2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBefore Her Assassination, Berta Cáceres Singled Out Hillary Clinton for Backing Honduran Coup
Agony
(2,605 posts)Hillary #unredeemable
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)Response to amborin (Original post)
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Agony
(2,605 posts)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.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)she was interviewed by Amy Goodman. Maybe you can go watch it and GET INFORMED.
She said that is nonsense. That is the story Hillary is peddling but there are many, many emails where they talked about it and called it a coup by the military. It was the military who loaded the democratically elected president onto a plane and flew him out of the country.
But it is good to see her reaction. She couldn't believe Hillary would go out in public and say such an outright lie.
You can believe whatever you choose to believe but I think you should get informed and not simply accept what Hilary says a "true". She has proven herself to be a habitual liar.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)What Hillary Clinton did on behalf of Wall Street and War Inc:
Nephew of murdered Honduran activist Cáceres: 'The atmosphere is terrifying'
Silvio Carrillo grew up alongside Berta Cáceres, a leading campaigner for human rights. After the deaths of hundreds of campaigners in Honduras in the span of a few years, he believes his aunt was targeted for her efforts
by David Smith
The Guardian, March 9, 2016
Silvio Carrillo holds a creased black and white photo of a three-year-old girl, frowning at the camera and clutching a doll, and fights back the tears. The girl grew up to be his aunt, Berta Cáceres, a fearless human rights activist and heroine to indigenous people in Honduras. Last week, she was shot dead in her home, a day shy of her 45th birthday.
Cáceres had long complained of death threats from police, the army and landowners groups over her opposition to one of Central Americas biggest hydropower projects. She won the 2015 Goldman environmental prize, regarded as the worlds top award for grassroots environmental activism.
Carrillo, 43, told the Guardian he believed she had been targeted for her work. She pissed a lot of people off She was a major threat to the establishment.
She was a moral leader. She was put on this grand stage and that multiplied when she won the Goldman prize. If you heard her speak, she was powerful. She was near becoming impossible to take down, he said.
Cáceres earned admiration and enemies leading a decade-long fight against a project to build a dam along the Gualcarque river, which is sacred to the Lenca people and could flood large areas of ancestral lands and cut off water supplies to hundreds. A week before her death, she had spoken out against the murder of four indigenous leaders in the Lenca community.
The co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras (Copinh) was shot four times by gunmen at her home in La Esperanza at around 1am on Thursday. Gustavo Castro Soto, a Mexican human rights activist, survived by playing dead after bullets grazed his cheek and left hand. The attack was internationally condemned.
Carrillo, a US citizen who lives in Oakland, California, learned the news in a dawn phone conversation with his weeping mother, who was Cáceres eldest sister. He said the investigation had been mishandled from the start, with officials and the media circulating wild rumours of two perpetrators, 11 perpetrators, a crime of passion, a random robbery (nothing was stolen) or a power struggle within Copinh.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/09/berta-caceres-honduras-activist-murder-nephew-silvio-carrillo-interview
Remember: None of this came up in Univision's "Latino Hispano Americano."
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)but we have to acknowledge that Hillary has been equally consistent. . .
Bernie is consistently on the right side of the important issues and Hillary is consistently wrong on them.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Inconvenient truths...