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Honduras: 59 journalists murdered since US-backed coup
Monday, April 18, 2016
Since the 2009 US-backed coup that removed elected President Manuel Zelaya, 59 journalists have been assassinated in Honduras, with four murdered this year. Last year, 12 journalists were murdered.
In April last year, the Honduras National Congress approved the Journalist Protection Law, which included measures like providing police protection when a journalist receives a threat. The law also planned the creation of a centre monitoring threat follow-ups, although the government has not yet approved the budget.
In four years of former president Profirio Lobo's government, 30 journalists were murdered. In the current government headed by President Juan Orlando Hernandez, 22 journalists have been assassinated in just over two years since he took office. These two post-coup presidencies have been accused of systematic human rights abuses and corruption.
The attorney-general's office has only processed six cases, while only four people have been prosecuted and sent to jail. There has not been any investigation into who ordered these crimes and the motivations behind each one.
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61568
(Short article, no more at link.)
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)That the coup was organized and sustained by right-wing business interests who happened to be in tight with the Clinton's lawyer/confidant Laney Davis, who is also a... Wait for it... Lobbyist.
http://www.salon.com/2015/06/08/exclusive_hillary_clinton_sold_out_honduras_lanny_davis_corporate_cash_and_the_real_story_about_the_death_of_a_latin_america_democracy/
https://theintercept.com/2015/07/06/clinton-honduras-coup/
Human101948
(3,457 posts)Clinton told the NY Daily News on Monday that the Honduran government followed the law in ousting its president and said, I think in retrospect we managed a very difficult situation without bloodshed.
I didnt like the way it looked or the way they did it, she said, but they had a very strong argument that they had followed the constitution and the legal precedence.
But at the time, the U.S. embassy in Honduras wrote that there is no doubt that what happened was an illegal and unconstitutional coup. The Embassy cable also emphasizes that the Honduran Congress and the judiciary removed Zelaya on the basis of a hasty, ad-hoc, extralegal, secret, 48-hour process and called their reasons for doing so mere supposition or ex-post rationalizations of a patently illegal act.
TBF
(32,056 posts)Just because something is legal doesn't mean it should be done. But that is not the way lawyers think. They are taught to look for loopholes to accomplish their goal.
EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)The rest of the world called it a coup from day one.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)is that for each "venture" she is assigned a handler by her owners. Lanny Davis for Honduras, Sid Blumenthal for Libya.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... John Podesta for Saudi Arabia.
FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Herman4747
(1,825 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)... her mentor, Herr Kissinger, probably our oldest living war criminal.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)TBF
(32,056 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,355 posts)Thanks for the thread, Judi Lynn.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... isn't that a coincidence. Beginning the moment HRC took the helm at the State Dept.