HondurasGate leaks further reveal planning and coordination involved with U.S.-led, right-wing aggression across the Americas
“If we have to kill people so we can have peace of mind, we’ll do it.”
“If we have to resort to repression to control the country, we’ll do it.”
(Juan Orlando Hernandez, former U.S. & Canadian-backed Narco-President of Honduras)
Image screenshot from this Washington Monthly article about HondurasGate:
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/05/12/hondurasgate-trump-honduras-juan-orlando-hernandez/
In this recent episode of the Under The Shadow podcast, Michael Fox walks the listener through the HondurasGate leaks: what they are, what they mean, and what are some of the violent and harmful repercussions.
On the morning of April 30, the Spanish website Diario Red and the television channel Canal Red began to release a series of leaked audio recordings between powerful right-wing figures in the Americas. They called it HondurasGate. By May 6, the outlets had released a total of 37 WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram messages.
The leaked messages have been independently verified twice, confirming they are not AI-generated. And you have likely heard little, if nothing, about them in the U.S. and Canadian media.
HondurasGate leaks reveal that a network is pushing to undermine progressive leaders in the region, implicating the U.S., Israel and Argentina, together with right-wing Honduran officials in covert and overt actions aimed at taking down political opponents.
This right-wing, pro-global business, bank and investor onslaught is openly supported, or quietly acquiesced to by Canada and the traditional European allies of the U.S.
Every community-based land-rights-environmental defense struggle that Rights Action supports (mainly in Guatemala and Honduras) is hard and getting harder.