Pressure Mounts on Kerry to Take Action over Honduras
Source: Telesur
A group of 730 leading Latin American experts and scholars have condemned the assassination of Honduran activist Berta Caceres and urged U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to halt aid and support to Honduras until the Central American country improves its atrocious human rights record.
“Despite Honduras’ worsening human rights conditions, the U.S. is providing an aid package to the region, the Alliance for Prosperity in the Northern Triangle,” the signatories said in a statement.
The scholars’ letter calls for U.S. sanctions on Honduras until the murder of Berta Caceres is properly investigated with the assistance of international human rights investigators.
The huge group of academics join a growing list of influential figures putting pressure on Kerry to take action after the killing of Caceres.
Also Thursday, U.S. representatives Hank Johnson and Keith Ellison, alongside 60 other colleagues, wrote to the secretary of state to request his support in combating human rights violations and rampant impunity in Honduras.
Read more: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Pressure-Mounts-on-Kerry-to-Take-Action-over-Honduras-20160317-0052.html
Much of the backstory on these atrocities here, and of the role of former U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in her deliberative support of the coup overthrowing the elected leader of Honduras, which has now led to ongoing murders of activists and supporters of human rights, together with the flood of child refugees into the U. S.
(via Telesur)
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