People unclear on the concept - Honduras
I am very interested in low-power FM and starting a station here when the FCC opens licensing again.
One group that is very active in this is the
Prometheus Radio Project
While I can respect a person's beliefs, I do require a knowledge of the facts regardless of viewpoint and it is a shame to see them spouting the Marxist party line on their website.
Specifically:
People Gather to learn about Honduran Coup, Corporate Media Lies and Grassroots Resistance
On June 30, 2009, a military coup ousted the democratically elected government of Honduras and president Manuel Zelaya. In response to a proliferation of misinformation in the corporate media concerning this coup, the Prometheus Radio Project along with local immigrant organizing group, Juntos, and the news website, Upside Down World, hosted an event at the Philadelphia Library to offer an alternative perspective. The event entitled "Community Media in times of popular struggle, political mobilization, and repression- from Venezuela to Oaxaca to Honduras" featured Adrienne Pine, a militant anthropologist, assistant professor at American University in D.C., and the author of "Working Hard, Drinking Hard, on Violence and Survival in Honduras", Ramor Ryan, an Irish anarchist writer who lives in Chiapas, Mexico and reports on popular struggle, and Prometheus’ own Cory Fischer- Hoffman and Andy Gunn.
The facts:
- Manuel Zelaya was elected president.
- The Honduran constitution allows for two terms in office.
- Zelaya wanted to become "President for Life" so he introduced legislation to allow for an open-ended term of office. This was to be voted on by the Honduran people.
- No printing company in Honduras would produce these ballots.
- Zelaya had his friend and political ally Chavez print the ballots.
- At this time, the military stepped in and removed Zelaya from office.
- At the time they did this, they also raided his offices and found computers with the election results already tabulated showing a majority of voters wanting to keep Zelaya in office.
- There are protesters in Honduras urging Zelaya's reinstatement but they are all Union and will be paid off if he returns. This echos Obama's connections to organized labor in the USA.
Chavez is running a bread and circuses scam in Venezuela draining the net worth of the nation and putting it into feel-good programs for the people and not using it to build infrastructure or schools. Now that oil prices have come off the bubble from last year, he is starting to hurt for money and is instituting price controls. The upshot of this is that Venezuela now imports coffee and has nationalized swaths of major industries.
Zelaya wants to turn Honduras into another workers paradise but while Venezuela gets about 50% of it's total economy from oil exports (
GDP per person of about $13K), Honduras is not so well off (second poorest nation in Central America and a
GDP per person of about $4K).
Simply put, Honduras just does not have the cash to support a dictator and a Marxist form of government. It is a tragedy that people cannot open their eyes and see the truth...
Posted by DaveH at August 9, 2009 3:11 PM
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