2016 Postmortem

Baobab

(4,667 posts) Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:39 PM Apr 2016

Honduras and Haiti- Official HRC positions?

Does anybody know where or if Hillary has posted any statements on the Honduran and Haiti issues?

What are her official positions on the allegations that she supported a right wing coup in Honduras and then tried to cover that up by changing passages in her book mentioned by the Honduran activist who was later murdered?

Similarly, what is her position on the cables and other records showing she opposed a rise in the minimum wage in Haiti to 60 cents an hour?

This is for a chart I am making comparing the major candidates for President in 2016

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Honduras and Haiti- Official HRC positions? (Original Post) Baobab Apr 2016 OP

Snopes looked at the wage issue Jarqui Apr 2016 #1

Jarqui

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1. Snopes looked at the wage issue

Reply to Baobab (Original post)

Wed Apr 6, 2016, 12:45 PM

Apr 2016

http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-suppressed-haitis-minimum-wage/

So it's true that the State Department (then led by Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State) strongly opposed a minimum wage increase in Haiti in 2009. However, the State Department's efforts did not occur in a political or economic vacuum, and Clinton wasn't the sole architect of efforts to quash a minimum wage hike (as the meme suggests). It was a concerted effort on the part of Haitian elites, factory owners, free trade proponents, U.S. politicians, economists, and American companies that kept the minimum wage so low, and to lay the blame squarely at the feet of any sitting Secretary of State would be an incomplete assessment, and thus inaccurate.

There is also this Haiti issue for the Clintons:

The Clintons’ Haiti Screw-Up, As Told By Hillary’s Emails
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/09/hillary-clinton-email-213110#ixzz45481r3u1

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