US Apparently Unconcerned About Americans Trapped in Yemen

Posted on April 15, 2015

by Richard Edmondson

While Russia has sent a ship to Yemen to evacuate its own citizens (and even some Americans, as the above video mentions) US citizens trapped in Yemen have received little to no help from their own government. This is actually not an unprecedented situation. If you’re not familiar with it, you might be interested in the story of Charles Horman, a US journalist who was trapped in Chile as the US carried out a coup in 1973.

Horman and fellow journalist Frank Teruggi, also American, were seized by Chilean soldiers and murdered, possibly with the knowledge or involvement of US officials. You can go here to see an interview with Horman’s widow conducted in 2013. A considerable amount of evidence that has come out in the 40-plus years since the coup, would suggest US complicity in the murder of its own citizens.

All of which kind of leads me to conclude–that if I were trapped in some country somewhere undergoing a violent coup, civil war, or some other vicious bloodletting of some sort, the US Embassy is probably the last place I would try and seek help.

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