2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHard choices: Hillary Clinton admits role in Honduran coup aftermath
The chapter on Latin America, particularly the section on Honduras, a major source of the child migrants currently pouring into the United States, has gone largely unnoticed. In letters to Clinton and her successor, John Kerry, more than 100 members of Congress have repeatedly warned about the deteriorating security situation in Honduras, especially since the 2009 military coup that ousted the countrys democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. As Honduran scholar Dana Frank points out in Foreign Affairs, the U.S.-backed post-coup government rewarded coup loyalists with top ministries, opening the door for further violence and anarchy.
The homicide rate in Honduras, already the highest in the world, increased by 50 percent from 2008 to 2011; political repression, the murder of opposition political candidates, peasant organizers and LGBT activists increased and continue to this day. Femicides skyrocketed. The violence and insecurity were exacerbated by a generalized institutional collapse. Drug-related violence has worsened amid allegations of rampant corruption in Honduras police and government. While the gangs are responsible for much of the violence, Honduran security forces have engaged in a wave of killings and other human rights crimes with impunity.
First, the confession: Clinton admits that she used the power of her office to make sure that Zelaya would not return to office. In the subsequent days [after the coup] I spoke with my counterparts around the hemisphere, including Secretary [Patricia] Espinosa in Mexico, Clinton writes. We strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot.
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/9/hillary-clinton-honduraslatinamericaforeignpolicy.html
The only thing missing is Hillary espousing the dangers of the "Domino Effect"
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)stranded in the middle. She is drenched in blood but then she hugs the rotting corpse of Henry Kissinger whose stench is all over this.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Scares the hell out of me but I bet the Defense Dept is drooling.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)MattSh
(3,714 posts)But the DoD isn't nearly that stupid.
amborin
(16,631 posts)Libya and Syria; bloodbaths and mayhem follow
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Those children, up until the last debate she was in favor of detaining and deporting
amborin
(16,631 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...to office.
In the subsequent days I spoke with my counterparts around the hemisphere, including Secretary Espinosa in Mexico, Clinton writes. We strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot.
So Hillary Clinton helped overthrow a democratically elected President.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)even less. Thousands of Honduran activists got caught in that crossfire.
H2O Man
(73,559 posts)This is truly disturbing. I've been reading a few articles about it recently. It's definitely a topic that we need to be discussing. Thank you for posting this.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)pscot
(21,024 posts)And Dr. K is a war criminal.
Uncle Joe
(58,365 posts)Thanks for the thread, FreakinDJ.
So glad this is coming to light.
Duval
(4,280 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 11, 2016, 08:50 PM - Edit history (1)
Against it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511468004
angrychair
(8,700 posts)That point you made was valid but your use of that word becomes the focus and not the content.
Use of that word only feeds the "berniebro" meme.
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)Hillary it is. We're all still Democrats here after all.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)noamnety
(20,234 posts)Given that she lied about trying to enlist and they wouldn't let her - when it was clear she was never going to enlist in the first place - then voted to send others to war, I think she's earned the title.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)foggy bottom, Congress, nothin.'
She is a disaster capitalist of the first water.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Many real unanswered questions to be addressed:
People hold up photos of slain Honduran indigenous leader and environmentalist Berta Cáceres outside the coroners office in Tegucigalpa. (AP Photo / Fernando Antonio), via The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/chronicle-of-a-honduran-assassination-foretold/
Agony
(2,605 posts)among other things.
Fairgo
(1,571 posts)Where's the moral bleach!?