Why Is Hillary OK With Honduran Death Squads?

[John Poet]

Why Is Hillary OK With Honduran Death Squads?
By William Boardman, Reader Supported News
18 March 16


Honduran assassination has deep American roots if not fingerprints


When a Honduran death squad gunned down internationally-honored environmental activist Berta Caceres, 44, a retired teacher and mother of four, in her home on March 3, the media-filtered world as we know it took note, briefly, expressed some regret, provided little context, and moved on. The outcry from rest of the real world included demands from the UN, more than 20 U.S. Congress members, and hundreds of NGOs for an independent investigation of this political assassination [a 2014 letter from 108 congressmen to Secretary of State John Kerry calling for the U.S. to address human rights abuses in Honduras had little impact]. Now, in response to a similar request, the U.S. has sent FBI agents to help the Honduran government, whose first action was to detain the only witness, Gustavo Castro Soto, himself shot twice in the same attack (and still in Honduran custody two weeks later).

What our media-shielded world mostly did not note is that Honduras is one of the original banana republics, long open to corporate plunder under the protection of the U.S. government. Nor was there much attention to longstanding political corruption in Honduras with its “elected” puppet government and major American military presence. Also omitted generally was how Honduras has served as a main base of American military operations at least since the Reagan administration’s illegal and war-crime saturated war against Nicaragua in the 1980s. Several hundred U.S.Marines are deployed in Honduras with official missions to train Hondurans and fight the war on drugs (similar to the missions of 3,500 Marines in Peru and others elsewhere), consistent with U.S. military expansion in Central America during President Obama’s first term.

But how could any of this be relevant to the assassination of yet another Honduran activist defending human rights, defending the rights of indigenous people, defending the environment, or defending the Honduran majority against military repression? None of the people currently running for president have apparently thought it worth more than a passing comment at most, not even Bernie Sanders, whose vision of an America run by billionaires has long been a grotesque reality in oligarchical Honduras. Pretty much irrelevantly, Sanders did take a glancing swipe at Clinton’s relationship with Honduras (rated “Mostly True” by Politifact) during their March 9 debate:

One of the great human tragedies of recent years is children came from Honduras where there's more violence than in any place in this country, and they came into this country…. And I said welcome these children into this country. Secretary Clinton said, send them back. [This omits Clinton’s lawyerly conditions for expatriation, but accurately characterizes her bottom line: “Send them back.”]

So why are Honduran children fleeing in the first place?

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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35818-why-is-hillary-ok-with-honduran-death-squads

[hereforthevoting]

1. Very confusing

Not sure how America Ferrera is ok with them either considering her parents are from that country.

[reddread]

2. Kissinger

[Betty Karlson]

13. Same name that sprang to my mind.

She is way too close to him - he is a war criminal and she is happy to let him advise her.

Did you catch the AIPAC speech? War war war - she is a one-trick pony on foreign policy, and she learned that trick from Kissinger. As for what kind of ungulate he is: some very sulfurous species probably.

[artislife]

20. I wonder if Haliburton donates to the Clinton Foundation?nt

[tazkcmo]

3. RW smear!!!

All criticism, negative remarks or just remarks that do not cast Sec Clinton in a favorable light have been deemed Right Wing Smears From The GOP Attack Machine. This includes videos of Sec Clinton, quotes from Sec Clinton and any and all actions by Sec Clinton.

You've been warned.











sarcasm

[Betty Karlson]

14. Right, because there is no war any criticim can come from the 70% of voters on Clinton's left:

she always runs to the right, so all attacks on her must come from the people she daily confers with.

[Casandia]

4. My best friend Xiomara is from Honduras

I learned from her how horrible things are.
As for Hillary, maybe we will never know why she supports the coup.... especially if she becomes President.

[reddread]

6. S W E A T S H O P S

[reddread]

5. dissing Sanders for mentioning it?

best moment in the whole circus.
blaming the messenger.

[actslikeacarrot]

7. Simple. Because Hondurans can't vote in our elections. N/T

[John Poet]

8. If Hillary wants to run for President of Honduras....

I probably couldn't support her for that, either, not that I would matter.

I'm guessing she couldn't win there, after supporting the coup. Hondurans seem to know more about Hillary's connection to the coup than do most Americans. They certainly are much more aware of the consequences.

[artislife]

21. Because they suffer

The ones that suffer in this country, don't seem to understand who is actually hurting them.

[chascarrillo]

9. Lots of Honduran-Americans certainly can.

So can many others who have families there, and people who fled from neighboring countries after coups like the one $Hillary supported.

[amborin]

10. and she said to send the children back, to send a message

[reddread]

15. and somebody said Kill the activists

I wonder if she knows who?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Like LBJ and Nixon she's showing she's tough...on something.

[John Poet]

12. She was tough on democracy in Honduras,

when she didn't join the O.A.S. in demanding that the democratically elected president of Honduras be returned to office for the remainder of his term...

[RBInMaine]

16. More radical off the rails Tea-Left propaganda. My goodness.

[tazkcmo]

17. Bless your heart.

More topic avoidance and name calling by the ultra conservative right wing. Fling poo and avoid the subject. Too cute.

[John Poet]

22. I guess he didn't get the memo

about not bumping these threads....

There's always somebody who doesn't get the message...

[John Poet]

18. Yeah, being opposed to seeing a bunch of people murdered

by a coup government which our S.O.S. helped to legitimize, and fund,
is now a "radical off the rails Tea-Left propaganda" kind of idea...

THAT is pretty disgusting propaganda that YOU are pushing here,
and it's straight out of Ronald Reagan's Central American playbook.

What the fuck ever happened to my Democratic party?

Plenty of Democrats opposed Reagan's support of the Nicaraguan contras in the 1980s,
and his support of El Salvador's military-junta government,
and they didn't get called radical 'tea-left propogandists' for it, either.

Unfortunately, HILLARY was NOT ONE of those Democrats,
so I guess her support of the right-wing coup government in Honduras is nothing new.

[slipslidingaway]

19. The censored interview from the other day when Sanders 'walked out' which was not true ...

the middle portion of the interview he mentioned the plight of people in Honduras.

The full portion of that interview was not accepted by the corporate media and moneyed interests, we turn a blind eye to the destruction and pain we cause in other countries.

The cycle of creating a problem, killing and maiming children in other countries, fighting and profiting personally and at the corporate level needs to be exposed and stopped.