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Honduras: I did! I did taw a coup d’état!
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Honduras: I did! I did taw a coup d’état!
[url=http://hondurasoye.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/escalating-sexual-aggression... Sexual Aggression Against Feminist And Women Protesters Against Military Coup In Honduras Ignored By Global & National Media[/url]
John Perkins: Honduras: Military Coup Engineered By Two US Companies?
The links to the Oblahma Administration in the USA are extensive.
Honduras Newslinks 26 August
http://www.williambowles.info/americas/2009/0809/hond260809.html
The Truth About Honduras:
http://yayacanada.blogspot.com/2009/08/truth-about-honduras.html
"The Toronto Honduras Resistance website is a good place for English speakers to get updates.."
The Militarization of Latin America
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14935
"The UNASUR summit in Bariloche, Argentina will have to face two grave problems weighing heavily on Latin America: The military coup in Honduras and the militarization of the region as a result of the installation of not one but seven US military bases in Columbia..."
A Canadian delegation in solidarity with the resistance to the coup has arrived in Honduras:
"The objective of the delegation is to have a Canadian presence on the ground in Honduras to engage with various sectors of civil society that is in resistance to the de facto military regime. Upon returning to Canada, LASN will build links across Canada in support of the resistance movement in Honduras. LASN will continue its pressure on the Canadian government to end its wait-and-see attitude toward the de facto military regime and to take concrete steps to pressure the de facto regime of Roberto Micheletti to restore President Zelaya..."
[url=http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2009/08/25/honduras-rights-report-shows-need-... Rights Watch breaks its six-week silence on Honduras[/url]
[url=http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/08/united-states-involvement-in-the-coup-.... involvement in the coup[/url]
[url=http://rabble.ca/news/2009/08/eyewitness-struggle-democracy-honduras]A Canadian in Honduras: Eyewitness to the coup resistance[/url]
by Ashley Holly (rabble.ca)
Seven facts on the coup:
1. The U.S. government is implicated. That's the Obama government that all you stinking liberals still support. The US State Department admitted that they knew of the coup, in advance; the Generals that led the coup were trained in the notorious "School of the Americas"; and the links to actual members of the Obama regime are extensive. Military exchanges are still going on, as is economic aid ... and such support of the coup includes Canada as well.
2. ALBA is under siege. ALBA is the economic alliance challenging Yanqui dictat that includes Venezuela AND Honduras, among others. The US announced, even as their clients were overthrowing the democratically-elected President of Honduras, that they would be opening SEVEN new military bases in the Israel of Latin America (Colombia). Four days before the US-sponsored coup d'etat three additional governments joined ALBA.
3. The Non-binding Plebiscite was stopped. There have been quite a few lies about this plebiscite from right wing propagandists and the MSM, which would have given the citizenry a chance to express their views on the current constitution which was imposed during the oligarchy when it was the key client state of the USA in Central America.
4. The Honduran oligarchy is the big winner in the coup d'etat. As in Canada, the losses of the rich in the recent economic crisis are being socialized, ie, passed on to the rest of the population, and this needed to be continued, or even expanded, in order for Yanqui military and other aid to continue.
5. The Honduran population is resisting. Mass protest is taking place which, of course, gets scant attention from the bourgeois media which lavished gigantic attention on the disputed elections and aftermath in Iran.
6. The US media backed the coup d'etat. The despicable and repulsive lie that President Zelaya was trying to prolong his presidency was spread by the Yanqui media, and regurgitated here on babble of course by the usual suspects, along with cold war justifications and lots of constitutional double-talk justifying the coup.
7. The Obama regime in Washington promotes "negotiations" with the coup plotters, and supports them, giving them time to consolidate their atrocity.
SEVEN FACTS.
USA! USA! How many kids did you kill today??
Yesterday they came clean on the fact that they helped the [i]golpistas[/i] fly Zelaya out of Honduras:
[url=http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/09/us-suspends-some-aid-to-honduras-as.ht...[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/03/imf-hondu...
