Reply #5: Obama/Clinton are continuing the Bush policy of USAID funding of rightwing groups

[Peace Patriot]

throughout Latin America. These groups are not democratic. Not even close. They gain and keep power by military coups, by suspending constitutions and civil and human rights, and by torturing and murdering union leaders, human rights workers, political leftists, community organizers, peasant farmers and anyone who dares to oppose them, and by looting their countries and toadying to US global corporate predator and war profiteer interests.

John McCain's "International Republican Institute" was funneling $43 million of US taxpayer money to rightwing coup groups in Honduras via the USAID, for instance, and other US taxpayer funds, such as the Hillary Clinton-controlled Millennium fund, were sending comparable millions to these rightwing groups. These same groups overturned the elected government, and rightwing death squads are now hunting down and killing anti-coup activists in Honduras. The USAID funded the rightwing recall election against Hugo Chavez in 2004, by groups who had, just two years before, mounted a rightwing military coup against the elected government. The first act of that coup was to suspend the Constitution, the courts, the National Assembly and all civil rights. Last year, the white separatist groups in Bolivia, who rioted, trashed government and NGO buildings, took over an airport, sabotaged a gas pipeline, and machine-gunned some 30 unarmed peasant farmers, in a bid to secede from the government of Evo Morales--the first indigenous president of Bolivia (a largely indigenous country)--were funded and organized right out of the US embassy, using USAID, Peace Corps, DEA and other funds.

We really need to face the fact that our government does NOT support democracy in Latin America, and is, indeed, extremely hostile to it. Obama/Clinton are even now funneling USAID and other funds to rightwing groups in Honduras' neighbor countries, all of which have recently elected leftist governments, in order to topple those governments in coordination with their strategy in Honduras.

Articles like this one by the BBC--which can be as bad as the Wall Street Urinal and the Miami Hairball, on Latin American issues--are designed to promote the MYTH that the US is promoting democracy in Cuba and other Latin American countries, when nothing could be further from the truth. The US in fact just overturned democracy in Honduras and installed a rightwing government with an election held under martial law, using USAID funds to try to legitimize this brutal government, when all of the reputable election monitoring groups refused to participate. Martial law. At least one hundred dead. Thousands beaten, tear gassed, falsely imprisoned, raped, tortured. Opposition media brutally shut down. Soldiers everywhere. Soldiers 'counting' the ballots! The real president surrounded by the Honduran military at the Brazilian embassy.

And this does not even begin to describe how bad Obama/Clinton policy is in Latin America. They are determined to overturn the leftist democracy movement that has swept the region and seem to be better at it than Bush.