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Related: About this forumBerta Cáceres Singled Out Hillary Clinton for Backing Honduran Coup
AMY GOODMAN: Lets go to March 2010. This is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton traveling to meet with the Honduran president, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, whose election was boycotted by opponents of the coup that overthrew Zelaya. She urged Latin American countries to normalize ties with the coup government.SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON: We think that Honduras has taken important and necessary steps that deserve the recognition and the normalization of relations. I have just sent a letter to the Congress of the United States notifying them that we will be restoring aid to Honduras. Other countries in the region say that, you know, they want to wait a while. I dont know what theyre waiting for, but thats their right, to wait.
AMY GOODMAN: That was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsing the coup. What is the trajectory of what happened then to the horror of this past week, the assassination of Berta Cáceres?
GREG GRANDIN: Well, thats just one horror. I mean, hundreds of peasant activists and indigenous activists have been killed. Scores of gay rights activists have been killed. I mean, its justits just a nightmare in Honduras. I mean, theres ways in which the coup regime basically threw up Honduras to transnational pillage. And Berta Cáceres, in that interview, says what was installed after the coup was something like a permanent counterinsurgency on behalf of transnational capital. And that wasthat wouldnt have been possible if it were not for Hillary Clintons normalization of that election, or legitimacy.
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/11/before_her_assassination_berta_caceres_singled
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This is just gross and is not getting the press it deserves.
This, Kissinger, Lybia, etc...I hope that Bernie can overcome the candidate that the system prefers and advocates for.
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Berta Cáceres Singled Out Hillary Clinton for Backing Honduran Coup (Original Post)
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TheDormouse
(1,168 posts)2. Has anyone on MSNBC or CNN mentioned this?
(rhetorical question)
farleftlib
(2,125 posts)3. Hillary on the wrong side of history again
Obama spoke against the coup and Hillary went right ahead and supported it. Many died and are still dying for their support of a democratically elected populist president. Hillary has no conscience. She will always side with the elite. She has blood on her hands with regards to this and she tried to erase her full-throated support from the paperback version of her book. Christ wept.