[url=http://soaw.org/presente/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=236&I... resistance goes it alone[/url] Real News video
The cure for what ails their hunger for democracy seems to be more neoliberal medicine. Saddle them with more debt while US backed elites run the country into the ground further. And our own stooges and bankster CEO's play electoral shananigans here while running up a tab on the backs of future Canadians. Crooks and liars and crooked liars everywhere.
[url=http://soaw.org][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v697/rabblerabble...
Is a FAKE ELECTION in the works in Honduras? The National Front against the coup d'etat thinks so, and condemns the militarization of Honduran society, and is appealing to other anti-coup political trends to make their positions known and to work together for the restoration of the constitutional order.
Honduras Resists blogspot
Statement by the Frente Nacional Contra El Golpe de Estado
More about IMF support of military-sponsored regime change, and not just the current one in Honduras, over here.
Pre and Post Coup Honduras
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15104
"The Frente Nacional de Resistenza is leading the courageous struggle of the Honduran people. For 70 consecutive days the people of Honduras, from all walks of life, are confronting violent repression by the military and the police. They are peacefully, with a very coherent political and increasingly sophisticated organization, putting forward their demands. These include the restoration of the constitutional order in Honduras and the return of President Zelaya. As the situation is evolving the people are more and more pressing for a constitutional assembly to refound the constitution and the nation. They are saying that whether Zelaya returns or not, this has become the objective of the on going resistance.."
[url=http://www.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/derrick/2009/09/president-zelaya-mak... returns to Honduras[/url]
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And the latest news is that the UN Security Council may get involved:
- Reuters
[url=http://www.rabble.ca/rabbletv/program-guide/2009/09/features/zelayas-ret...'s return to Honduras met with force[/url]
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[url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/811/41737]Insurrection in Honduras[/url]
I call bullshit to the premise of this headline. Lula rules down here in South America Things ain't what they used to be. Perhaps the most important event that took place recently in SA is that Brazil defeated Argentina in a soccer match. So there.
Brazil's risky role in Honduras crisis may backfire
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58M4UG20090923
For some reason, [url=http://www.rabble.ca/babble/international-news-and-politics/zelaya-retur... thread[/url] has been started on this topic.
[url=http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/weisbrot230909.html]Source[/url]
[url=http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3450/what-some-us-reporters-do... Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis[/url]
[url=http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/811/41737]Source[/url]
I read the article "What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis", and I found it interesting that Giordano mentions the tear gas canisters being used by the National Police as being stamped the property of the government of Peru.
In another thread, here http://www.rabble.ca/babble/environmental-justice/peruvian-rainforest-massacre, there is remind's post #11, which refers to "And that Obama's government just gave the Peruvian military 4.4 million dollars in arms,"
Now could there be a connection between the increase in military aid to Peru, and the evidence of military or police weapons from Peru being used against the Honduran citizens?
A little research on the Net turns up this link: http://www.usaid.gov/pe/downloads/cbjfy2009peru.pdf where there is new money requested for foreign military financing as well as the usual amounts requested for the war against drugs.
I have not found anything further to support remind's assertion of 4.4 M, but I speculate that there is a connection.
[url=http://www.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/johnbon/2009/09/supporters-call-retu... supporters of Honduran democracy rally in Toronto[/url]
So, Uribe is changing the Colombian constitution to run for a third term. Where is the outrage!? America, where are you? This evil, evil, anti-democrat is changing his country's consitution with the ascent of the people! O NOES
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aseY9jcAxAAA
Despite the fact that there was a coup d'etat in Honduras, the United States, and its minions like Great Britain, Canada, and so on, would rather participate in preparations for more atrocities in the middle east. This time it's Iran. This sabre-rattling has continued in the G-20. Fortunately, the Chinese and the Russians have slowed the Yanqui drive to war ... for the time being.
One leader, or former leader, who has done a good job of drawing attention to this problem is former Cuban President (Comrade) Fidel Castro.
