Comments on: Surreal Honduras: Putting the Narrative Together in the Local Press

By: B99

B99 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:04:16 +0000

Wendy – “As long as Chavez is in power there will never be change for the better throughout the region.”

And so how many hundreds of years do you expect people to wait for change for the better?

By: B99

B99 — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:00:27 +0000

Mary – I was wondering when Obama would flip on the illigitimacy of the coup. And there you have it. Or as Orwell would have had it.

By: mary

mary — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:19:09 +0000

The word from Washington -

‘The military coup that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya last month should serve as a “lesson” for Zelaya to steer clear of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution and President Hugo Chavez, according to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley.

In a press conference on Monday, Cowley stated, “We certainly think that if we were choosing a model government and a model leader for countries of the region to follow, that the current leadership in Venezuela would not be a particular model. If that is the lesson that President Zelaya has learned from this episode, that would be a good lesson.”‘

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/4652

By: Honeybelle

Honeybelle — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:35:15 +0000

Dear Windy,

You are a master of Dada agitprop and a dreamboat of improvisational facting. You also show a healthy disdain for spell check and a drug free environment. Your Rabelaisian catalog of altruist perfidy had me laughing so hard my attendant came over and tighten my straight jacket and leather mask. Taking into account my present cocktail of medications, I agree with everything you hallucinated. Its obvious that we share the same pathologies including self-loathing and paranoia. We are soul mates. If you ever come into town, look me up. I’d like to share a jolt of electro-shock and a syringe of thorazine with you and just talk.

Piece of Earth
Honeybelle

By: mary

mary — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:21:59 +0000

Totally ignoring the previous nonsensical comment, I am copying an e-mail that has been sent to the head of BBC News, Helen Boadem, by a contributor on medialens.org. There are other comments about Honduras currently on their message board – http://www.medialens.org/board/

Dear Ms Boaden.

This morning on BBC radio 4 news I heard the coup leaders in Honduras described as an “interim government”. I also heard the legitimate President Zelaya described as the “former President”. I find this strange and a complete twist of the truth. First the current rulers in Honduras seized power via the use of armed forces. They illegally kidnapped the democraticaly elected President and forced him by gunpoint to leave the country. Then without an election installed a puppet President. This can hardly be descibed to be an “interim government” (by implication giving it some legitimacy) It is an illegal government which has not been recognised by one single country. Why does the BBC not refer to this in its broadcasts? Why does the BBC not describe them as an illegal government?

Secondly Mr Zeleya is the legitimate elected President of Honduras as recognised by every country in the world so how can the BBC refer to him as a “former President” ? he is not former anything he is The President.

One can see through the BBC agenda here in trying to distort the truth and facts of the situation. The BBC has not reported on the mass general strikes and peaceful demonstrations demanding the return of President Zelaya although it has given space to a small anti Zelaya demonstration (which flopped).

This is confirmation once more of how the BBC is endemically anti-left in its news coverage.

Yours faithfully

(RMS)

The BBC obtain their stance from the Foreign Office, who in turn get their instructions from Washington.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:52:59 +0000

Venezuela’s dictator Huge-0 Chavez is a cancer to Latin America, and as long as he is in power there will never be change for the better throughout the region, including Honduras. While he lives it up everyday in his presidential palace with gold-plated toilet seats, the people are lucky to survive on $5/day, and there has been a mass exodus from this troubled country so people can find a place to live in freedom. Anybody who challenges Chavez ends up losing as the elections are fixed in his favor, and he has amended the Venezuelan Constitution so he can remain president for life. This country sadly doesn’t belong to the people. He is a madman, and needs to be dumped from office.

Hopefully the people will stand up for themselves and their beautiful country and throw him out themselves. After that, Chavez can go spend time with his only admirer, Cindy ‘attention wh0re’ $heehan. She has so much free time on her hands because she doesn’t have a real job. She brings in thousands of dollars in speaking fees, spewing her juvenile garbage. She was seen as a mourning mother at first, but it is clear that her only concern was making profits, making her no different from the BushCo war-profiteers she criticizes. There is also $300,000 missing from her campaign funds back from when she ran against Pelosi (and lost BADLY). She just took the money and ran with it, because she finally realized the media was bored with her and she had been reduced to irrelevancy with Bush out of office.

Thank you to Dissident Voice for not publishing her garbage anymore. Guess this fine website saw through her when she landed a radio show on Green 960 AM here in the Bay Area, owned by (gasp) ClearChannel, which is part of the main stream corporate media she likes to attack. Can you say hypocrite?

I hope Honduras has a bright future, unlike Venezuela, which will never rebound as long as they are ruled by the Furhrer Chavez.

Peace on Earth.
Wendy