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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 12:32 AM Jun 2018

US, Amnesty International call for justice in Honduras

US, Amnesty International call for justice in Honduras
Updated 8:59 pm, Monday, June 18, 2018

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The United States' top diplomat and a global human rights group called on the Honduran government Monday to hold members of its security forces responsible for alleged abuses after November's elections.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez the need to pursue those responsible.

Hernandez, who was re-elected to a second term in elections that opponents called fraudulent, visited Pompeo in Washington.

That meeting followed Amnesty International's release of a report on the postelection protests.

More:
https://www.chron.com/news/world/article/US-Amnesty-International-call-for-justice-in-13005354.php

LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142087671

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US, Amnesty International call for justice in Honduras (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2018 OP

Not a lot going on in Honduras these days. Things are quiet, according to my associates there. GatoGordo Jun 2018 #1

Not a lot going on in Honduras? Then why post on this thread? Start your own thread. n/t Judi Lynn Jun 2018 #2

You mentioned Amnesty International and their views on Latin America GatoGordo Jun 2018 #3

Hey, yeah, an "arm chair Marxist," sitting in a hot tub, have just cut the cheese, poured the wine! Judi Lynn Jun 2018 #4

Are you posting from Honduras? GatoGordo Jun 2018 #5

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)

1. Not a lot going on in Honduras these days. Things are quiet, according to my associates there.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 10:58 PM

Jun 2018

All of Castro's boys have jumped on the bus and headed to Nicaragua to save Ortega's bacon. All that is left is a couple of Marxist "student leaders" from the United States to agitate.

Below, what Amnesty International has to say about that.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/05/nicaragua-authorities-unleashed-a-lethal-strategy-of-repression-against-protesters/

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)

2. Not a lot going on in Honduras? Then why post on this thread? Start your own thread. n/t

Reply to GatoGordo (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:08 AM

Jun 2018

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)

3. You mentioned Amnesty International and their views on Latin America

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:03 PM

Jun 2018

I am offering insight.

As a matter of fact, I would wager that MY insight into what is REALLY going on in Latin America is far superior to what some arm-chair Marxists (who probably haven't left the comfy confines of their own safe domicile and actually visited Latin America) might be. I call and Skype daily with people who live in Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Venezuela. I have adopted children from Latin America. I have family that I talk to constantly in Honduras and Venezuela. Real news from real people who REALLY live there.

What can you offer? ColombiaReports? CounterPunch? Granma?

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)

4. Hey, yeah, an "arm chair Marxist," sitting in a hot tub, have just cut the cheese, poured the wine!

Reply to GatoGordo (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:29 PM

Jun 2018

What are you, clair-#######-voyant?

What's going on in Honduras isn't "far superior" to what I "might be." (What DOES that mean?)

GatoGordo

(2,412 posts)

5. Are you posting from Honduras?

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #4)

Wed Jun 20, 2018, 03:39 PM

Jun 2018

Are you on the ground in Nicaragua? Venezuela?

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