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Hillary Clinton Completely Ignores Honduras Coup Activists

  • Hillary Clinton addresses the crowd during a campaign stop in Kentucky

    Hillary Clinton addresses the crowd during a campaign stop in Kentucky | Photo: Reuters

Published 20 May 2016
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The activists were from La Voz de Los Abajo, a human rights organization that has campaigned for justice in Honduras after the Clinton-sponsored 2009 coup.

A group of activists from La Voz de Abajo confronted Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton at a fundraising event in Chicago Wednesday, pointing to one of her darkest moments as United States Secretary of State: the 2009 coup in Honduras.

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“We are here today to hold Sec. Clinton accountable for her role in setting U.S. policy toward Honduras that legitimized and extended the 2009 coup that weakened institutionality, increased militarization, and unleashed violence and human rights abuses in every sphere of life, leading thousands of Hondurans to flee their country," the group said in a statement.

La Voz de Abajo is a collective of human rights activists campaigning against the dire human rights situation in Honduras. Members chanted "Honduras’ blood is on your hands" at the event.

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Clinton supported a military coup d'etat that resulted in the ouster of democratically-elected Leftist leader Manuel Zelaya.

Since then, violence perpetrated by the coup government and "death squads it shelters and nurtures against those opposed to the coup has piled up hundreds of deaths including Indigenous environmentalist and social justice activist Berta Caceres on March 3 this year," the statement continued.

“I’ll just keep talking … Those who shout rarely like to listen,” Clinton responded. 

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