Berta Caceres

International / Honduras

After the coupe d’état was unleashed an offensive against popular movements

Berta Caceres

By: Carlos Damián                                             March 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton is recalled her central paper to sap the return of Zelaya to the power

México. -   The assassination of Berta Caceres in Honduras is in responsibility part of the candidate to democrat president, Hillary Clinton (HC), recalling the implicit support, when was State secretary of Barack Obama, which offered to the coupe d’état men of Honduras. Greg Grandin, history teacher in the university of New York, recalls that Berta it was a brave indigenous leader "oppose to the Honduran coupe d’état of 2009 that Clinton, made possible". The ex-State secretary was a central paper in sapping the return of the declared president, Manuel Zelaya, "upon making it, Clinton was allied with the worse sectors of the Honduran society", adds Grandin. Zelaya it was kidnaped by gunfire Honduran soldiers who drew it from the country in June 28, 2009, and though the act was condemned internationally as a coup d'état, the State Department never qualified it as such, something which was interpreted as a support implicit to the blowers. Advocate deaths of the human rights and journalists in AC Grandin reports today that, before their assassination, the own Caceres indicated to Clinton as one of the responsible for legitimating to the coupe d’état in their country. Caceres it was one of the voices in demand of the return of Zelaya, but indicated that Clinton was promoting the election of a call "government of unit". Caceres, recalls that "were warning that that would be very dangerous", interview recorded at Argentina in 2014.  After of the coupe d’état was unleashed an offensive restrictive against the movements and popular interest, including that of Caceres and their group Civic Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations from Honduras (Copinh, for their initials in Spanish). Have been documented incessant activists assassination, journalists,    and defending of human rights in that country during the last years. Clinton, in their book Hard Choices, presents the case of Honduras as a great example of her manage pragmatic of her foreign policy.  "The names of the assassins of Caceres yet are not known. But we know who killed it".  It is indicated the wave of repression against the work of Copinh, above all her opposition to a great hydraulic project of a Honduran company, DESA, financed with capital foreign. Clinton in their book, describes that made all as State secretary to assure that Zelaya could not return to the presidency: "In the subsequent days (after of the coup d’état) I spoke with my counterparts about hemisphere, including the Espinosa secretary in Mexico. We elaborate strategies on a plan to restore  the order in Honduras and to assure that soon they could be accomplished free and impartial elections of legitimate way, something which would let irrelevant the issue Zelaya", was indicating in her book due to the fact that no longer appears in the issue paperback. However as recalls the analyst Mark Weisbrot, expert in American foreign policy in America: "the issue of Zelaya was all less irrelevant", since Latin American leaders, the Organization of United Nations and other multilateral organizations condemned the coup d’état and demanded the return of the legitimate president to the power. "The defiant position and anti-democratic of Clinton impelled a sliding by downward in the American relationships with several countries Latino-American on the discussion between the two pre-candidates democrats; at no time it recognized Clinton their paper in the coup d’état that now is considered one of the most violent of the world. More yet, it evaded any reference to the obviates relationship between the political situation that helped to beget in Honduras with the refugees crisis that flee from that country, and only was presented as someone that wishes to protect immigrants.  The death of Zelaya has to do with the support of The States to the lands theft She either it recalled her labor as State secretary when justified to return to age minors that were fleeing from Honduras and other Central American countries to attempt to stop the wave of migrants to The States. Beverly Bell, collaborative in projects with Caceres during more than 15 years, commented to the institute for the Precision Publica that, more than nothing, the assassination of Caceres has to do with "the continuous American support and of the government of Honduras to the lands and rivers theft, and the multinational investment". On the other hand, the organization School of the Americas Watch recalled, that the Honduran coup d’état was carried out by graduates of the before were called the School of the Americas, fight institution American for the Latin American soldiers training. The obligated question is: "if Clinton is proud from hell that helped to make routine in Honduras", concludes Grandin.    Berta Caceres, the murdered environmentalist, was converted in the principal social accusation figure of the demonstrations the International Day of the Woman, that this Tuesday (03/08/16) were accomplished not only in her country, but in Nicaragua and El Salvador. Demonstrators and environmentalist hundreds marched in Tegucigalpa and other cities of Honduras to demand justice by the assassination of the indigenous leader and so that an international commission investigate to the company Energetic Development S. A. (Desa, for their initials in Spanish), by the assassination of Caceres. “The government must investigate the assassination and to Desa because is the company that was threatening to Berta" as coordinator of the Copinh, asserted Suraya Martinez, of the Studies Center of the Woman. Caceres it was kill her of March 3rd, in the city of La Esperanza by hooded that entered to their/its/your/his housing in an action in the one which resulted injured the Mexican Gustavo Castro. "It is clear that were those which were threatening to Berta by defending the Gualcarque river, but the investigation must be of an international commission because the government what has made is to criminalize and to try to concealing guilty", denounced Martinez. To the moment of the assassination, Caceres was releasing a battle against a project of Desa was to build a hydroelectric on the river Gualcarque, that feeds of water to indigenous communities.  The mobilizations are extended to Nicaragua and El Salvador Members of different indigenous organizations were gathered as compared to the presidential house and marched toward the Congress, where demanded to the deputies that "declare to the river motive of the dispute, national patrimony so that nobody covet their waters, as Desa and Sinohydro ( Chinese company)", that they have intended to build a hydroelectric in the affluent. The organizations clamored also by the cease of homicides. In Nicaragua, the figure of Berta Caceres was the marches and protests shaft. In this context, the social activist, Gustavo Castro Soto, Mexican witness of the assassination, he denounced in a letter that Honduran authorities altered the scene of the crime while was arrested and assured that the assassins continue free. The Mexican accused that the government intends "to present before the public opinion that the assassination of Berta was had to internal conflicts, there are demands against who had wanted to murder, linking to the hydroelectric company protected by the State". Gustavo Castro arrested on Saturday passed when was intending to return to his country, with the argument of the fact that must testify, alleges that the "threats are something that the Honduran government does not want to see and attempts to retain me to control the information of my statements". International Amnesty denounced the defects in the investigation of the assassination, and criticized the measures to those which is submitted the Mexican, whose life, runs danger because "do not exist conditions to guarantee his safety", more information in www.otrosmundoschiap. (La Jornada, mundo, p.p. 20-22, March 9, 2016).