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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton’s Memoir Deletions, in Detail
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/28/hillary-clintons-memoir-deletions-detailAs was reported following the assassination of prominent Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres in March, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton erased all references to the 2009 coup in Honduras in the paperback edition of her memoirs, Hard Choices. Her three-page account of the coup in the original hardcover edition, where she admitted to having sanctioned it, was one of several lengthy sections cut from the paperback, published in April 2015 shortly after she had launched her presidential campaign.
A short, inconspicuous statement on the copyright page is the only indication that a limited number of sections amounting to roughly 96 pages had been cut to accommodate a shorter length for this edition. Many of the abridgements consist of narrative and description and are largely trivial, but there are a number of sections that were deleted from the original that also deserve attention.
Colombia
Clintons take on Plan Colombia, a U.S. program furnishing (predominantly military) aid to Colombia to combat both the FARC and ELN rebels as well as drug cartels, and introduced under her husbands administration in 2000, adopts a much more favorable tone in the paperback compared to the original. She begins both versions by praising the initiative as a model for Mexico a highly controversial claim given the sharp rise in extrajudicial killings and the proliferation of paramilitary death squads in Colombia since the program was launched.
The two versions then diverge considerably. In the original, she explains that the program was expanded by Colombian President Álvaro Uribe with strong support from the Bush Administration and acknowledges that new concerns began to arise about human rights abuses, violence against labor organizers, targeted assassinations, and the atrocities of right-wing paramilitary groups. Seeming to place the blame for these atrocities on the Uribe and Bush governments, she then claims to have made the choice to continue Americas bipartisan support for Plan Colombia regardless during her tenure as secretary of state, albeit with an increased emphasis on governance, education and development.
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Hillary Clinton’s Memoir Deletions, in Detail (Original Post)
eridani
May 2016
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dchill
(38,465 posts)1. A Life, Edited.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)2. Air brushing history.
Interesting read.
Think cutting Rousseff out was a bit of prior knowledge?
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)3. So she left in the sniper fire episode? nt
leveymg
(36,418 posts)4. She'll have plenty to write about and lots of spare time to complete the story
Soon.