James M. Hamilton worries about a Central American woman he knows who may try entering the U.S. again via our southern border ("Only change south of the border could slow tide," Opinion Exchange, March 24). Hamilton cites CIA statistics on poverty and murder rates, attributing both to deficient education of the citizens of this hellhole. If only the unruly rabble of Central America would get educated, they'd learn where to find the magic bootstraps to yank themselves out of abject chaos. Curiously, Hamilton avoids naming the Central American country, but gives adequate clues — "a broken nation presided over by a reported narco-president, a nation of more than 9 million people in an area slightly larger than Tennessee" — for a person to deduce he's talking about Honduras. Perhaps he's coy about naming the country because the proximate cause of Honduras' chaos is the U.S.-approved coup removing democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya from office in 2009 — a coup that also dared not speak its own name, because calling it thus would have legally required the U.S. to terminate all foreign aid. So, President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn't want to utter the word. Wouldn't want to annoy the oligarchs. Hamilton claims that "nothing else will end the flow" of refugees except change south of the border. What's actually required is change north of the border. Eliminate the regime-change thugs in Washington, D.C., and we'll be halfway there.