May 30, 2020 2 Comments
by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog
Some people say that Hillary Clinton had no achievements as the U.S.
Secretary of State; but that view is factually false. She had a huge and
enduring impact, on at least three countries, as will here be documented via
the links:
HONDURAS:
When the dozen
oligarchs who control Honduras overthrew Honduras’s popular democratically
elected President Manuel Zelaya on 28 June 2009, and installed a military junta
which set about exterminating its opposition, the U.S. Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton was able, alone of officials in the Western Hemisphere, to keep
that regime in power (despite efforts by all other governments in the
Hemisphere to restore the legal government), by
arranging increased military and economic aid to the new government. Soon
afterward, Honduras had the world’s highest murder-rate, and a surging outflow
of poor people through Mexico into the United Sates as refugees from the exploding
violence at home.
As Vice News
reported on 9 September 2014: “Overall,
illegal immigration from Central America has risen about 500% since late 2010.
Families, single moms, and children, are a larger and larger share of people
who make the long, and potentially dangerous trek through Mexico, to the United
States. More child migrants are now coming from San Pedro Sula Honduras and
surrounding areas [the Bajo Aguán Valley], than anyplace else in
Central America; and, as ordinary Hondurans told us over and over again, the
outflow is being fueled by an explosive mix of violence, poverty, and
inequality.” The democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya, whom Hillary
Clinton’s Honduran friends had overthrown, had been trying to impose land
reform and other measures which were addressed to meeting the needs of the
millions of Honduras’s poor, but the new Honduran government viewed the
Honduran masses as trash, and eliminated President Zelaya’s programs to help
them.