{"id":22310,"date":"2016-09-28T11:44:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T18:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22310"},"modified":"2016-09-28T11:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T18:44:55","slug":"clintons-role-in-the-honduras-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22310","title":{"rendered":"Clinton’s Role in the Honduras Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"clinton-poster\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Postmarxed <\/a>writes:<\/p>\n

Q: What did Hillary to do Honduras?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As secretary of state in 2009, she helped orchestrate a coup against a center-left president there<\/a>, which resulted in a wave of political killings.\u00a0 LGBT activists and peasant activists in particular have been targeted but opposition politicians and journalists have been murdered by military police there too. This is still going on<\/a> and was the main reason for the tens of thousands of central american children who were trying to enter the US unaccompanied in 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clinton\u2019s behind-the-scenes opposition to bringing President Zelaya back after the coup was an terrible choice, and she deserves to be criticized harshly for it. It looks to me as if she prioritized business interests and political expediency over democracy. And doing this behind the scenes while publicly claiming to want Zelaya returned to office was hypocritical.<\/p>\n

The consequences of the coup have been awful.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not aware of any evidence that Clinton \u201chelped orchestrate\u201d the coup.\u00a0 Rodolfo Pastor, who worked for President Zelaya, has written \u201cthe American government did not, as such, order or mount or stage the coup\u2014it just danced along with its monsters.\u201d Is there reason to think he was wrong?<\/p>\n

Furthermore, it doesn\u2019t seem likely that Zelaya could have been peacefully restored to the Presidency, even if Clinton had supported his position. Am I mistaken about that?<\/p>\n

(I’m still planning to vote for Clinton. I wish there were a credible Presidential candidate running, who I liked better than Hillary Clinton on foreign policy. But there isn’t.)<\/p>\n

Some sources: 1<\/a> 2<\/a> 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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