Hillary Clinton and the Honduras coup

Honduras has always been an American plaything, to be toyed with for the benefit of United Fruit (rebranded Chiquita) and the native landowning aristocracy, ... Meanwhile, back in Washington, the State Department, instead of forthrightly denouncing the coup as a setback for the cause of Democracy and ...

Explained Thomas Carothers of the Carnegie Endowment: “The U.S. didn't want to see left-wing governments elected and so it did engage fairly often in trying to influence elections in other countries.” However, attitudes in Washington haven't changed much. In 2014 the U.S. backed a street putsch against ...

Yet the list of U.S.-trained coup-makers — from Isaac Zida of Burkina Faso, Haiti's Philippe Biamby, and Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia to Egypt's Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, and the IMET-educated leaders of the 2009 coup in Honduras, not to mention Mali's Amadou Sanogo ...

In 2009, as Nation readers know, a decent, democratically elected, president, Manuel Zelaya, was ousted in a coup that was quickly legitimated by then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The post-putsch government consolidated some of the worst elements in Honduras: most importantly, a global ...

Obama's State Department, then run by Hillary Clinton, only urged that “democratic principles” be respected. In Honduras in 2009, after a few initial criticisms of yet another constitutional coup, Obama largely ceded the issue to Secretary Clinton, who worked to legitimize Honduras's new regime. In all three ...

In 2014, journalist Christiane Amanpour sat down for a town hall interview with Hillary Clinton. Amanpour asked Clinton .... Clinton's State Department provided material support for the 2009 Honduran coup, aiding and abetting the golpistas in their successful drive to consolidate power via a sham election.

The closest the U.S. ever came to a coup was probably the Wall Street Putsch in 1933, when a handful of financiers tried to recruit Smedley Butler, a retired marine general, to lead a coup against then-new president Franklin Roosevelt. The general blew the whistle on them, the coup went nowhere, but no ...

Emails Show Secretary Clinton Disobeyed Obama Policy And Continued Funding For Honduras Coup Regime ... that she turned to a lobbyist employed by Honduran business interests suspected of orchestrating the coup to get access to the Roberto Micheletti, the “de facto” president of the putsch regime.

The Honduran orchestrators of the coup and their Washington collaborators disingenuously justified the putsch by claiming Zelaya had broken the law by ... Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has promoted her role in preventing Zelaya from returning to office as part of her hawkish electoral campaign strategy.

A Labyrinth of Deception: Secretary Clinton and the Honduran Coup ... Within days, Honduras reverted to its recurrent role as a narco-state due to the ..... Hillary Clinton has indeed asserted that she fought and even defeated the coup. ..... Conroy, Bill, “Money Talks in U.S. Policy Toward Honduran Putsch ...

Honduran military police at an August 24, 2016, ceremony in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. ... coup that was quickly legitimated by then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The post-putsch government consolidated some of the worst elements ... Honduras, especially since the 2009 coup, provides no end of such ...

Obama's State Department, then run by Hillary Clinton, only urged that “democratic ... were the department to label events in Honduras a “coup. ... used to condone Brazil's putsch: the resiliency of democratic institutions… the ...

The closest the U.S. ever came to a coup was probably the Wall Street Putsch in 1933, when a handful of financiers tried to recruit Smedley ...

From the 2009 coup until 2012, the U.S.-backed Honduran regime ... with the most retrograde elements in Honduras to consolidate the putsch," ...

We begin today's show looking at Hillary Clinton and Honduras. ... situation worse by punishing the Honduran people if we declare a coup and ...

Hard choices: Hillary Clinton admits role in Honduran coup aftermath ... The chapter on Latin America, particularly the section on Honduras, ...

A Labyrinth of Deception: Secretary Clinton and the Honduran Coup ... Within days, Honduras reverted to its recurrent role as a narco-state due to the ..... Hillary Clinton has indeed asserted that she fought and even defeated the coup. ..... Conroy, Bill, “Money Talks in U.S. Policy Toward Honduran Putsch ...

Honduran military police at an August 24, 2016, ceremony in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. ... coup that was quickly legitimated by then–Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The post-putsch government consolidated some of the worst elements ... Honduras, especially since the 2009 coup, provides no end of such ...

Obama's State Department, then run by Hillary Clinton, only urged that “democratic ... were the department to label events in Honduras a “coup. ... used to condone Brazil's putsch: the resiliency of democratic institutions… the ...

Did Hillary Clinton stand by as Honduras coup ushered in era of violence? ... streets of the Honduran capital when the security forces attacked.

The closest the U.S. ever came to a coup was probably the Wall Street Putsch in 1933, when a handful of financiers tried to recruit Smedley ...

Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's recently deposed president, calls it a coup. ... In Honduras, in particular, Hillary Clinton as Obama's secretary of state ...

Hillary Clinton may have foreign policy experience, but it is experience ... From the 2009 coup until 2012, the U.S.-backed Honduran regime killed ... with the most retrograde elements in Honduras to consolidate the putsch,” ...

Hear Hillary Clinton Defend Her Role in Honduras Coup When .... worse by punishing the Honduran people if we declare a coup and we ...

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Sri Vasamsetti, 22, of Seattle and a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, watches televised coverage of the US presidential election at the Comet Tavern in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington on November 8, 2016.

Obama's State Department, then run by Hillary Clinton, only urged that "democratic principles" be respected. In Honduras in 2009, after a few initial criticisms of yet another constitutional coup, Obama largely ceded the issue to Secretary Clinton, who ...

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In 2014, journalist Christiane Amanpour sat down for a town hall interview with Hillary Clinton. Amanpour asked Clinton what the US should do .... Clinton's State Department provided material support for the 2009 Honduran coup, aiding and abetting the ...

It is chock full of nonwhite people who feel fortunate to have any kind of job that helps them escape danger, misery terror, and oppression in far-away places like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sudan, Honduras, Mexico, and Haiti ...

... of Berta Caceres tell "Democracy Now!" about the Honduran environmental and indigenous activist, who was assassinated Thursday.