Killing Organizers in Honduras

[Octafish]

The War Party at work with your tax dollars:

January 5, 2010

Left to Fend for Themselves

Killing Organizers in Honduras

By JOSEPH SHANSKY
CounterPunch
Jan. 5, 2010

The bodies of slain activists are piling up in Honduras. While it's being kept quiet in most Honduran and international media, the rage is building among a dedicated network of friends spreading the word quickly with the tragic announcement of each compañero/a.

Now that the world heard from mainstream news outlets such as the New York Times of a “clean and fair” election on Nov. 29 (orchestrated by the US-supported junta currently in power), the violence has increased even faster than feared.

The specific targets of these killings have been those perceived as the biggest threats to the coup establishment. The bravest, and thus the most vulnerable: Members of the Popular Resistance against the coup. Their friends and family. People who provide the Resistance with food and shelter. Teachers, students, and ordinary citizens who simply recognize the fallacy of an un-elected regime taking over their country. All associated with the Resistance have faced constant and growing repercussions for their courage in protesting the coup. With the international community given the green light by the US that democratic order has returned via elections, it’s open season for violent forces in Honduras working to tear apart the political unity of the Resistance Front against the coup.

The killings are happening almost faster than they can be recorded.

On Sunday, Dec. 7, a group of six people were gunned down while walking down the street in the Villanueva neighborhood of Tegucigalpa. According to sources, a white van with no license plates stopped in front of the group. Four masked men jumped out of the van and forced the group to get on the ground, where they were shot. The five victims who were killed were:

· Marcos Vinicio Matute Acosta, 39

· Kennet Josué Ramírez Rosa, 23

· Gabriel Antonio Parrales Zelaya, 34

· Roger Andrés Reyes Aguilar, 22

· Isaac Enrique Soto Coello, 24

One woman, Wendy Molina, 32, was shot several times and played dead when one of the assassins pulled her hair, checking to see if anyone in the group was still alive. She was taken to the hospital and survived.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/shansky01052010.html

Honduras is South America, right?

[SharonAnn]

1. Actually, Honduras is Central America.

[Octafish]

2. Of course. Right. I was thinking: ''Guatemala.''

Glorious Victory

Thanks for understanding, SharonAnn!

[Arctic Dave]

3. Too bad we can't send arms to them.

I'm all for peaceful solutions but sometimes you do have to defend yourself from your "government".

[anonymous171]

5. I agree completely. The right wingers in Central America are terrible

They don't care if you are a priest, child, or nun. If you stand in their way, they will kill you. Faced with those facts, I think armed resistance would be justified.

[Octafish]

6. At first, the USA stood up to the fascist coup in Honduras.

Then, more "rational" heads prevailed...

U.S. State Department Sells Out Honduran Democracy for Senate Confirmations

Meaning: To get along. we must go along... with the likes of Jim DeMint.

[MinM]

15. Jim DeMint's Coup?

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/10/jim_demints_cou/


:dem: and R

[MinM]

16. Jim DeMint's Propaganda on Honduran Election

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x27291
http://blog.reidreport.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/DeMint-Republicans-300x213.jpg
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/12/31/820788/-Bring-it-on-Dick-Cheney-and-Jim-DeMint

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/04/jim-demint-still-standing_n_410204.html

[Octafish]

17. You want propaganda? Here's some propaganda...

Project ZIPPER - Propaganda Backgrounder

Information Control for Social Manipulation

Can't yet vouch for either of the above as Sources, but what they spout is spot-on.



Thanks, MinM. Your understanding gives me hope for change and yada yada yada.

[G_j]

4. If there was a sign of real HOPE in recent history

it may have been in the global south, with age old RW governments losing to the left.
I wish the US would support that vision. Instead, we still stand behind the RW, such as in Columbia.

[Octafish]

7. You know who Wall Street backs in Columbia?

Former NYSE head Richard Grasso embraces FARC official Raul Reyes (recently deceased)

The Real Deal: The Ultimate New Business Cold Call

Monday, 18 February 2002, 10:13 am
Column: Catherine Austin Fitts

Narco-Dollars For Dummies (Part 3)
How The Money Works In The Illicit Drug Trade
Part 3 in a 13 Part Series
By Catherine Austin Fitts
First published in the Narco News Bulletin

A Real World Example:
NYSE's Richard Grasso and the Ultimate New Business "Cold Call"

Lest you think that my comment about the New York Stock Exchange is too strong, let's look at one event that occurred before our "war on drugs" went into high gear through Plan Colombia, banging heads over narco dollar market share in Latin America.

