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Monthly Review
03-13-2016, 02:31 PM
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2016/images/BertaCaceres.jpg Just a week before the debate, Berta Cáceres, the prominent indigenous rights activist and winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize for 2015, was murdered in her home in Honduras. In an interview shortly before the killing, Cáceres had told the leftist Italian publication Il Manifesto: "We are caught in the sights of hired assassins, judicial and armed. Our lives hang from a thread." New York University professor Greg Grandin argued eloquently in The Nation that Clinton shares the blame for this assassination. "All people of goodwill," he wrote, should ask Clinton "if she is still proud of the hell she helped routinize in Honduras." This is certainly a question Sanders should have asked in Miami. Hopefully the senator will raise these issues in the future , but those of us looking for an honest dialogue on the way U.S. foreign policy impacts immigration should realize we can' t count on politicians to give it to us. It's up to us to make it happen.

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