Hillary Is Being Misleading About Her Role in the Honduras Coup

[Judi Lynn]

Hillary Is Being Misleading About Her Role in the Honduras Coup

The U.S., under Clinton's leadership, helped overthrow Honduras' elected government. Today the country is in chaos.

By Ben Norton / Salon
April 15, 2016

Hillary Clinton may have foreign policy experience, but it is experience comprised of disaster after disaster.

In an interview with the New York Daily News, journalist Juan González dug a skeleton out of Clinton’s closet: He asked the presidential candidate about her role in the coup in Honduras.

In 2009, the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of President Manuel Zelaya. The populist left-wing leader was woken up in the middle of the night, kidnapped and whisked away from his own country.

The international community immediately condemned the coup. The U.S. response was quite different. The Obama administration, and particularly the State Department under the leadership of Hillary Clinton, defended the coup.

More:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/hillary-being-misleading-about-her-role-honduras-coup

[forest444]

1. She may be Mrs. Clinton.

But you call her Miss Leading.

[Judi Lynn]

4. If the shoe fits..... n/t

[shadowmayor]

2. Support Democracy?

When has America ever supported democracy in Latin America??? Only when some murderous right-wing, pro-business oligarch wins a phony election. Remember when we immediately supported the coup against Chavez in Venezuela? Unfortunately for our State Dept. Chavez had other plans. War is a racket and our troops are nothing but errand boys for Wall Street.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Major General Smedley Butler surely had learned that by 1935, hadn't he?

Unbearable lack of evolution since then, goddawful, horrible.

It takes real determination for propagandists to refuse to acknowledge history.

[creeksneakers2]

3. The coup had already taken place by the time

Hillary got involved. She had no part in it. She did work with the new rulers to have an election. For this, her enemies claim she helped the coup or even prevented the previous president from returning. That's nonsense. There was no way the previous president was going to return. He was voted out by the legislature in which his own party had a majority. The election didn't turn out well, but Hillary's approach was a reasonable response to a bad situation.

This narrative also omits that the previous president disobeyed a court order and was ordered arrested by the court. It wasn't just a rogue act by the military. Laws were broken but other parts of the coup were constitutional. Hillary said the coup was both, which is historically accurate.

[cprise]

7. She helped the junta militarize its police

and the resulting rise in repression and violence is quite evident.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016152139

[Eko]

6. She was there in person at the start of the coup.

She was all Rambo'd out, with guns blazing and single handedly took out all 100 of the presidents guards. There is video of it on youtube. Sheesh.

[Doctor_J]

8. Why don't they call it lying?

I would