In late June 1999, numerous news services, including Associated Press, reported that Richard Grasso, Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange flew to Colombia to meet with a spokesperson for Raul Reyes of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), the supposed "narco terrorists" with whom we are now at war.

The purpose of the trip was "to bring a message of cooperation from U.S. financial services" and to discuss foreign investment and the future role of U.S. businesses in Colombia.

Some reading in between the lines said to me that Grasso's mission related to the continued circulation of cocaine capital through the US financial system. FARC, the Colombian rebels, were circulating their profits back into local development without the assistance of the American banking and investment system. Worse yet for the outlook for the US stock market's strength from $500 billion - $1 trillion in annual money laundering - FARC was calling for the decriminalization of cocaine.

To understand the threat of decriminalization of the drug trade, just go back to your Sam and Dave estimate and recalculate the numbers given what decriminalization does to drive BIG PERCENT back to SLIM PERCENT and what that means to Wall Street and Washington's cash flows. No narco dollars, no reinvestment into the stock markets, no campaign contributions.

It was only a few days after Grasso's trip that BBC News reported a General Accounting Office (GAO) report to Congress as saying: "Colombia's cocaine and heroin production is set to rise by as much as 50 percent as the U.S. backed drug war flounders, due largely to the growing strength of Marxist rebels"

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0202/S00069.htm

It's no secret: Uncle Sam stands behind the same RW that can afford to buy its friends.

[laughingliberal]

8. Are we never going to move beyond the horrors of the 80's?

Still playing with the same RW dictator types and looking the other way while they depose democratically elected leftists.

[Octafish]

18. ¡Golpe!

Honduran riot police have met unarmed anti-coup protestors with beatings, chemicals, and in some cases even live rounds.



From the Earth Island Institute's Journal:

¡Golpe!

Last Summer’s Right-Wing Coup in Honduras Still Threatens Human Rights and the Environment

By Jeremy Kryt
Earth Island Institute Journal
Winter 2010, Vol. 24, No. 4

The farmers had been barricaded inside the National Agricultural Institute, in the heart of downtown Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for more than three months. There were almost a hundred of them, including women and children, sleeping in the offices and cooking on wood fires in the courtyard. When I visited, in September of 2009, a spokesperson for the Workers Union of the National Agricultural Institute (NIA) said they had peacefully occupied their own offices as an act of protest against the military coup that toppled the government last June. The farmers hoped to protect ownership titles and other important paperwork against what they called “a land-hungry illegal regime.” And so they had camped out in their makeshift bunker, taking turns with the chores, and guarding the gate against police and soldiers – determined to hold out until the nation’s democratically elected president, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, was returned to office, and Constitutional order was restored.

“We are struggling for the heart of the country,” said Ramon Navarro, leader of one of the farmers’ unions, after telling me that authorities had already cut off water and electricity to the building. “In these central offices are located more than 700 files with documents belonging to farmers and small business owners.” Navarro wore boots and jeans, with a knife and cell phone in twin holsters on his belt. “We know the putschists have the power to void these documents. We’re here to find a solution, and to protect the only proof of ownership we have.”

The farmers had called a press conference that morning because they feared police were getting ready to storm the institute. A harsh, nationwide crackdown was underway, and several trucks filled with heavily armed officers had been spotted near the compound. A few blocks away, the riot squad had detained a peaceful, anti-coup protest march.

Someone Must Defend the Earth

The trouble in Honduras started when President Zelaya was kidnapped by soldiers and flown into exile on June 28, 2009 – a move backed by local business and political elites, but condemned unanimously by the international community. Under threat of arrest, Zelaya had slipped back into the country in late September, taking refuge in the Brazilian Embassy. But by then his role in the anti-coup resistance had become largely symbolic. Under the auspices of a controversial US-mediated peace plan that went into effect on October 30, the coup-regime was granted political legitimacy. The previously scheduled presidential elections were authorized to go forward, with far-right, coup-friendly candidate Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo ahead in the polls. Meanwhile, Honduras continued to devolve into a police state.

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http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/golpe/

Thanks for understanding what it's all about, laughingliberal! These fascist gangsters want to re-introduce slavery on a global scale.

[malaise]

9. Central America

More Shock Doctrine

[EFerrari]

10. Central America -- easy pickings.

[EFerrari]

11. Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama are turning a blind eye

to torture, rape, disappearances and murder.

I don't know how to say that more clearly.

[glitch]

12. It's horrible and depressing.

I am finally reading The Shock Doctrine, after listening to tons of talks by Naomi Klein I thought I pretty much knew all I needed and didn't need to actually read the details. I was wrong. Everybody needs to read this book, it is much, much, much worse than we think.

[leftstreet]

13. K&R

[maryf]

14. k&r nt