Some background.
On June 28th 2009, the elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya was kidnapped in his pyjamas and flown to Costa Rica.
On August 7, 2009, 15 members of the United States Congress sent a letter to President Obama requesting that he make a public statement. They asked Obama to announce that there was in fact a coup against the democratically elected president of Honduras. They hoped this statement would rally public opinion to stop the human rights violations that prominent indigenous activist Berta Cáceres said were taking place. At the same time, the Miami Herald warned of the news blackout.
This past Friday, March 4th 2016 Berta Cáceres was tragically murdered. She was trying to stop the hydroelectric project that would ruin the homes and lives of indigenous people.
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Alexander Main, Senior Associate for International Policy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research wrote a piece on September 24th 2015: “The Hillary Clinton Emails and the Honduras Coup” that analyzes the newly released batches of Hillary Clinton emails that shed light on the role she played, apparently siding with the faction that staged the coup:
The released 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. The Intercept and other outlets have provided useful analyses of these emails, but there are a number of revealing passages, some in the most recent batch of emails, that haven’t yet received the attention they deserve.
Please read the article below because it’s too complex to satisfactorily pick out bits and pieces from the article.
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On july 29, 2015, Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales interviewed deposed president, Manuel Zelaya: who said about Secretary Clinton:
AMY GOODMAN: Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state at the time, also wrote about the coup in Honduras in her book, Hard Choices. She recalls how in the days after the coup, quote, "I spoke with my counterparts around the hemisphere, including Secretary [Patricia] Espinosa in Mexico. ... We strategized on a plan to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot," unquote. President Zelaya, can you talk about your knowledge of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s role at the time in 2009 when you were ousted?
MANUEL ZELAYA: [translated] I interacted with Secretary Clinton publicly on several occasions, especially when she was here in Honduras in 2009, one month before the coup d’état, and sanctions against Cuba that the OAS had imposed 40 years earlier were lifted. The decrees against Cuba were repealed, and that was the beginning of getting rid of the blockade. It began in Honduras. Secretary Clinton had many contacts with us. She is a very capable woman, intelligent, but she is very weak in the face of pressures from groups that hold power in the United States, the most extremist right-wing sectors of the U.S. government, known as the hawks of Washington. She bowed to those pressures. And that led U.S. policy to Honduras to be ambiguous and mistaken.
On the one hand, they condemned the coup, but on the other hand, they were negotiating with the leaders of the coup. And Secretary Clinton lent herself to that, maintaining that ambiguity of U.S. policy toward Honduras, which has resulted in a process of distrust and instability of Latin American governments in relation to U.S. foreign policies.
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Secretary Clinton’s book “Hard Choices” included her views of the coup and the role she played in its aftermath.