A Revolution in the Making - Fidel Castro Ruz
Castro concludes:
Constitution of Honduras suspended for 45 days, (so they say).
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3465/honduras-coup-leader-micheletti-decrees-45-day-suspension-constitution
Globo Radio and Channel 36 shut down. Because Article 72 has been suspended, the freedom of the press is no longer guaranteed under the Constitution of Honduras.
http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3468/second-honduran-coup-came-today-because-first-one-failed
Suspension of human rights in Honduras by the Michelletti dictatorship.
Honduras Newslinks 27 September
http://williambowles.info/americas/2009/0909/hond270909.html
Green Party supporters debate Honduras (and rabble) here.
There are certainly some imperialists who post on the Green site.
"There are no facts in these articles, just conjecture. You are convicting Canada and the US of participating in coup based on the fully biased opinion of some dude in cahoots with Chavez. It is really not appropriate. You should be demanding a higher standard from your journalistic references. Rabble is one huge collection op-ed pieces. It is *not* reporting journalism and I question how you can be using them as a reliable source of information."
Being in cahoots with Chavez is apparently a crime to some Green supporters.
The protests are clearly having an effect:
[url=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6642068.html]- AP[/url]
Snipers Firing on Zelaya: Honduras Update
http://panafricannews.blogspot.com/2009/10/honduras-news-bulletin-sniper...
"Radio Globo reports: Snipers fire on Zelaya..
Mercenaries and paramilitaries arrive in Honduras
Urgent Take Action Now!
[url=http://www.ndp.ca/press/get-tough-on-honduras-coup-perpetrators]Get tough on Honduras coup perpetrators:[color=orange]NDP[/color][/url]
If Uncle Sam doesn't provide detailed instructions on the matter, then our stooges in Ottawa do nothing as usual.
perhaps those ARE the detailed instructions on the matter...
So if Uncle Sam is calling for Zelaya's reinstatement as president of the country and given amnesty from Michiletti's kanagaroo court accusations, then why are our old line party stooges not singing along in perfect harmony as usual?
Although nominally calling for reinstatement, clearly they have not taken any forceful or concrete steps to implement reinstalling Zelaya, which they could do in the blink of an eye if they so desired. The party stooges here are silent because Washington wants it that way.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/latin_america/july-dec09/honduras-re...
""Obama has done 'almost nothing' to help Honduras, said Eulogia Chavez, a prominent Zelaya supporter and president of the Honduran middle -school teachers union. Asked about President Obama's Nobel prize, he said, 'If you look at his attitude toward Honduras, he didn't deserve the Nobel.
It almost feels like he's more on the side of the coup leaders.."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091012/world/honduras_politics_coup
Zelaya supporters blast Honduras media crackdown
TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) - Supporters of deposed President Manuel Zelaya argued interim leaders' crackdown on opposition media could derail talks aimed at resolving the months-old political crisis.
"It is a really appalling issue, something right out of a dictatorship," said Rafael Alegria, a leading coordinator of protests against the ouster of Zelaya, the elected president.
A government decree published in the official Gazette Saturday gave authorities the right to "revoke and cancel" licenses of radio and television stations considered to be a threat to "national security" and accused of spreading "hatred."
Last month, the government of Roberto Micheletti, which came to power as the result of a June 28 military coup, already shut down Radio Globo and Channel 36 television seen as close to Zelaya and restricted freedom of assembly and movement.
The new decree gives the coup leaders legal grounds for future similar measures, according to analysts.
"The new decree is simply aimed at silencing us once and for all," said Channel 36 director Esdras Lopez. He charged that Micheletti was trying to keep the television channel for his own use.
Saturday Zelaya and the interim government agreed to create a joint cabinet and ditch an amnesty for coup leaders, one of the negotiators announced.
But the de facto government later imposed new restrictions on the media aimed at controlling the flow of information about the country's political crisis.
Meanwhile, the creation of a joint cabinet and punishment of coup leaders remain dependent on Zelaya's return to the presidency, still far from certain four months into the standoff that emerged from the coup.
