How Hillary Helped Ruin Haiti

[BigBearJohn]

Much of the blame for Haiti’s chaotic political scene can be pinned on Hillary Clinton’s State Department, whose handpicked president has only made things worse.

Last week Haiti’s Electoral Council postponed the nation’s current presidential election indefinitely. The present chaos is a fitting coda to the recent presidency of Michel Martelly, a novice politician who governed accordingly.

Amid the current upheaval, the name Mirlande Manigat is well worth recalling. As Haiti struggled to dig out from the disastrous 2010 earthquake, Manigat stood poised to become its first elected female president—until Hillary Clinton’s State Department intervened.

A former First Lady of Haiti and a respected university administrator, Manigat invoked Brazil’s Lula as she ran on a moderately left-wing platform championing universal public education. Manigat, who holds a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne, also campaigned in the U.S., detailing at length her vision for Haiti.

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[FlatBaroque]

1. Disaster Capitalism + Cronyism = Clintonism /

[Baobab]

4. They are trying to do the same thing to the US

Again.

[noiretextatique]

2. Undermined AA forum posters...any comments?

I didn't think so. This is the shit that even Black HRC supporters cannot support, so they just ignore it. They might alert and delete my post though.

[Chiquitita]

3. And we should add Honduras as well

The assassination last month of Berta Cáceres, a feminist indigenous environmental leader, is another reason I'm not ready for Hillary.

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/11/before_her_assassination_berta_caceres_singled

"AMY GOODMAN: That was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsing the coup. What is the trajectory of what happened then to the horror of this past week, the assassination of Berta Cáceres?

GREG GRANDIN: Well, that’s just one horror. I mean, hundreds of peasant activists and indigenous activists have been killed. Scores of gay rights activists have been killed. I mean, it’s just—it’s just a nightmare in Honduras. I mean, there’s ways in which the coup regime basically threw up Honduras to transnational pillage. And Berta Cáceres, in that interview, says what was installed after the coup was something like a permanent counterinsurgency on behalf of transnational capital. And that was—that wouldn’t have been possible if it were not for Hillary Clinton’s normalization of that election, or legitimacy."

[Baobab]

5. Have you read "Killing Hope" by William Blum?

With its long litany of US interventions in >60 countries since WWII.

Most of them have been unmitigated disasters.

Its very much worth reading.

[Chiquitita]

6. Thanks, I'll check it out.