Scandal shows Israeli involvement in US push to crush Latin American left

New revelations seem to show Israeli participation in increasing US efforts to crush Latin America’s left and consolidate far-right power in the region.

News outlet Canal Red and Honduran journalists have given the public access at Hondurasgate to audio files and documents that reveal shady dealings by an elite network looking to ensure US dominance in Latin America.

At the centre of the story are the war-criminal US regime of Donald Trump, convicted drug trafficker and far-right ex-president of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández, Argentina’s far-right president Javier Milei, and the genocidal government of Israel.

The new US war on Latin America, with help from Israel and the local far right

Key facts include that:

• Ahead of the 2025 election in Honduras, in which the US regime was clearly meddling, Trump pardoned Hernández (the “kingpin” who was in a US jail serving a 45-year sentence). Israel had paid for his release, and Trump apparently wanted him to regain power in Honduras. Hernández ally Nasry Asfura — the “façade” — won the election.
• Hernández sought to use public money to spread propaganda (in collaboration with the Trump regime) and destabilise left-wing governments across Latin America. In one audio, he advocated the use of violence, saying “if you want to keep people controlled, you need to oppress them“.
• The target would be “the cancer of the left” in Honduras and throughout Latin America. Mexico and Colombia, currently under left-leaning governments, would be key targets.
• The money for destabilisation efforts would come from Honduran public coffers, from Javier Milei’s network, and from Israel. Reactionary International describes the strategy as “the systematic conversion of Latin American states into dependencies of a US-Israeli axis, using money, media, military infrastructure, religion, and organised crime”.
• The reaction to the leaks was tens of thousands of cyberattack attempts in just one day, mainly seeming to originate from the US and Israel.

US imperialism changed strategies, but never went away

The US spent decades during the Cold War fuelling death and destruction in Latin America to get its way. And the elitist far-right alliance behind Donald Trump is seeking to resuscitate that full-on campaign of terror.

There have long been numerous players in US efforts in Latin America, including:

• Honduras, which was a key military hub for US destabilisation. Brutal pro-US regimes led Honduras to have one of the world’s highest murder rates. The US backed a coup there in 2009 when things started to slip away from its control. And the efforts to stop the left in 2025 seemed to follow this pattern too.
• Israel, which has a long record of supporting the far right in Latin America, which has returned the favour. This dynamic stems from the left’s historic support for Palestinian rights and anti-colonial causes more broadly. In particular, Israel has been the most consistent supporter of the US embargo on Cuba.
• Argentina, whose far-right dictatorship in the 1980s secretly got arms from Israel. Now under the self-proclaimed “most Zionist president in the world” Javier Milei, Argentina is the Latin American country with most dual nationals participating in Israel’s genocide.
• The billionaire class, which uses forces like the Atlas Network to push its class war against ordinary people forwards. Far-right figures like Milei and Hernández are very much on board with the mission.

More recently, the Trump regime has been enlisting as many pliant far-right leaders to its cause as possible. And while Iran’s resistance to US-Israeli aggression has diverted Trump’s attention slightly, his war-hungry team are still fully intent on stamping US authority on Latin America.

Resistance in knowledge and action

Trump started 2026 off by following through on regime-change threats against Venezuela. Then he intensified the US stranglehold on Cuba. And amid the Hondurasgate revelations, he has reminded Latin America what he wants:

Imperialism aside, the Trump administration considers Venezuelans who come here to be illegals but a Venezuelans in Venezuela to be Americans.

Got it. https://t.co/8ppaf6FF66

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 13, 2026

Colombia has national elections at the end of May. And Colombian president Gustavo Petro has been openly questioning how right-wing forces may be interfering, especially as the election software from Honduras’s elections comes from the same people handling Colombia’s vote count.

But Trump’s overt and covert attempts to increase US dominance in Latin America are absolutely meeting resistance. And it’s not just from journalists revealing dodgy backroom dealings. It’s also from the ground strategies of the organised left.

CNN, for example, now admits that Cuba has responded to increasing US hostility with:

one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum, meanwhile, has reacted to Hondurasgate by insisting:

As long as we stay close to the People, [the forces trying to destabilise the left] won’t do anything to us…

The billionaire class in charge of the US empire may have drug traffickers and genocidal war criminals on its side. But its victory isn’t inevitable, as long as ordinary people are fully aware of this campaign and willing to take action to oppose it.