026 by Canal Red and the Hondurasgate website, created specifically for this purpose. They reveal a plan by the United States, Israel, and Argentina to facilitate the return to power of former Honduran president and drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández, as well as to launch a major campaign to destabilize the governments of Gustavo Petro in Colombia and Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico.

As a reminder, former President Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in prison in 2024 for drug trafficking, but pardoned in 2025 by Donald Trump (who simultaneously claimed — with utter cynicism — that his policy towards Venezuela was aimed at combating drug trafficking). According to leaked audio recordings, this support was allegedly obtained through the mediation of the Israeli government, in exchange for which the former Honduran president negotiated with President Donald Trump the expansion and establishment of new American military bases in Honduras, the creation of employment and economic development zones, the awarding of preferential contracts to General Electric, and the construction of a massive concentration camp modeled on El Salvador’s CECOT prison upon his return to power.

While significant suspicions of fraud already hung over the Honduran election of December 2025, recent leaks seem to confirm this scenario and also reveal the use of evangelical churches to promote a narrative of “collective amnesia” concerning the crimes of the Hernandez administration, whose regime was, it should be remembered, the heir to a military coup against the left-wing president Manuel Zelaya in 2008.

The audio recordings also reveal that Argentine President Javier Milei allegedly contributed $350,000 to a campaign to spread disinformation against the presidents of Colombia and Mexico. The Israeli government reportedly provided espionage technology, intelligence, and diplomatic support.

In Colombia, the operation was allegedly used to destabilize the regime and strengthen opposition to Gustavo Petro’s government, while in Mexico it was reportedly used both to destabilize President Claudia Sheinbaum and to ensure U.S. control over the country’s strategic resources. To carry out these operations, Donald Trump did not hesitate to rely on several branches of his “reactionary international,” notably Israel and Argentina, to such an extent that the audio recordings describe Buenos Aires as the “logistical epicenter” of the destabilization campaign.

All these revelations follow the criminal kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in January and the tightening blockade of Cuba. It is clear that the United States is indeed seeking to brutally reassert its control over all the countries of Central and South America — its historical colonial sphere of influence — against a backdrop of competition with China. While this neocolonial policy has taken a belligerent turn in the case of Venezuela, it has been part of a broader policy of increasing pressure, interference, and intimidation against all the countries in the region since Trump took office.

There is no doubt that Hondurasgate is just one link in the much larger network of widespread U.S. imperialist interference in Latin America. Even when it doesn’t lead to open war, U.S. policy toward the peoples of the Americas aims at their subjugation, serving the interests of large corporations and the survival of U.S. imperialism more broadly. To counter this, it is essential that all workers and oppressed populations in Latin America and the United States organize themselves on a continental scale against the Cuban blockade and against all imperialist interference in the region, relying on their own strength and not on “left-wing” parties and governments that’s have paved the way, as in Chile, Argentina, and Honduras, for the rise to power of far-right leaders.

Originally published in Révolution Permanente on May 6

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