Hillary
Clinton ignored advice to punish Honduran businesses for backing the
2009 coup and helped push the elected President Manuel Zelaya out of
Honduran politics, an investigation by teleSUR into WikiLeaks
documents show.
Despite
insistence from her director of policy planning, Anne Marie
Slaughter, that she define Zelaya’s ousting by the military as a
military coup and that she “make noises about prohibiting U.S.
companies from doing business with companies" controlled by
the leaders, revealed in emails published by WikiLeaks, Clinton did
neither.
“I got
lots of signals last week that we are losing ground in Latin America
every day the Honduras crisis continues; high level people from both
the business and the NGO community say that even our friends are
beginning to think we are not really committed to the norm of
constitutional democracy we have worked so hard to build over the
last 20 years,” wrote Slaughter two months after the coup. “I
am willing to take additional steps but I'd like them to be fully
vetted,” was Clinton’s one-line response.
While
Clinton did move to suspend the visas of those in the de facto
military government three months after the coup, as Slaughter
requested, she kept close ties with the business community. Previous
investigations into her leaked emails revealed that she even
consulted Lanny Davis of the Honduran chapter of the Business Council
of Latin America, which supported the coup.
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