Family of slain activist asks U.S. to cut off aid to Honduras
Source: Bradenton Herald/McClatchey DC
WASHINGTON: The 25-year-old daughter of slain Honduran environmental leader Berta Cáceres traveled 1,800 miles to Washington this week to press the Obama administration for help investigating her mother’s murder.
Bertha Zúniga said she has little faith in her government’s ability to find and hold responsible the people who killed her mother. “The government had an interest in stopping her fight,” Zúniga said. “But they’ve also demonstrated a series of inconsistencies and irregularities in how they’ve gone about their investigation.”
Cáceres, co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (Copinh), had faced death threats from Honduran authorities and private security forces, her family said, because of her fight against the construction of a hydroelectric dam planned along a river that’s sacred to the indigenous Lenca people – a fight for which she won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize last year.
On March 3rd, she was at home in La Esperanza when two men reportedly forced themselves inside and shot her multiple times.
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Far too much American business at stake.
Is President Obama innocent of the events occurring in Honduras, specifically the coup launched by the Honduran military resulting in the abduction and forced deportation of democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya? Obama has denounced the coup and demanded that the rules of democracy be honored. Still, several troubling questions remain.
First, almost all the senior Honduran military officers active in the coup are graduates of the Pentagon's School of the Americas (known to many of us as "School of the Assassins". The Honduran military is trained, advised, equipped, indoctrinated, and financed by the United States national security state. The generals would never have dared to move without tacit consent from the White House or the Pentagon and CIA.
http://www.michaelparenti.org/Honduras.html
