Bernie Sanders

Mufaddal

(1,021 posts) Thu Mar 10, 2016, 10:46 AM Mar 2016

Hillary Clinton, Stalwart Friend of World's Worst Despots, Attacks Sanders' Latin American Activism

As my colleague Jeremy Scahill, observing the reaction of Clinton supporters during the debate, put it in a series of tweets: “The US sponsored deaths squads that massacred countless central and Latin Americans, murdered nuns and priests, assassinated an Archbishop. I bet commie Sanders was even against Reagan’s humanitarian mining of Nicaraguan waters & supported subsequent war crimes judgement vs. US. Have any of these Hillarybots heard of the Contra death squads? Or is it just that whatever Hillary says must be defended at all costs? The Hillarybots attacking Sanders over Nicaragua should be ashamed of themselves.”

It seems that, overnight, Clinton and her supporters have decided that Sanders’ opposition to Reagan-era wars against Latin American governments and rebel groups – a common liberal position at the time – is actually terribly wrong and something worthy of demonization rather than admiration, because those governments and groups abused human rights. Whatever else one might say about this mimicking of right-wing agitprop, Hillary Clinton for years has been one of the world’s most stalwart friends of some of the world’s worst despots and war criminals, making her and her campaign a very odd vessel for demonizing others for their links to and admiration of human-rights abusers.

Full article: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-stalwart-friend-of-worlds-worst-despots-attacks-sanders-latin-american-activism/

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Hillary Clinton, Stalwart Friend of World's Worst Despots, Attacks Sanders' Latin American Activism (Original Post) Mufaddal Mar 2016 OP

when she backed a known kingpin who announced his coup and promised to do anything MisterP Mar 2016 #1

kick Cheese Sandwich Mar 2016 #2

K & R !!! WillyT Mar 2016 #3

Yes! On both counts. SoapBox Mar 2016 #4

Responding to Clinton Barb, Sanders Blasts US Imperialism in Latin America eridani Mar 2016 #5

MisterP

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1. when she backed a known kingpin who announced his coup and promised to do anything

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Thu Mar 10, 2016, 10:50 AM

Mar 2016

to keep the democratic president out, do people think she didn't MEAN it?

maybe she'll repeat the claim that El Mozote's a Commie lie, or that the FSLN cheered the Challenger disaster; I hear Rios Montt's still kicking--let's install him

Cheese Sandwich

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2. kick

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Thu Mar 10, 2016, 02:38 PM

Mar 2016

WillyT

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3. K & R !!!

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Thu Mar 10, 2016, 05:40 PM

Mar 2016

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)

4. Yes! On both counts.

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Thu Mar 10, 2016, 06:11 PM

Mar 2016

"Or is it just that whatever Hillary says must be defended at all costs? The Hillarybots attacking Sanders over Nicaragua should be ashamed of themselves.”

eridani

(51,907 posts)

5. Responding to Clinton Barb, Sanders Blasts US Imperialism in Latin America

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Fri Mar 11, 2016, 09:15 AM

Mar 2016

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/10/responding-clinton-barb-sanders-blasts-us-imperialism-latin-america

When asked about his past support for Latin American leaders Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and Fidel Castro in Cuba, and to explain "the difference between the socialism that you profess and the socialism in Nicaragua, Cuba, and Venezuela," Sanders declared:

What that was about was saying that the United States was wrong to try to invade Cuba, that the United States was wrong trying to support people to overthrow the Nicaraguan government, that the United States was wrong trying to overthrow in 1954, the government -- democratically elected government of Guatemala.

Throughout the history of our relationship with Latin America we've operated under the so-called Monroe Doctrine, and that said the United States had the right do anything that they wanted to do in Latin America. So I actually went to Nicaragua and I very shortly opposed the Reagan administration's efforts to overthrow that government. And I strongly opposed earlier Henry Kissinger and the -- to overthrow the government of Salvador Allende in Chile.

I think the United States should be working with governments around the world, not get involved in regime change. And all of these actions, by the way, in Latin America, brought forth a lot of very strong anti-American sentiments.

[...] The key issue here was whether the United States should go around overthrowing small Latin American countries.

Clinton, on the other hand, "was at her all-out reactionary best, expressing contempt for the likes of Cuba and refusing to acknowledge her support for policies that have sown discord in the hemisphere," according to a TeleSUR analysis

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