Union leader Juan Barahona, one of Zelaya's top three negotiators, told a rally of hundreds of the president's followers Saturday that the joint cabinet, if indeed formed, would be made up of ministers from both governments.
A diplomatic delegation from the Organization of American States left Honduras Thursday without resolving the political impasse between Micheletti and Zelaya, who was forced out of the country at gunpoint.
A rancher known for his trademark white cowboy hat, Zelaya veered to the left after his election and alarmed conservatives by aligning himself with leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. They feared Zelaya was seeking to change the constitution to allow himself to seek reelection.
The Zelaya camp, Barahona added, opposed amnesty because such a move would mean "amnesia, forgetfulness and forgiveness, and we cannot condone the coup.
Talks are set to resume Tuesday, with OAS diplomats maintaining that progress has been made, though the key issues have not yet been addressed.
"If after all of this, they say that there is not going to be reinstatement (of Zelaya), what difference does it make if we made progress on anything else?" Barahona asked. "Tuesday, we are going to get at that key point in detail. If on October 15 we do not have a deal, the talks will have failed."
[url=http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/global-resistance-local-acti...
Thread drift/ The coup isn't effecting their football. Honduras has qualified as the third CONCACAF team for the World Cup./ end thread drift
From [url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1932100,00.html]TIME:[/url]
A vacation in Honduras can conjure up visions of spectacular destinations: the Mayan ruins of Copán, cloud forest after cloud forest filled with exotic flora and fauna, the gorgeous beaches and the dolphin-filled waters off the island of Roatán. But that's not what tourist-industry reporters saw when the country's Minister of Tourism, Ricardo Martínez, presented a video at a recent convention in neighboring El Salvador. With a sound track of revolutionary music, it showed supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya clashing with riot police in the streets of the capital, Tegucigalpa.
Martínez, [b]who was ousted from the government along with Zelaya after the country's June 28 coup d'état,[/b] was apologetic but unflinching about showing the video. "I'd like to tell everyone to come to Honduras and that it's a tranquil place and everything is beautiful, but you think I'd be successful with that message?" he says. "Of course not."...
Tourism was the country's main economic motor, but since the coup, says Martínez, Honduras' tourism industry - which grew by a robust 9% in 2008 - has plummeted 70%. The 7% tourism growth projections for 2009 are now expected to dip into the red. And the 155,000 Hondurans employed by the tourism industry are, in the words of Martínez, "suffering violently." Several TACA airlines flights to Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, which used to bring hundreds of tourists to Honduras every day, have been canceled. A project to build an international airport at the Copán ruins was suspended, and charter groups from Europe are backing out. [b]Overall, it is estimated that Honduras' economy has been set back 10 years over the past three months.[/b]
[url=http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/10/report-from-day-1-of-la-voz-... from Day 1 of La Voz de los de Abajo Hondouras Delegation[/url]
[url=http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/10/day-two-report-of-la-voz-de-... Two Report of La Voz de los de Abajo Human Rights Delegation in Honduras[/url]
[url=http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/10/day-three-report-of-la-voz-d... Three Report of La Voz de los de Abajo Delegation to Honduras[/url]
Honduras rivals resolve deadlock
The interim leader of Honduras says he is ready to sign a pact to end its crisis which could include the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Roberto Micheletti said the agreement would create a power-sharing government and require both sides to recognise the result of November's presidential poll.
Mr Zelaya said the deal, which requires the approval of the Supreme Court and Congress, would be signed on Friday.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8333210.stm
US-backed fascists in Honduras just needed to buy some time to [url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/19/1646201/Computerized-Election-Re... the next election[/url]
[url=http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/10/negotiation-is-in-streets-da... negotiation is in the streets: A day of resistance and repression[/url]
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And the Winner in Honduras is...the United States
http://www.counterpunch.org/shansky11052009.html
"Despite coup leader Roberto Micheletti's claims that his de-facto government has made 'significant concessions' in the accords, the real concession has been made from the other side. These are the basic terms both sides have agreed to:.."
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