As
Hillary Clinton Defends Her Role in 2009 Coup, Is U.S. Aid to
Honduras Adding "Fuel to the Fire"?, Democracy Now, May
24, 2016
"There’s no other way to categorize what happened in 2009[, the ouster of elected-President Mel Zelaya (Wikipedia link)], other than a military coup with no legal basis," Bird says. "The U.S. was not willing to cut off assistance to Honduras, and that is the only reason it was not called a coup, a military coup. At the time, activists like Berta called for the assistance to be cut off, and today her children are calling for it to be cut off, because the U.S. assistance is actually adding fuel to the fire and stoking the economic interests of the people behind the coup." [emphasis added LAS]
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I have just receive a cry for help from the Friends Committee on National Legislation with fighting a secret increase in the U.S. military budget. I hope to write you further about that by midday tomorrow. Please be ready to call your Senator. The vote "could be coming up as soon as Thursday." Big things, including some bad things, seem to be happening thick and fast; I do not know what else to say. Let us do what we can do. Thank you.
love,
Larry
"There’s no other way to categorize what happened in 2009[, the ouster of elected-President Mel Zelaya (Wikipedia link)], other than a military coup with no legal basis," Bird says. "The U.S. was not willing to cut off assistance to Honduras, and that is the only reason it was not called a coup, a military coup. At the time, activists like Berta called for the assistance to be cut off, and today her children are calling for it to be cut off, because the U.S. assistance is actually adding fuel to the fire and stoking the economic interests of the people behind the coup." [emphasis added LAS]
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I have just receive a cry for help from the Friends Committee on National Legislation with fighting a secret increase in the U.S. military budget. I hope to write you further about that by midday tomorrow. Please be ready to call your Senator. The vote "could be coming up as soon as Thursday." Big things, including some bad things, seem to be happening thick and fast; I do not know what else to say. Let us do what we can do. Thank you.
love,
Larry
