Hillary is Working to Repress Human Rights in latin America- thats Right Wing, Not Progressive

[Baobab]

[link:http://www.thenation.com/article/a-voters-guide-to-hillary-clintons-policies-in-latin-america/
|A Voter’s Guide to Hillary Clinton’s Policies in Latin America: Support for coup regimes, militarization and privatization, trade deals that wreak economic havoc—they reveal the failure of Clintonism].

By Greg Grandin

April 15, 2016


http://www.thenation.com/article/a-voters-guide-to-hillary-clintons-policies-in-latin-america/

Excerpt:

Honduras: By now, Clinton’s involvement in helping to institutionalize the 2009 coup against a reforming president who had the support of all of the country’s most courageous and bravest people—land reformers, gay activists, unionists, feminists, environmentalists, and so on—is well known. “Women’s rights are human rights,” Clinton famously declared. But in Honduras, she worked to legitimize the overthrow of a government that was trying to make the morning-after pill available and advance the rights of members of the LGBT community. In so doing, Clinton helped install a regime that has been killing women and men at an impressive clip. Death squads have returned to the country.

Just last week, in her interview with the New York Daily News, Clinton revised her story regarding her actions in Honduras yet again (after having cut the most damning paragraphs from her book Hard Choices). Then she said, “We need to do more of a Colombian Plan for Central America.”

Colombia: The idea that Hillary Clinton wants to do to Central America what her husband did to Colombia is troubling.

“Torture, massacres, ‘disappearances,’ and killing of non-combatants” became routinized under Plan Colombia.

Here’s what Plan Colombia did to that country: In 2000, just before leaving the White House, Bill Clinton ratcheted up military aid. Plan Colombia, as the assistance program was called, provided billions of dollars to what was the most repressive government in the hemisphere. The effect was to speed the paramilitarization of society, with government—and military—allied death squads penetrating the intelligence services, judiciary, municipal government, legislature, and executive branch. Washington money effectively subsidized the narco-right’s enormous land grab. According to the US government’s own figures, “in rural areas, less than 1% of the population owns more than half Colombia’s best land.” “Torture, massacres, ‘disappearances,’ and killing of non-combatants” became routinized, with trade unionists, peasants, and Afro-Colombians the main victims. The CIA’s own World Factbook says that a staggering 6.3 million Colombians have been internally displaced (IDP) since 1985, with “about 300,000 new IDPs each year since 2000”—that is, the year Bill Clinton enacted Plan Colombia. Added up, that’s 2.4 million people during Clinton’s eight-year presidency.

[LiberalArkie]

1. Hillary and Bill are from Bizarro world like the Bushes. So like clear cutting forests is forest

preservation, and waging war all over the middle east is peace, repressing human rights and fracking are being Progressives. Speaking to multi millionaires and receiving donations from them is being in touch with the little people.

Things are different with people from Bizarro world.

[Baobab]

2. greedworld

is more like it

[Ed Suspicious]

3. Oh, stop being such a purist.

[rhett o rick]

4. k&r

[RufusTFirefly]

5. Are you a misogynist, a right-wing tool, a hater, or do you just like ponies?

You must choose at least one.



Isn't it remarkable how the 'bots can put us on the defensive from the get-go?

Reminds me of opposing the Iraq War for ironclad reasons, yet having to deflect steady accusations of being a Saddam apologist or recklessly putting American security at risk.

P.S. I've read three of Grandin's books (including his latest about Hillary's best bud, Henry) and have heard him interviewed numerous times. He knows what he's talking about.

[truedelphi]

6. But remember, repression pays off for those in the know!

I mean which of us would earn some three million bucks a year from the Laureate Educational Foundation?

Bill did earn it though.

Who knows where such an institution would ever get such large amounts of money to pay someone like this?

Or is this where the six billion bucks of tax payer dough mishandled by State Department went? (in part.)

http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/03/bill-clinton-was-paid-more-than-16-million-by-a-for-profit-college-company/
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Bill Clinton was paid a whopping $16.5 million from 2010 through 2014 by a for-profit education company, recently released Clinton tax returns show.

Clinton signed on as the honorary chancellor of Laureate International Universities, a subsidiary of Laureate Education, in 2010. Despite the honorary nature of his position, that didn’t stop the company from paying him on average approximately $3 million a year.

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“Laureate students represent the next generation of leadership. I have seen a commitment to quality and leadership throughout the Laureate network, and I have enjoyed being a part of it,” Clinton said in a statement after he stepped down from the post last April. His departure came shortly after his wife Hillary Clinton began her campaign for the presidency, though Laureate says Bill simply left because his five year contract was up.

[Baobab]

7. US's global war against public education started in the Clinton years, health care too.

GWoPE?

http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/news_details/2659

[polly7]

8. Horrible. nt.

[Babel_17]

9. The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States ...

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator,[2] with the stated mission to "make an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred."[3] It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.[4] It is associated with The Nation Institute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nation

P.S. http://www.thenation.com/article/sanders-fights-on-for-the-strongest-progressive-agenda-that-any-political-party-has-ever-seen/

[Raine]

10. It certainly does nothing for women

isn't Hillary a champion for all women....

[RufusTFirefly]

11. Or children.

Clinton's "mentor," Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children's Defense Fund, is not a Hillary supporter. That should tell us something.

Yet Robert Kagan, notorious neocon and co-founder of Project for a New American Century, is a Hillary fan.