An Open Letter to Barack Obama: Mr. President, You Are Abetting Murder in Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

September 19, 2012




An Open Letter to Barack Obama

Mr. President, You Are Abetting Murder in Honduras

by ANDY THAYER

Dear President Obama:

Put simply, your support of the coup regime in Honduras is killing people. During a recent fact-finding tour of Honduras organized by the Chicago-based La Voz de los de Abajo, I was part of a delegation that spoke to dozens of people in several areas of the country who had lost friends, colleagues and loved ones due to the violence of Honduran government forces whom you support, and the private death squads associated with them.

The murder rate in Honduras now leads the world. Depending on how you count it, it is the second or third poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Over and over again, the stories we heard were very similar. The government doesn’t respect its own laws, the judges are bought and sold by the few who can afford them, and all this is done to increase the power and wealth of that country’s 1%. And your administration makes it worse by supporting this with guns and more guns.

Besides the many witnesses we interviewed, last Thursday afternoon we personally witnessed a small taste of what the Honduran people routinely endure.

While speaking with witnesses to a combined police/military/private security assault in the city of Tocoa on September 9th that killed an elderly man, Mr. Hector Navarro, we were threatened by five gunmen guarding property claimed by one Miguel Facusse, the country’s wealthiest person and largest landowner. Nine of us on the La Voz delegation, plus Mr. Heriberto Aleman of The Permanent Human Rights Observatory of the Aguan, witnessed what followed.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/09/19/mr-president-you-are-abetting-murder-in-honduras/

[BlueToTheBone]

1. Thanks again Judi Lynn for keeping us informed

about the lives of our southern neighbors.

I'm so tired of us siding with dictators. Are they (our leaders) so obtuse they can't recognize good from evil?

[Judi Lynn]

2. BlueToTheBone, it's only right we find out now what our "news" media has refused to acknowledge

ALL these long years, as they worked hand-in-glove with the propagandists to keep us all completely unaware of what our government, working with their facist oligarchs, was doing to Latin Americans, behind the backs of the masses here AND there.

[BlueToTheBone]

4. Happy Day! Edwin Wilson is dead!

Where's Singlaub?

[Judi Lynn]

5. He definitely outstayed his welcome, didn't he?

Too bad he didn't leave long, long ago, and take Singlaub with him for company.

The world would have been so much better off had they never lived.

[BlueToTheBone]

7. That is so true. You could always tell where the next

"uprising" was going to be by tracking their movements.

I think that Hell will have a hay day with them for sure!

[DollarBillHines]

3. Americans have absolutely NO idea what a corrupt mess Honduras is.

One of our non-profits was, until recently, working with a few Guilds of Honduran artists, craftspeople and artisans.

On the plane, pretty much everyone except us and the crew were Medecins Sans Frontieres and crazy-fundie missionaries.

Honduras kicked us out (denied entry) in the Summer of 2011. We were giving the money directly to the people and the Gov (if that's what you want to call it, as there is no governing, only tyranny and oppression) wouldn't stand for it.

I'll just bet the fundies are still there.

The US has been screwing around in Honduras for at least six decades.

I admire your persistence on what's going on down South, Judi Lynn.

[Judi Lynn]

6. For sure, the Fundies are most likely still there for good! You must recall bloody Efrain Rios Montt

who ordered massacres of entire Mayan villages in Guatemala, friend of Reagan, and the "Reverends" Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, was himself a Fundie preacher.

The Honduran government didn't want anyone actually helping the people? Not a bit surprised. We know they most certainly aren't going to help them, either, although we know they will always collect their taxes from them, no matter how poor they are,

Wonder how many decades it will be again before the people will ever be able to elect another good President. There will undoubtedly be so many people murdered by these criminals in office before that will ever happen. There's no one who can stop them.

The people actually expected things were going to get better when they elected Zelaya. They had no idea they were going to see things go really bad before he had enough time to bring the changes which would last.

Makes us so sick to know our own government has always stood behind the abuse of Latin American people for profit and power. It doesn't line up with all the baloney we were taught as children, does it?