Monday, December 07, 2009
Honduran elections exposed
The Real News Network
December 7, 2009
"There is wide agreement that last week's presidential election in Honduras..." begins an editorial in Saturday's New York Times, "...was clean and fair." The editorial gives no hint as to whom all these people are that are in agreement, except for the 'official' data from the same regime that overthrew the elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, at gunpoint. The Times joins governments, commentators and editorial pages around the world that have fallen victim to the 'official' coup data. But, as this video shows, the proof of the fraud was sitting out in the open the whole time.
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hi, i like your blog....it helps me as a politic science student that will choose latin america as my major...
Glad the blog could be of use. I'll update it as often as I'm able.
Best,
Justin
Can't the NYT separate themselves a bit from US State Department policy goals? I mean, they have to be aware of the months of brutal repression and media repression.
It is quite interesting to juxtapose Honduras to Iran: across the establishment political spectrum, the pundits decried the repression in Iran, while the accept the supression of democracy in a comprador client state.
This is the same hypocrisy we see from the Times for decades now--and, indeed, Noam Chomsky has doumented this for decades. That the liberal Democrats also have a tendency to downplay this so as to not criticize Obama doesn't bode well. If this had been Bush or McLame they would be on this like flies on shit.
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