VivirLatino

Remember how I’ve been talking about my confusion over what role the U.S. is playing in the Honduran coup?

Well, this latest from Bolivia just makes me more confused.

President Evo Morales on Wednesday accused Barack Obama of lying by pledging to change America’s historically heavy-handed relationship with Latin America and then halting $25 million in annual trade benefits for Bolivia.

The U.S. on Tuesday said it is ending the import duty waivers because world’s No. 3 cocaine-producing country is not doing enough to reduce “unconstrained” cultivation of coca.

Morales said the move contradicts Obama’s promise at the Summit of the Americas in April to be a peer rather than an overseer of countries in the region. “President Obama lied to Latin America when he told us in Trinidad and Tobago that there are not senior and junior partners,” he told reporters.

I think that Morales’s words (peer and overseer), really exemplifies what I’ve been struggling with in relation to Honduras. The U.S. has acted as the “overseer” of Latin America very aggressively since the 70′s–but really, even longer than that: since the time of colonization really.

So did the U.S. *really* just give up its overseer position in Honduras? Even as it continues with the whip in Bolivia?