Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States and member of the Democratic Party, passed away yesterday at the age of 100.<\/p>\n
As expected, a process of \"beatification\" of Carter has been launched by various voices. An example is the message from the Spanish socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez about him<\/a>: \"Jimmy Carter has been one of the leaders most committed to justice and human rights<\/strong> and will always be remembered for his defense of democracies and his dedication to Peace.\"<\/em> Another crude lie from a compulsive liar like S\u00e1nchez<\/strong>, although it is an understandable lie considering his common denominator with Carter: S\u00e1nchez maintains a friendly relationship with all kinds of dictators<\/a>.<\/p>\n I don't like speaking ill of a dead person, but I like even less the fact that people lie to whitewash the bad actions of one of the most hated presidents of the United States in the last century<\/strong>, and not only for what Carter did during his term, but also for what he did afterwards.<\/p>\n Upon arriving at the White House in 1977, Carter approved his then-secret Presidential Directive NSC-6<\/a> for a \"normalization\" of US relations with Cuba. Carter's policy of appeasement with communist dictatorships had a disastrous outcome<\/strong>, just as the British and French appeasement policy with Hitler had in 1938: during Carter's term in office, the USSR and Cuba supported related coups in Ethiopia, South Yemen and Afghanistan<\/strong>, without any US reaction.<\/p>\n In 1979, two years after arriving at the White House, Carter did the Chinese communist dictatorship a great favor by withdrawing the US regiment to Taiwan<\/a>. Theoretically, he sought to distance Beijing from the USSR's sphere of influence, but what he achieved was to increase the influence of that dictatorship in the world<\/strong>, without obtaining in return a single advance in terms of human rights.<\/p>\n That same year, Carter supported the rise to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran<\/a>, which was the beginning of an Islamic dictatorship that has been in power for 45 years<\/strong>, violating human rights and promoting terrorism on an international scale. Khomeini thanked him by storming the US Embassy in Tehran and kidnapping 66 US diplomats and citizens<\/strong> for 444 days, a kidnapping that ended up causing Carter to lose his re-election.<\/p>\n The 39th US president's attitude toward communist dictatorships went beyond mere appeasement. Carter openly favored and praised several dictators, even the most brutal ones,<\/strong> during and after his term in office:<\/p>\n The 39th US president's favors were not limited to dictators. Defying the Obama administration, in April 2008 Carter met with the top brass of the Hamas terrorist organization<\/a> and even hugged one of its leaders, Nasser al-Shaer<\/a>. \"He gave me a hug. We hugged each other and it was a warm welcome<\/strong>,\"<\/em> the terrorist leader told the Associated Press. Following that visit, in June 2009 Carter called on Obama to remove Hamas from the US list of terrorist groups<\/a>, a move the then US president rejected.<\/p>\n In recent hours, through social media, many US citizens have remembered Carter as one of the worst presidents of that country in its 248-year history<\/strong>. A president who marked his public career with favors to dictators and terrorists like those I have just mentioned. I hope that his last years were dedicated to meditating on his bad actions and the great damage they caused.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n Photo: Archivo Bettmann.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States and member of the Democratic Party, passed away yesterday at the age of 100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10375],"tags":[94,2095,828,822,11785,1445,6535,1446,1447,11043,2721,17125,17124,10923,17186,3360,10431,159,8899],"class_list":["post-58239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-cuba","tag-fidel-castro","tag-hamas","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-josip-broz-tito","tag-kim-il-sung","tag-nicolae-ceaucescu","tag-north-korea","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-republic-of-china-taiwan","tag-romania","tag-ruhollah-jomeini","tag-sadam-hussein","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-yugoslavia"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:04:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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