cyu
26th April 2010, 08:41
Remember back when all those pro-capitalists were denying a coup happened in Honduras and that everything happened was legit? Such a joke given the latest news...
Excerpts from http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&id=31&jumival=4977
Since the inauguration of Pepe Lobo as the president of Honduras on January 27, the US State Department has been the new government's most vocal supporter, urging the region to follow the US lead in restoring relations with the Honduran government
in the month of February alone more than 50 illegal detentions, eight cases of torture, two kidnappings, and two rapes, all carried out against members of the coup resistance. It also highlighted some of the recent political assassinations.
a lot of people think that since Pepe Lobo is in power that there's been some kind of resolution to what they're calling the crisis in Honduras, which is, of course, a military coup that led to a de facto military government which has been killing people right and left since last June. None of that has changed. If anything, it's intensified since Pepe Lobo has come to power. We've seen over ten people killed since Pepe Lobo was put in power... We're seeing the same tactics that were used by Battalion 3-16, which was the infamous death squad in the 1980s. This was a battalion whose members were trained by the CIA, many of whom also went to the School of the Americas [now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation] for training and torture techniques. And the same techniques are being used today: people are being disappeared; they're being tortured; they're being assassinated, executed; they're having their hands tied behind their back. It's hard to quantify the horror. But what's particularly horrifying, I think, is that children of resistance leaders—and, again, nonviolent resistance leaders—are being targeted and assassinated to send a clear message to people to cease their peaceful and democratic resistance. Among the people who were assassinated was Claudia Brizuela, who was murdered in her own home. She's the daughter of a very important resistance leader, Pedro Brizuela.
Pepe Lobo came to power in a completely illegitimate election under militarized circumstances, in which freedoms of speech and assembly and the press had been all suspended, in elections that were marked by violence.
the Honduran electoral tribunal consciously misrepresented their own data to inflate the turnout numbers. This story has since been confirmed by numerous outlets, including CNN and AFP. The inflated turnout number was repeatedly referenced by Washington and others to suggest a majority of Honduran saw the election as a way out of the crisis.
The two key leaders of the coup and the repression that followed it, military leader Romeo Vasquez Velasquez and civilian leader Roberto Micheletti, have both been rewarded for their actions... Micheletti has been named as a congressman for life, a position that does not exist under the Honduran Constitution.
Excerpts from http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&id=31&jumival=4977
Since the inauguration of Pepe Lobo as the president of Honduras on January 27, the US State Department has been the new government's most vocal supporter, urging the region to follow the US lead in restoring relations with the Honduran government
in the month of February alone more than 50 illegal detentions, eight cases of torture, two kidnappings, and two rapes, all carried out against members of the coup resistance. It also highlighted some of the recent political assassinations.
a lot of people think that since Pepe Lobo is in power that there's been some kind of resolution to what they're calling the crisis in Honduras, which is, of course, a military coup that led to a de facto military government which has been killing people right and left since last June. None of that has changed. If anything, it's intensified since Pepe Lobo has come to power. We've seen over ten people killed since Pepe Lobo was put in power... We're seeing the same tactics that were used by Battalion 3-16, which was the infamous death squad in the 1980s. This was a battalion whose members were trained by the CIA, many of whom also went to the School of the Americas [now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation] for training and torture techniques. And the same techniques are being used today: people are being disappeared; they're being tortured; they're being assassinated, executed; they're having their hands tied behind their back. It's hard to quantify the horror. But what's particularly horrifying, I think, is that children of resistance leaders—and, again, nonviolent resistance leaders—are being targeted and assassinated to send a clear message to people to cease their peaceful and democratic resistance. Among the people who were assassinated was Claudia Brizuela, who was murdered in her own home. She's the daughter of a very important resistance leader, Pedro Brizuela.
Pepe Lobo came to power in a completely illegitimate election under militarized circumstances, in which freedoms of speech and assembly and the press had been all suspended, in elections that were marked by violence.
the Honduran electoral tribunal consciously misrepresented their own data to inflate the turnout numbers. This story has since been confirmed by numerous outlets, including CNN and AFP. The inflated turnout number was repeatedly referenced by Washington and others to suggest a majority of Honduran saw the election as a way out of the crisis.
The two key leaders of the coup and the repression that followed it, military leader Romeo Vasquez Velasquez and civilian leader Roberto Micheletti, have both been rewarded for their actions... Micheletti has been named as a congressman for life, a position that does not exist under the Honduran Constitution.