Clinton defends her support for overthrowing democratically elected government...

[Human101948]

Clinton told the NY Daily News on Monday that the Honduran government “followed the law” in ousting its president and said, “I think in retrospect we managed a very difficult situation without bloodshed.”

“I didn’t like the way it looked or the way they did it,” she said, “but they had a very strong argument that they had followed the constitution and the legal precedence.”

But at the time, the U.S. embassy in Honduras wrote that “there is no doubt” that what happened was “an illegal and unconstitutional coup.” The Embassy cable also emphasizes that the Honduran “Congress and the judiciary removed Zelaya on the basis of a hasty, ad-hoc, extralegal, secret, 48-hour process” and called their reasons for doing so “mere supposition or ex-post rationalizations of a patently illegal act.”

In the months after the coup, violence and impunity proliferated. The State Department’s own human rights report from the year after the coup cited the following:

Unlawful killings by police and government agents, which the government took some steps to prosecute; arbitrary and summary killings committed by vigilantes and former members of the security forces; harsh prison conditions; violence against detainees; corruption and impunity within the security forces; lengthy pretrial detention and failure to provide due process of law; politicization, corruption, and institutional weakness of the judiciary; corruption in the legislative and executive branches; government restrictions on the recognition of some civil society groups; violence and discrimination against women; child prostitution and abuse; trafficking in persons; discrimination against indigenous communities; violence and discrimination against persons based on sexual orientation; ineffective enforcement of labor laws; and child labor.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/13/3768430/clinton-honduras-coup/

[Merryland]

1. She is SO full of it. n/t

[corkhead]

2. So Hillary, when are we going after Saudia Arabia?

[rhett o rick]

4. Her sights are set on Iran and then Russia. She is tough. nm

[Babel_17]

3. OK, so I'm not beyond being amazed

Bookmarked.

[malokvale77]

5. Without bloodshed?

As is her usual MO, she never considers the aftermath.

[rhett o rick]

6. Richard Perle and the neocons are beside themselves with anticipation.

American Exceptionalism. We can spread "democracy" around the world with H. Clinton. And when the economy for the 99% keeps dropping, we will have lots of people looking for work in the military services.