Hillary Clinton says,
“that unaccompanied minors who crossed the border illegally in a massive influx over recent months ‘should be sent back’ to their native countries…Clinton said the main reason minors are coming is to escape violence in their home countries, predominantly Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Amanpour asked if that meant they should be able to remain in the United States, since it is safer.
‘Well -- it may be safer but that's not the answer,’ Clinton replied.”
BUT...
Who is responsible for the violence and mayhem in their home countries? When it comes to Honduras, she should know the answer.
“In ‘Hard Choices,’ Clinton describes her role in the aftermath of the coup that brought about this dire situation. Her firsthand account is significant both for the confession of an important truth and for a crucial false testimony…Clinton admits that she used the power of her office to make sure that Zelaya would not return to office…Clinton’s false testimony is even more revealing. She reports that Zelaya was arrested amid “fears that he was preparing to circumvent the constitution and extend his term in office.” This is simply not true. As Clinton must know, when Zelaya was kidnapped by the military and flown out of the country in his pajamas on June 28, 2009, he was trying to put a consultative, nonbinding poll on the ballot to ask voters whether they wanted to have a real referendum on reforming the constitution during the scheduled election in November. It is important to note that Zelaya was not eligible to run in that election. Even if he had gotten everything he wanted, it was impossible for Zelaya to extend his term in office.
“Clinton’s position on Latin America in her bid for the presidency is another example of how the far right exerts disproportionate influence on US foreign policy in the hemisphere… This appears to be a political calculation. There is little risk of losing votes for admitting her role in making most of the hemisphere’s governments disgusted with the United States. On the other side of the equation, there are influential interest groups and significant campaign money to be raised from the right-wing Latin American lobby, including Floridian Cuban-Americans and their political fundraisers.”
Clinton's story is refuted by Manuel Zelaya in
this Democracy Now segment.
Recent email releases confirm that Clinton aided and abetted the coup.
“…emails provide a fascinating behind-the-scenes view of how Clinton pursued a contradictory policy of appearing to back the restoration of democracy in Honduras while actually undermining efforts to get Zelaya back into power…there are a number of revealing passages, some in the most recent batch of emails, that haven’t yet received the attention they deserve…
Officially the U.S. joined the rest of the hemisphere in opposing the coup, but Zelaya – who had grown close to radical social movements at home and signed cooperation agreements with Venezuela - wasn’t in the administration’s good books…A number of Clinton emails show how, starting shortly after the coup, HRC and her team shifted the deliberations on Honduras from the Organization of American States (OAS) – where Zelaya could benefit from the strong support of left-wing allies throughout the region – to the San José negotiation process in Costa Rica. There, representatives of the coup regime were placed on an equal footing with representatives of Zelaya’s constitutional government, and Costa Rican president Oscar Arias (a close U.S. ally) as mediator. Unsurprisingly, the negotiation process only succeeded in one thing: keeping Zelaya out of office for the rest of his constitutional mandate.”
Salon lays out the whole sordid story
here.
“Though it’s less sexy than Benghazi, the crisis following a coup in Honduras in 2009 has Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints all over it, and her alleged cooperation with oligarchic elites during the affair does much to expose Clinton’s newfound, campaign-season progressive rhetoric as hollow. Moreover, the Honduran coup is something of a radioactive issue with fallout that touches many on Team Clinton, including husband Bill, once put into a full context.”
It is mind-boggling to me that Clinton can speak so coldly about returning these children home to a place that she had a strong hand in destroying. Honduras is the murder capital of the world now. Mothers are so desperate that they are sending their children with strangers
across continents to the U.S. And we also know that Honduran children deported back to their country have been
murdered.
And Hillary Clinton's policy is that we must send them home. As a mother, I cannot imagine being so heartless. As a politician that created the situation at the foundation of the crisis, one might even think that she would take some responsibility.