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William Finnegan has an excellent article in The New Yorker about the Honduran coup. He calls it like he sees it, and it’s not pretty: repression, use of force, and the unscrupulous lust for power of the oligarchy in Honduras (not to mention the devious behind-the-scenes machinations of U.S. senator Jim DeMint, a Republican scumbag [...]

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“The Gaceta Oficial, (“Official Gazette”) of the Honduras coup regime is now freshly printed and has three new decrees and two orders restricting freedom of the press, the right to bear arms and officially strips Catholic Father Andres Tamayo of his Honduran citizenship, ordering him expelled from the country (the good Padre left for El [...]

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Properly speaking, it wasn’t a coup. The Armed Forces did nothing more than to accept the citizens tacit and/or explicit request that they intervene, take charge.
Honduras 2009? Nope: Argentina, after Isabel Perón was removed by General Videla at the start of the Dirty War…. (Quote from Jorge Daniel Paladino, Juan Perón’s former personal representative; A [...]

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Narco News got their fingers on some Honduran polling–conducted by Consultants in Investigation of Markets and Public Opinion, which the Honduran Supreme Electoral Tribunal certified in February (meaning Chavez can’t be blamed for its results)–that pretty much lays waste to the de facto government’s claims of support from the Honduran people: 53 percent of the [...]

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I’ve just been, rather belatedly, introduced to the writings of Nicholas Kozloff, a frequent contributor to the excellent Counterpunch political newsletter. Earlier this month Kozloff wrote about the connections of the Chiquita fruit company (né United Fruit) and the current political situation in Honduras. But digging deeper into his writings I came across a gem [...]

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About that 10-day ultimatum for the Brazilian embassy to throw out the rightful Honduran president, Mel Zelaya:
“Brazil will not comply with an ultimatum from a government of coup mongers,” Lula told reporters at a summit in Venezuela, adding that international law ensures the sovereignty of its embassy in Tegucigalpa. (Reuters)
So there!

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… and provoking international crises.
From the AP:
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduras’ interim government on Sunday expelled personnel from the Organization of American States looking to set up a mediation effort and gave Brazil a 10-day ultimatum to decide what to do with ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who is holed up in the Brazilian Embassy.
And attempting to [...]

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Re Zelaya holing up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa:
It is an interesting sign that Lula (Brazil’s president) was willing to make this move. Had, say, the Venezuelans (or Nicaraguans, Ecuadorans, Bolivians, or, really, almost anyone else) done it, it would have been seen as a provocation that would have unleashed a torrent of [...]

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I heard this on the radio yesterday, as I was hallucinating fever dreams during what seems to have been a bout of the swine flu: Zelaya has returned to Honduras and is taking refuge in the Brazilian embassy. What is the next step? Will Micheletti try to arrest him, as he has been vowing to [...]

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The Real News Network has Narco News‘ Al Giordano–currently in Honduras–explain the ongoing situation in that country. Giordano has a great point regarding the elections that will presumably happen in December, whether Zelaya returns to power before then or not: Nobody believes that a regime that would pull off a coup d’état won’t engage in [...]

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