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Baobab

(4,667 posts)
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 09:09 PM Apr 2016

WTF? Hillary Clinton STILL trying to spin clearly illegal COUP in Honduras as "legal"!!!

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



"In an extensive interview this week, the editorial board of the NY Daily News grilled Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on her record, including her tenure as Secretary of State. The editorial board asked specifically about the role she played in Honduras, where the military overthrew the democratically-elected president. On June 28, 2009, soldiers raided then-President Manuel Zelaya’s home before dawn, arrested him in his pajamas at gunpoint, and forced him on a plane to Costa Rica.

Since then, the board pointed out, the country has seen a spike in violence and a massive wave of child migration to the United States.

Leaked State Department cables revealed that the U.S. ambassador in Honduras pleaded with Clinton to call what happened in Honduras a military coup, as did members of Congress. But she refused, and worked instead to broker a deal that elected a new government that was much friendlier to multinational corporations and the U.S. military.

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.

Jesse Freeston, a Canadian documentary filmmaker and reporter, told ThinkProgress what he witnessed on the ground in Honduras in the months following the coup. “What I saw was a huge cross-section of Honduran society, the indigenous community, the black community, farmers, the LGBT community, all in the streets protesting every day. And I saw daily teargassing of those protests,” he said. “There were also what appeared to be targeted assassinations.”

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WTF? Hillary Clinton STILL trying to spin clearly illegal COUP in Honduras as "legal"!!! (Original Post) Baobab Apr 2016 OP
kissinger and $hillary had long talks about this one SoLeftIAmRight Apr 2016 #1
Now, Now. Let's keep in mind that Phlem Apr 2016 #2
How did she get this far? Baobab Apr 2016 #3
K&R Dragonfli Apr 2016 #4
In a country that still had a free press farleftlib Apr 2016 #5
Why are they all afraid to say rendition, that's what it was. Downwinder Apr 2016 #6

Phlem

(6,323 posts)
2. Now, Now. Let's keep in mind that
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 09:12 PM
Apr 2016

Henry Kissinger was her mentor.

So yea, she going to keep lying, and lying, and lying........etc.

 

farleftlib

(2,125 posts)
5. In a country that still had a free press
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 11:05 PM
Apr 2016

this would have been a huge scandal. The rest of the world saw it that way. It was a criminal military coup and many people who spoke against it have died and are still dying.

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