Corporate Apologists Know Their Job Re Honduran Coup
Chavez, Lula, Obama Make Honduras Unstable
"Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- If Honduras descends into civil war, we can thank Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and credit Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with an assist.
Pushing the Central American nation to the brink is precisely what Chavez accomplished when he persuaded Lula to welcome ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital, last month.
Reasonable people can argue whether Zelaya deserved to be tossed out of office. The fact is his ouster was legal, according to a detailed report issued by the U.S. Congressional Research Service."
Well, it's Bloomberg, after all. And this Alexandre Marinis fellow seems to sit squarely at the feet of authoritarianism, as in another piece he gushes not to worry about all the problematic slum people in Rio during the 2016 Olympics because the Brazilian military will be in the streets "sporting assault weapons and tanks".
But the whole premise of this lofty load of crap is that the corporate backed thugs who muscle their way into power should be left alone to make the trains run on time, because democracy is just a little too messy and all that. How dare other countries oppose the US backed coup when it's legitimacy is guaranteed by, well, the US. Lula and Chavez are "acting unethically" in opposing the thugs, they aren't "serious diplomats" and are engaging in "wise guy diplomacy" he sniffs.
This is how fascism operates - seize what you want and then pretend to take the legitimate high ground while your flunkies and flacks invent all kinds of apologies to justify muscling in. It happened in Florida in 2000, it's happening in the occupied territories, they did it in Iraq in 2003. And almost did it in Venezuela in 2002 which gives Chavez a quite valid role in this drama. Media stooges can sniff all they want about supposed legitimacy; the history is plain about the Honduran putsch, the reasons for it very obvious and Marinis is just another spin doctor in a long line of fascist bootlickers.
The coup
"On June 28th in the early morning President Zelaya was awoken to four gunshots. Kidnapped by a general, two colonels and 200 soldiers on the eve of the referendum vote, he was taken at gunpoint in his pajamas and flown to Costa Rica. That morning the coup planners followed through with their takeover of the government with electrical blackouts across the major cities and the shutting down of phone and cellular services.
The right wing media owners played cartoons or music rather than report the news that morning. The public television station and other TV and radio stations that supported Zelaya were shutdown. Roberto Micheletti, formerly president of congress and a newspaper owner, was sworn in as president. Judges filed 18 trumped up charges against Zelaya and a phony letter of resignation was presented to the media in an effort to make the military overthrow seem legitimate. People took to the streets in protests but the military had set up barricades and checkpoints on the major roads.
A curfew was enacted which the police and military have used to capture Zelaya cabinet members, social justice activists and journalists during home raids. CNN and most other international journalists have been kicked out of the country. Telesur journalists were beat up, threatened and told to leave but have taken refuge at the Venezuelan Embassy. The local media is only reporting propaganda in support of the new regime while also minimizing coverage of protests for the return of Zelaya.
The Prensa, a major daily newspaper, went so far as to Photoshop the blood and bullet wounds out of a picture of Isis Murillo, 19, a protestor shot dead by the military at the airport where many others were wounded when Zelaya attempted to fly into Tegucigalpa only to be blocked by military vehicles on the runway. Two social activists were murdered last weekend one of them was Representative Roger Bados of the Democratic Union (UD) party, who was taken from a bus by the military and shot dead, his sister also wounded. In total seven have been verified killed by the military and two disappeared perhaps to unmarked graves with rumors of more still pending verification by international observers.
This is not what a democratic or constitutional government looks or acts like. The perpetrators of this coup are terrorists. The military historically has been independent of the government with strong US influence despite the constitution placing Zelaya as its head. The generals, backed by international and local business leaders, hatched the coup out of greed, racism and increasing their personal wealth and power. President Zelaya was elected in 2005 on a law-and-order platform by the Liberal Party, which is the equivalent of the US Democratic Party, as a center-left member of the political elite."
"Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- If Honduras descends into civil war, we can thank Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and credit Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with an assist.
Pushing the Central American nation to the brink is precisely what Chavez accomplished when he persuaded Lula to welcome ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital, last month.
Reasonable people can argue whether Zelaya deserved to be tossed out of office. The fact is his ouster was legal, according to a detailed report issued by the U.S. Congressional Research Service."
Well, it's Bloomberg, after all. And this Alexandre Marinis fellow seems to sit squarely at the feet of authoritarianism, as in another piece he gushes not to worry about all the problematic slum people in Rio during the 2016 Olympics because the Brazilian military will be in the streets "sporting assault weapons and tanks".
But the whole premise of this lofty load of crap is that the corporate backed thugs who muscle their way into power should be left alone to make the trains run on time, because democracy is just a little too messy and all that. How dare other countries oppose the US backed coup when it's legitimacy is guaranteed by, well, the US. Lula and Chavez are "acting unethically" in opposing the thugs, they aren't "serious diplomats" and are engaging in "wise guy diplomacy" he sniffs.
This is how fascism operates - seize what you want and then pretend to take the legitimate high ground while your flunkies and flacks invent all kinds of apologies to justify muscling in. It happened in Florida in 2000, it's happening in the occupied territories, they did it in Iraq in 2003. And almost did it in Venezuela in 2002 which gives Chavez a quite valid role in this drama. Media stooges can sniff all they want about supposed legitimacy; the history is plain about the Honduran putsch, the reasons for it very obvious and Marinis is just another spin doctor in a long line of fascist bootlickers.
The coup
"On June 28th in the early morning President Zelaya was awoken to four gunshots. Kidnapped by a general, two colonels and 200 soldiers on the eve of the referendum vote, he was taken at gunpoint in his pajamas and flown to Costa Rica. That morning the coup planners followed through with their takeover of the government with electrical blackouts across the major cities and the shutting down of phone and cellular services.
The right wing media owners played cartoons or music rather than report the news that morning. The public television station and other TV and radio stations that supported Zelaya were shutdown. Roberto Micheletti, formerly president of congress and a newspaper owner, was sworn in as president. Judges filed 18 trumped up charges against Zelaya and a phony letter of resignation was presented to the media in an effort to make the military overthrow seem legitimate. People took to the streets in protests but the military had set up barricades and checkpoints on the major roads.
A curfew was enacted which the police and military have used to capture Zelaya cabinet members, social justice activists and journalists during home raids. CNN and most other international journalists have been kicked out of the country. Telesur journalists were beat up, threatened and told to leave but have taken refuge at the Venezuelan Embassy. The local media is only reporting propaganda in support of the new regime while also minimizing coverage of protests for the return of Zelaya.
The Prensa, a major daily newspaper, went so far as to Photoshop the blood and bullet wounds out of a picture of Isis Murillo, 19, a protestor shot dead by the military at the airport where many others were wounded when Zelaya attempted to fly into Tegucigalpa only to be blocked by military vehicles on the runway. Two social activists were murdered last weekend one of them was Representative Roger Bados of the Democratic Union (UD) party, who was taken from a bus by the military and shot dead, his sister also wounded. In total seven have been verified killed by the military and two disappeared perhaps to unmarked graves with rumors of more still pending verification by international observers.
This is not what a democratic or constitutional government looks or acts like. The perpetrators of this coup are terrorists. The military historically has been independent of the government with strong US influence despite the constitution placing Zelaya as its head. The generals, backed by international and local business leaders, hatched the coup out of greed, racism and increasing their personal wealth and power. President Zelaya was elected in 2005 on a law-and-order platform by the Liberal Party, which is the equivalent of the US Democratic Party, as a center-left member of the political elite."
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