Clinton Campaign Denies Her Responsibility for Honduran Coup Outcome

[Judi Lynn]

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Clinton Campaign Denies Her Responsibility for Honduran Coup Outcome
04:17 11.03.2016(updated 05:14 11.03.2016)

The Clinton campaign denies accusations that the former Secretary of State helped blaze a trail for a coup in 2009 that formed the new government of Honduras.

In a recent article, published in The Nation following the death of the Honduran activist Berta Cáceres, journalist Greg Grandin asserted that Clinton enabled a coup which overthrew democratically-elected President Manuel Zelaya.

Hillary Clinton's Director of Hispanic Media, Jorge Silva, on Wednesday dismissed the reports, saying in an email to Latino USA that the candidate "engaged in active diplomacy that resolved a constitutional crisis."

In his article, Grandin cited an inquiry conducted by Robert Naiman, Mark Weisbrot and Alexander Main, following the release of Hillary Clinton's emails by the Department of State in March 2015. The investigations suggest that Clinton played a key role "in undercutting Manuel Zelaya [and] the opposition movement demanding his restoration."

Apparently, Clinton used her power as Secretary of State to cement the position of coup leader Roberto Micheletti. It is further alleged that she deliberately delayed the suspension of US non-humanitarian aid to Honduras, under the excuse that the situation in the country was "still unclear." By doing so, it is claimed, Clinton ensured that Zelaya wouldn't be restored, despite the fact that the coup was officially opposed by the Obama administration and the UN.

More:
http://sptnkne.ws/aPmT

[Wilms]

1. Wonderful to see Hondorus in the headlines!

Uproar Grows Over Hillary's Role in Honduran Coup as Her Campaign Denies Connection

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511464756

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thanks for the link to that excellent thread. Would have missed it without seeing your post. n/t

[Wilms]

3. For you...

[MisterP]

4. but never for the right reasons

[Judi Lynn]

5. Death In Honduras: The Coup, Hillary Clinton And The Killing Of Berta Cáceres

Death In Honduras: The Coup, Hillary Clinton And The Killing Of Berta Cáceres

by Media Lens / March 10th, 2016

On February 28, Hillary Clinton told an audience from the pulpit of a Memphis church: ‘we need more love and kindness in America’. This was something she felt ‘from the bottom of my heart’.

These benevolent sentiments recalled the national ‘purpose’ identified by President George H.W. Bush in 1989, shortly before he flattened Iraq. It was, he said, ‘to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world’. Clinton, of course, meant North America, specifically the United States. But other places in America are short on love and kindness, too. Consider Honduras, for example.

On June 28, 2009, the Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped at gunpoint by masked soldiers and forced into exile. Since the ousting, the country ‘has been descending deeper into a human rights and security abyss’ as the military coup ‘threw open the doors to a huge increase in drug trafficking and violence, and… unleashed a continuing wave of state-sponsored repression’. In 2012, Honduras had a murder rate of 90.4 per 100,000 population, then the highest rate in the world. In 2006, three years before the coup, the murder rate had stood at 46.2 per 100,000.

The years since 2009 have seen ‘an explosive growth in environmentally destructive megaprojects that would displace indigenous communities. Almost 30 percent of the country’s land was earmarked for mining concessions, creating a demand for cheap energy to power future mining operations. To meet this need, the government approved hundreds of dam projects around the country, privatizing rivers, land, and uprooting communities.’ In 2015, Global Witness reported that Honduras was ‘the most dangerous country to be an environmental defender’.

More:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2016/03/death-in-honduras-the-coup-hillary-clinton-and-the-killing-of-berta-caceres/

[kristopher]

7. "30 percent of the country’s land was earmarked for mining"

Let's see.
Means - check
Opportunity - check
Motive - check

[Wilms]

6. Hillary's Role In The Honduras Killing Field

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511466860

[Judi Lynn]

9. I really appreciated seeing this article. Thanks for linking it, for sure. n/t

[flamingdem]

8. After all these years Honduras is getting some attention

and it's great to see how quickly people see what went on there, and what is still going on.