The Nation: A Voters' Guide to Hillary Clinton's Policies in Latin America

[amborin]

http://www.thenation.com/article/a-voters-guide-to-hillary-clintons-policies-in-latin-america/

Support for coup regimes, militarization and privatization, trade deals that wreak economic havoc—they reveal the failure of Clintonism.

[think]

1. Recommended. /nt

[HooptieWagon]

2. If a Republican had racked up that record, we'd be screaming bloody murder.

But it's ok if a person claiming to be a Democrat does it?

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Mind boggling, isn't it?

[Skwmom]

3. But she's a Democrat...

[AzDar]

4. K & R

[PufPuf23]

5. Too bad one cannot copy and past from that article to DU.

Last edited Sat Jun 4, 2016, 02:14 PM - Edit history (1)

Regards Colombia and Plan Colombia and the Colombia Free Trade Agreement in the article:

Enacted under Bill Clinton, Plan Colombia provided billions of dollars that militarized a right wing government, facilitated a massive land grab, displaced an average of 300,000 people per year totaling 2.4 million, and allowed the torture, murder, displacement of 1000s of trade unionists, peasants, Afro-Colombians, and environmental activists.

Hillary Clinton campaigned against the Colombian Free Trade agreement in 2008 then changed policy once in office as SOS. While she campaigned against Colombia Free Trade bill, Bill Clinton was paid $800,000 for four speeches in Latin America in support of the Free Trade agreement.

Likewise Hillary Clinton's campaign advisor Mark Penn, while Clinton campaigned against the FTA was telling Colombian officials not to worry because after elected Clinton would change her position.

"When asked about her position Clinton laughed and laughed. "Oh my," she said to a reporter, "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin". After the FTA, 100s of the folks mentioned above were murdered, as of 2015, 105 trade unionists alone.

Not in article:

While Clinton was SOS, the USA contracted for military basing rights in Colombia and there are now 7 military bases on Colombian soil.

The sectors benefiting most from the FTA are fossil fuels, specifically oil and coal. Low cost coal exported from Drummond Coal is flooding the southern and northeastern coal markets putting thousands of union miners and support out of work. Importantly, rather than even a transition phase of natural gas, the cheap coal is extending the life of coal burning power plants. Drummond has been prosecuted for funding paramilitary in Colombia.

[MisterP]

8. to access Nation articles you turn off JavaScript on your browser

[PufPuf23]

11. Thank you. Learn something new every day. eom

[stillwaiting]

7. Bad for Latin America. Bad for the Middle East.

Great for the corporate state! And Wall Street profits.

And, neocon approved.

It's gonna be great I tell you!!

Vote Bernie California!!

Love and kindness indeed...

[SidDithers]

9. Get 'em in while you still can...nt

Sid

[amborin]

13. truth upsets you?

[SidDithers]

14. 12 more days...

Question is, will you have the courage of your convictions, and continue posting anti-Hillary threads after June 16?

Or will you compromise your principles, and go quiet, out of fear of being PPR'd?

Which is more important to you? Posting privileges, or principles?

Sid

[Octafish]

20. Why do you care? Why do you act like a police man?

Hobby? Job?

Either way, strange to see what interests you, never ideas, just being on the side of might and right.

[JEB]

23. Insipid taunting juvenile post. Way to engage with zero principles.

[amborin]

25. I'll support democracy; do you know what that is? what it involves? depends upon?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. Neolib/neocon: Kissin' cousins. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

12. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, amborin.

[trudyco]

15. Quacks like a Republican

and the worst of them, too.

I was researching Argentina. So it used to have a President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. who opposed paying back debt accrued by the country and bought by Paul Singer at bargain basement prices. Then a new right wing president, Mauricio Macri, is Okaying paying back Singer. Worth 4.65 billion dollars. Singer is a Republican backer. Part of Karl Rove's American Crossroads. Apparently Hillary Clinton tried to stop the payment, but she often stages things in public while really backing the opposite in private. Is that the case here? Sure would be nice to know all the Clinton Foundation backers, especially the Canadian ones.

Mauricio Macri, mayor of Buenas Aires gets a new BRT transportation system put in the city in 2011 with help from W. J. Clinton Foundation.
Mauricio Macri, son of a very rich family, President of Argentina in 2015, is in the Panama Papers.

Maybe Hillary really is a good guy here, but based on her actions in the rest of Latin America I find that hard to believe

George Soros and Dan Loeb were also happy wth Macri's election. Maybe they are making a profit like Singer?

[EndElectoral]

16. kick

[senz]

17. It's what we used to hate about Republicans.

Some of us still do.

[pdsimdars]

18. It is ASTOUNDING to me that people onthe left support her. EVERY think you look into that

she has been involved with turns out to be a BIG blunder and mess.

Bernie has remained consistent for over decades. This AM I was listening to his press conference in VT after he won the race to represent VT in the House. The things he said were exactly the things he is saying right now. It is the same speech.

[riderinthestorm]

19. Sadly the people who most need to read this will not nt

[Octafish]

21. Money trumps peace is what the Dulles brothers were all about.

Same for a lot of leaders since then, Buy Partisan like.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511808098

[pmorlan1]

26. You got that right

but even if they did read it they would not be phased by it. They have actually defended her close relationship with Kissinger.

[Cheese Sandwich]

22. Hillary supporters aren't phased by it

[JEB]

24. K&R

The only response from Clinton supporters is empty threats.