This is Maikel Jose Moreno Perez, current Chief Justice of the Venezuelan Supreme Court. The charges against him look bad, unless you read a couple paragraphs down. Both the seizure and sale of a General Motors auto plant and the business with the Venezuelan state-owned oil company involved the nationalization of industries (i.e. socialism). Now did this guy skim some off the top for himself? Probably, but that's not what this is about.
This comes about a year after we made a very Russiagate-like accusation against the entire Maduro government.

In late March, U.S. prosecutors indicted Maduro and over a dozen current and former Venezuelan officials on charges of narco-terrorism and drug smuggling. Maduro, now in his eighth year as Venezuela’s president, for years sought to flood the U.S. with cocaine, prosecutors alleged, seeking to weaken American society and bolster his position and wealth.

I hear echoes of how puppy memes on Facebook from a Russian click-bait farm swung a national election.

Now let's compare this to our approach to Honduras.

In multiple cases, U.S. prosecutors have convicted major drug traffickers based upon evidence of protection money paid to the Honduran President, Juan Orlando Hernandez, including a $1 million payment from notorious kingpin El Chapo.

Honduras is, without a doubt, a narco-state. The Honduran Minister of Investment was convicted for money laundering in 2017. Last September, U.S. officials charged Juan Orlando Hernandez’s cousin, a high-ranking police official accused of protecting multi-ton cocaine shipments. In the following month, the President’s brother, Tony, was convicted in Manhattan federal court for drug trafficking. Tony’s initials, TH, were literally marked on the packages. Juan Orlando Hernandez was an unidentified co-conspirator in his brother’s trial, but U.S. prosecutors haven’t pressed charges against the Honduran President.
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In April, the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of New York indicted the National Federal Police Chief, Juan Carlos Bonilla, “El Tigre.” He allegedly worked on behalf of the President and his brother to protect cocaine shipments and to kill rival drug dealers.

The Honduran government is swimming in mobbed-up corruption and drug money. Yet Trump says this is a "reliable partner" in the fight against organized crime. Some of this corruption Hernandez openly admits to.

In 2015, for example, he admitted that companies linked to a massive multimillion-dollar corruption scandal had in part funded his successful 2013 bid for the presidency. It didn't matter.

Years later, in 2017, Hernández upended a constitutional ban on reelection to run for president again. He eventually declared victory, with the US government's blessing, despite a number of irregularities, including accusations of voter fraud, which prompted calls for new elections.

And if that wasn't enough, the Honduras congress has passed a new criminal code just last month that lowers the sentence for corruption and drug trafficking cases. That's a bold "in your face" move.

OK. So Honduras is corrupt. So America operates with a double-standard. What's new? It's none of our business, amirite?
Nope, you are not right.

This huge amount of U.S. taxpayer money is getting shoved into private sector infrastructure, energy, health care, and telecom projects in Honduras. The same sectors were corruption is the worst, and where the Honduran government completely gutted and privatized in recent years.
Let's look at health care, for example.

The most brazen example was the purchase of seven mobile hospitals for $47 million, at an excess cost of $12.3 million, according to the Association for a More Just Society (Asosiación para una Sociedad más Justa – ASJ), a joint US-Honduran non-governmental organization focused on corruption.

Honduran doctors have repeatedly gone out on strike over the gutting of public health care, all to no avail. Because of that Honduras is uniquely unprepared to deal with a pandemic.

Due to decades of privatization in the health sector, the role of the Ministry of Health and the Honduran Institute of Social Security (IHSS) has drastically diminished. Almost 9 out of 10 people in Honduras are not covered by any type of health insurance and 1.5 million Hondurans (18% of the population of 9.9 million people) don’t have access to health services.
...Other than being a narco-trafficker, JOH is also a corrupt politician responsible for a “multimillion-dollar embezzlement of social security funds”. In this massive fraud, $350 million was stolen from IHSS, the governmental social security institute catering to more than 700,000 beneficiaries of the social security regime and roughly 900,000 beneficiaries of the health regime. The IHSS scam included “overpaying almost $400,000 for 10 ambulances and buying overpriced medicines which were then repeatedly stolen and resold to the IHSS.” JOH admitted that $150,000 of the IHSS money was spent on his election campaign.

And then you wonder why those caravans of refugees that arrive on our southern border all seem to come from Honduras.