Guatemala: 'NO!' on Honduras' phony election...

[Peace Patriot]

...but you wouldn't know it from reading "El Heraldo" (corpo-fascist rag).

Found this great web site (how did I miss it before?) of Honduran scholars speaking to us, the people of the U.S. (in English translation), to try to penetrate the lies and disinformation that we are subjected to, and report reliably on events in Honduras. They here examine an "El Heraldo" so-called 'news' article on Guatemala's firm stance against recognizing the junta-run so-called 'election' in Honduras. (The article's date is 11/21/09, prior to the election.)

http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/guatemala-will-not-recognize-elections.html

These are very sharp analysts, with a good eye for the subtler tricks of the corpo-fascist press. I was struck by this comment on the U.S.:

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"The surrealism of the pro-coup spin continues with one sad line:

"'The US maintains firm its position to recognize the process.' (--quote from the "El Heraldo" article)

"Yes indeed. Notice what has been lost in translation and left along the side of the long road down for US policy: apparently, we will recognize the elections no matter what; fraud or no fraud; violence of no violence. Of course, we have been honing our ability to recognize new governments that result from fraudulent elections while trying simultaneously to take the high moral ground recently, so maybe State will manage the miracle of recognition without approval that seems to be the new normal here."

http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/guatemala-will-not-recognize-elections.html


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Ouch!

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On the upcoming Honduran election:

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"More: this noxious little story goes on to spread the big lie that everyone in Honduras is firmly committed to going to the polls:

"'In Honduras, all the political, economic, and social sectors maintain firm their position to go to the polls the 29th of November, in the way that the Constitution of the Republic ordains.' (--quote from the "El Heraldo" article)

"Now, outside Honduras, we know that isn't true, because we have seen the letter from 300+ candidates withdrawing from congressional and local races, and the statement of the Frente de Resistencia about not participating. But of course, these do not constitute part of the 'political and social sectors' recognized by the editors of the pro-coup newspapers. But surely, some of their readers will put two and two together and wonder, if this is true, why are there those reports of the police putting together lists of people to be picked up for advocating election boycotts?"

http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/2009/11/guatemala-will-not-recognize-elections.html

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I'm glad that this latter is receiving attention from Honduran scholars and others--the "lists" that the junta has put together of junta opponents. I did an OP on the junta letter to all mayors in Honduras telling them to provide the names and addresses of all junta opponents and other community figures, prior to the election. I thought this was of OVERRIDING importance in judging the election and gaging the intentions of the junta and--alas--the intentions of the Obama administration in endorsing a junta/military-run election.

This is a fucking purge! The lives of ALL political activists and their families in Honduras are in very great danger. We knew this from the approximately one hundred who have already been killed or 'disappeared.' But it is difficult to assign specific blame in a country under martial law (except, for instance, where the military or police used live ammunition on protestors, with many witnesses). You can certainly presume blame, since these murders are all of leftist organizers. But this letter to the mayors ESTABLISHES a SYSTEM for hunting down, harassing, beating up, arresting and killing anyone and everyone who dares to speak out against the junta and its dumbshow of an 'election.' It is incontestable EVIDENCE of a purge PLAN. And the U.S. government, with Barack Obama as president, has now given leave to these horrible fascists to FINISH their purge.

As before, they probably won't kill everybody on their "lists," just sufficient numbers to terrorize and silence everyone else--while using arrest and imprisonment, beatings, torture, threats, firings from jobs and other forms of purge to reinforce the "message." Again, there have been reports of all of these forms of brutal repression since the coup began in June. But it is difficult to track many of these events to the junta. (Terror works best when its source is murky, and it has been kept murky in many instances.) The letter to the mayors provides concrete evidence of how victims are being chosen, and it is direct from the junta. (It was a letter from a top military general.) There is no other purpose for a government to be gathering lists of opponents' names and addresses BUT repression. That is NOT legitimate government information. That is the kind of evidence you need to take it to the Hague. That is the kind of evidence that our State Department should have been looking for, and should have acted upon--if it had any integrity at all. That kind of evidence is a SURE SIGN of human rights violations and egregious illegitimacy. Lists of political opponents in the hands of the military! Good God!

The State Department, of course, enabled this coup, which was planned right here, by Jim DeMint, John McCain, John Negroponte, James Baker and other Bushwhacks--as has become abundantly clear. So the Honduran junta's plans ARE the State Department's plans. THEY want Honduran leftists to be purged. That, too, is clear. And it is nothing short of appalling.

And I imagine want to extend this purge of the leftists to Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador. And I imagine that the leftist leaders of those countries know this perfectly well. And I hope they are able to maintain solidarity with each other and with the rest of Latin America in resisting it. Honduras was the US "launching pad" for Reagan's bloody repressions of the 1980s in those very countries. And Honduras is now fully re-established as the "launching pad" for the current US government's war against social justice, and against democracy itself--and possibly far worse, a regional oil war against Venezuela (which is being set up by the Pentagon in Colombia) .

The policy of "peace, respect and cooperation" that President Obama promised Latin Americans is over--gone, fini, kaput, dead in the water--if it ever was intended as sincere. If Obama was sincere, he has been overruled. (That is Chavez's view--he said Obama is "the prisoner of the Pentagon"--which may be a charitable view of Obama.)

[Judi Lynn]

1. Thanks for posting the Honduras Coup 2009 link. Hope to look through it very soon.

Getting conscientious writing is valuable, as you know. Thanks a lot.

[flamingdem]

2. good site thanks nt