What a surprise, as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton aggressively supported the right wing coup in Honduras.<\/p>\n
Now we discover that the government’s US trained military has been assassinating indigenous environmental activists<\/a>:<\/p>\n Berta C\u00e1ceres, the murdered environmental campaigner, appeared on a hitlist distributed to US-trained special forces units of the Honduran military months before her death, a former soldier has claimed.<\/span> \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n C\u00e1ceres\u2019s daughter, Bertita Z\u00fa\u00f1iga, said Cruz\u2019s testimony strengthened the family\u2019s calls for an independent international investigation to find the intellectual authors.<\/p>\n \u201cThis shows us that death squads are operating in the armed forces, which are being used to get rid of people opposing government plans. It shows us that human rights violations are state policy in Honduras.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy cred is a myth.<\/p>\n She has been wrong, and continues to be wrong, on Everything<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a surprise, as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton aggressively supported the right wing coup in Honduras. Now we discover that the government’s US trained military has been assassinating indigenous environmental activists: Berta C\u00e1ceres, the murdered environmental campaigner, appeared on a hitlist distributed to US-trained special forces units of the Honduran military months before her …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1079,969,1068,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-environment","category-evil","category-latin-america","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/span> Lists featuring the names and photographs of dozens of social and environmental activists were given to two elite units, with orders to eliminate each target, according to First Sergeant Rodrigo Cruz, 20.<\/span>
<\/span> Cruz\u2019s unit commander, a 24-year-old lieutenant, deserted rather than comply with the order. Cruz \u2013 who asked to be identified by a pseudonym for fear of reprisal \u2013 followed suit, and fled to a neighbouring country. Several other members of the unit have disappeared and are feared dead.<\/span>
<\/span> \u201cIf I went home, they\u2019d kill me. Ten of my former colleagues are missing. I\u2019m 100% certain that Berta C\u00e1ceres was killed by the army,\u201d Cruz told the Guardian.<\/span>
<\/span> C\u00e1ceres, an indigenous Lenca leader who won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015 for a campaign against the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam, was shot dead in her home in March. Before her murder, she had reported 33 death threats linked to the campaign and had warned international human rights delegates that her name was on a hitlist. <\/span>
<\/span> According to Cruz, C\u00e1ceres\u2019s name appeared on a list given to a military police unit in the Inter-institutional Security Force (Fusina), which last summer received training from 300 US marines and FBI agents<\/a>.<\/p>\n