Honduran President Zelaya earns high marks for governance, U.S. agency scorecard shows

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http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2009/11/honduran-president-zelaya-earns-high-marks-governance-us-agency-scoreca

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3. Very dismaying--Zelaya was such a good leader, on every front!

As the article points out, Zelaya was anything but the kind of wild-eyed rogue or radical of corporate media portrayal. He had raised Honduras' scores in almost every category, of criteria devised by Corporate America and rightwing 'think tanks' (Millennium goals), with very significant improvement in some categories. Even his alliance with Chavez--in Petrocaribe--raised Honduras' scores (because he got a good oil deal for Honduras).

The article also points out that Zelaya's great performance as president of Honduras, as revealed in the Millennium report, has been completely ignored by the corporate media. One can only conclude that Corporate America is insincere in this MC effort to fund and encourage social, economic and governance progress in poor countries, and wants something else entirely. What could that be? The word "submission" comes to mind. They want poor countries to be submissive to US corporate and war profiteer agendas. It doesn't really matter to them if a poor country is well-governed. That is all lies and hypocrisy. Is it submissive? That is the crucial issue. In that respect, Zelaya's excellent record as president (which is also evidenced by his current 67% approval rating in Honduras) is cancelled out, in their view, by Zelaya's non-submissive policies, for instance, proposing that the US military base in Honduras be converted to a commercial airport, and also by his siding with the unions and the poor majority on the need for fundamental reform of Honduras' political/constitutional system. Our global corporate predators and war profiteers want "progress" that serves them--a smooth-running economic machine for the rich to make money in, and alignment with the US in its world domination schemes--but not progress that puts the majority's interests first, and that bolsters national sovereignty vs US corporate rule.

Interesting that Venezuela met all of its Millennium goals--something Chavez brags about--yet the Chavez government is universally demonized in the corporate press. The Corporate Rulers don't want good government. They want submissive government.

The Honduran "ten families" oligarchy is submissive--lords of the realm within their limited sphere, but with no real power or dignity for Honduras, vs the US and its corporate/war profiteer dictators--so they get Republicrat support here, though they egregiously violate most of the Millennium standards.

It's appalling to watch the Obama/Clinton team squirm around in this sticky corpo-fascist quicksand, trying to create the facade of "democracy" in Honduras, so that it will serve corporate predator/war profiteer ends but appear sort of Millennium-ish. 'Gee, it's TRYING. Look how they're holding a election and all!' They'll probably consign the whole period of the outfront coup (and its brutal aspects)--six months of 2009--to a footnote in their next Millennium report (which Clingon presides over). Sweep that under the carpet fast, while the "ten families" oligarchy restores the "smooth-running economic machine for the rich to make money in," and US "Roman Empire" control overall.