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Related: About this forumFrom "The Nation" - Clinton Backed Honduran Regime is Picking Off Indigenous Leaders
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Hillary Clinton will be good for women. Ask Berta Cáceres. But you cant. Shes dead. Gunned down yesterday, March 2, at midnight, in her hometown of La Esperanza, Intibuca, in Honduras.
Cáceres was a vocal and brave indigenous leader, an opponent of the 2009 Honduran coup that Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, made possible. In The Nation, Dana Frank and I covered that coup as it unfolded. Later, as Clintons emails were released, others, such as Robert Naiman, Mark Weisbrot, and Alex Main, revealed the central role she played in undercutting Manuel Zelaya, the deposed president, and undercutting the opposition movement demanding his restoration. In so doing, Clinton allied with the worst sectors of Honduran society.
Despite the fact that he was a rural patriarch, Zelaya as president was remarkably supportive of intersectionality (that is, a left politics not reducible to class or political economy): He tried to make the morning-after pill legal. (After Zelayas ouster, Hondurass coup congressthe one legitimated by Hillary Clintonpassed an absolute ban on emergency contraception, criminalizing the sale, distribution, and use of the morning-after pillimposing punishment for offenders equal to that of obtaining or performing an abortion, which in Honduras is completely restricted.) He supported gay and transgender rights. (Read this. Among the first to be murdered was Vicky Hernandez Castillo, a transgendered activist in San Pedro Sula. Hernandez left her home on the night of the coup, apparently unaware that the new government had decreed a curfew. She was found dead the next morning, shot in the eye and strangled; Sentidog, an LGBT monitoring group, writes that 168 LGBT people were killed in Honduras between the coup and 2014.) Zelaya apologized for a policy of social cleansingthat is, the murder and disappearance of street children and gang membersexecuted by his predecessors. And he backed rural peasant and indigenous movements, such as the one Cáceres led, in the fight against land dispossession, mining, and biofuels. Zelaya, as president, was by no means perfect. But he was slowly trying to use the power of the state on behalf of the best people in Honduras, including Berta Cáceres.
Since Zelayas ouster, theres been an all-out assault on these decent peopletorture, murder, militarization of the countryside, repressive laws, such as the absolute ban on the morning-after pill, the rise of paramilitary security forces, and the wholesale deliverance of the countrys land and resources to transnational pillagers. Thats not to mention libertarian fantasies, promoted by billionaires such as PayPals Peter Thiel and Milton Friedmans grandson (cant make this shit up), of turning the country into some kind of Year-Zero stateless utopia. (Watch this excellent documentary by Jesse Freeston on La Resistencia: The Fight for the Aguán Valley.)
Such is the nature of the unity government Clinton helped institutionalize. In her book, Hard Choices, Clinton holds up her Honduran settlement as a proud example of her trademark clear-eyed, pragmatic foreign policy approach.......
......Im tempted to end this post with a call on Bernie bros and sisters to hold Hillary Clinton responsible and to ask, when possible in town halls and meet and greets, if she ever met Cáceres, or if she is still proud of the hell she helped routinize in Honduras. But, really, Cáceress assassination shouldnt be reduced to the idiocy of American electoral politics. All people of goodwill should ask Hillary Clinton those questions.
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From "The Nation" - Clinton Backed Honduran Regime is Picking Off Indigenous Leaders (Original Post)
dflprincess
Mar 2016
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Divernan
(15,480 posts)1. History will be brutal to both of the Clintons, as it should be.
Last edited Sun Mar 6, 2016, 06:14 AM - Edit history (1)
The amount of death, destruction and suffering, at home and abroad, resulting from the policies promoted and enacted by the two of them is horrifying. It is incomprehensible.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)2. Henry Kissinger is so very proud of his pupil right now
I can imagine the tears in his eyes, knowing his tutelage made a difference.
I image he is on the phone right now congratulating her on her successful regime change, just as he taught her!
She is the daughter he always wished he had.
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)3. horrible.