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Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 05:37 AM Apr 2016

Honduras: 59 journalists murdered since US-backed coup

Honduras: 59 journalists murdered since US-backed coup

Monday, April 18, 2016

Since the 2009 US-backed coup that removed elected President Manuel Zelaya, 59 journalists have been assassinated in Honduras, with four murdered this year. Last year, 12 journalists were murdered.

In April last year, the Honduras National Congress approved the Journalist Protection Law, which included measures like providing police protection when a journalist receives a threat. The law also planned the creation of a centre monitoring threat follow-ups, although the government has not yet approved the budget.

In four years of former president Profirio Lobo's government, 30 journalists were murdered. In the current government headed by President Juan Orlando Hernandez, 22 journalists have been assassinated in just over two years since he took office. These two post-coup presidencies have been accused of systematic human rights abuses and corruption.

The attorney-general's office has only processed six cases, while only four people have been prosecuted and sent to jail. There has not been any investigation into who ordered these crimes and the motivations behind each one.

https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61568

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Honduras: 59 journalists murdered since US-backed coup (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2016 OP
It should be noted EdwardBernays Apr 2016 #1
Hillary: It was a legal overthrow of a democratic government... Human101948 Apr 2016 #3
"Legal overthrow" - corporate doublespeak TBF Apr 2016 #8
And EdwardBernays Apr 2016 #9
The way I have noticed it works FlatBaroque Apr 2016 #4
Not to forget... ReRe Apr 2016 #11
Right. Thank you. / FlatBaroque Apr 2016 #13
Thanks Hillary! Fast Walker 52 Apr 2016 #2
Hey, Hillary learns extremely well from the master... Herman4747 Apr 2016 #5
Hillary, with.... ReRe Apr 2016 #12
Hillary must be so proud!! Scuba Apr 2016 #6
"We came, We saw, He died." Insert evil laugh here. I'm sure she is. SammyWinstonJack Apr 2016 #15
Thanks for your tireless work Judi. K&R nt TBF Apr 2016 #7
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Apr 2016 #10
59 journalists since 2009... ReRe Apr 2016 #14
 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
3. Hillary: It was a legal overthrow of a democratic government...
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 07:09 AM
Apr 2016

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.”

TBF

(31,921 posts)
8. "Legal overthrow" - corporate doublespeak
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 07:29 AM
Apr 2016

Just because something is legal doesn't mean it should be done. But that is not the way lawyers think. They are taught to look for loopholes to accomplish their goal.

FlatBaroque

(3,160 posts)
4. The way I have noticed it works
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 07:10 AM
Apr 2016

is that for each "venture" she is assigned a handler by her owners. Lanny Davis for Honduras, Sid Blumenthal for Libya.

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
14. 59 journalists since 2009...
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 08:49 AM
Apr 2016

... isn't that a coincidence. Beginning the moment HRC took the helm at the State Dept.

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