"EMERGENCY POWERS!"
As you see from the caption, it's also far better in Peru, because the
Bush-boot-licking Alan Garcia made a promise! Well, so did Hugo Chavez, but that's just not acceptable with our corporate media, and they're the ones we rely on for our White House-approved propaganda.
Last Updated: Saturday, 28 April 2007, 06:31 GMT 07:31 UK
Peru leader gets emergency powers
By Dan Collyns
BBC News, Lima
Mr Garcia has promised not
to abuse the powers
Peru's parliament has granted emergency powers to President Alan Garcia in order to deal with drug trafficking and organised crime.
Congress overwhelmingly approved the move but around 20 Congressmen walked out of the session before the vote.
President Garcia has promised not to abuse the powers, which are valid for the next 60 days.
He will only have the power to rule by decree on nine specific types of crime, most of which relate to trafficking.
More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6602551.stmApparently it's all clean and on the up-and-up when the President serves U.S. corporate interests, but it couldn't be worse when the President serves his own people first, just as you pointed out.
Interestingly enough, Alan Garcia ALSO REJECTED RENEWAL OF TWO RADIO STATIONS, AND THREE TELEVISION STATIONS in April, 2007. Where's the screeching from the right-wing controlled corporate media on this?
Info. not getting any play on Uribe's position on radio/tv:
In neighbouring Colombia, which has been in the grip of civil war for nearly half a century, journalist Juan Gossaín with the RCN Radio station said in an interview with President Álvaro Uribe: "Your remarks on respect for freedom of the press lead me to suppose, for example, that you would not strip RCTV of its broadcasting licence."
To which the president responded: "I would not do that to anybody. Or rather, let them exercise journalism even without a licence; they can say whatever they want; they can operate wherever they want."
But the rightwing Uribe cannot shut down opposition TV stations for the simple reason that there aren't any, by contrast with Venezuela, where most privately-owned media outlets are openly opposed to the government.
Earlier, however, in October 2004, the Uribe administration closed the public Instituto de Radio y Televisión (Inravisión), which broadcast on three stations. Its programming included educational and cultural content, a daily interview programme on social movements, and documentaries that were often awkward for the government.
The president made the announcement about Inravisión on a Monday, and the following Thursday "the police came in and evicted the employees that same day," Milciades Vizcaíno, a sociologist by training who worked for nearly 27 years in educational programming, which was eliminated with that measure, told IPS.
The Colombian government argued that Inravisión was "inefficient."
More:
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=37957(It shouldn't be necessary to point out to people that Colombia has the worst record for physical survival of death for journalists anywhere. Some are assassinated after a season of threats, some move away after receiving threats, and the remaining ones often admit to "self-censoring" in order to avoid assassination.)
Thank you for seeing right to the bone on the original article. You spotted it all the way through the spin. Can't begin to thank you for the spirit you show in patiently pointing these things out for newcomers who haven't realized what has happened yet.
Only an awakened consciousness can guide people to these realizations, when we are all brought up surrounded by disinformation. It's up to everyone to start seeing through the deliberate misrepresentations. It takes practise.