Member Profile Total number of comments: 1 (since 2015-04-15 02:18:36) Gar Lipow Showing comments 1 - 1Page: 1 US history of coup-making Overshadows Obama's outreach to Iran, Latin American Left Gar Lipow 04/14/2015 at 5:00 pm There has been at least one coup in Latin America that Obama could have acted against and did not: Honduras. Read the NY times in 2012 on this. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/in-honduras-a-mess-helped-by-the-us.html?_r=0 Also some recent releases by wikileaks confirm that all the excuses for not following US law with regard to cutting off aid after this coup were not only nonsense, but know by the State Department at the time to be nonsense http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/wikileaks-honduras-state_b_789282.html Showing comments 1 - 1Page: 1 TweetShareRedditEmail
There has been at least one coup in Latin America that Obama could have acted against and did not: Honduras. Read the NY times in 2012 on this. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/opinion/in-honduras-a-mess-helped-by-the-us.html?_r=0
Also some recent releases by wikileaks confirm that all the excuses for not following US law with regard to cutting off aid after this coup were not only nonsense, but know by the State Department at the time to be nonsense http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/wikileaks-honduras-state_b_789282.html