WOLA vs. Honduran Democracy

[Derechos]

April 12, 2010

By ADRIENNE PINE

America, the past year has seen increasing U.S.-Latin American hostilities, largely centered around the June 28th, 2009 violent military coup d'etat that ousted democratically-elected Honduran president Manuel Zelaya. And while the U.S. role in Honduras appears to many Latin Americans to be a continuation of its imperialist policies in the region over the past century, there is one new twist in the case of Honduras: much of the State Department's behind-the-scenes work is being carried out by one of the most respected human rights NGOs in Washington: the Washington Office on Latin America.

http://www.counterpunch.org/pine04122010.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Important detail taken from article linked by your original article posted

regarding the mutant the gorilettis brought out from his cave, himself wanted by Spain for previous atrocities when he controlled Batallion 316, death squad monsters, and placed in charge of the coup government's security:

~snip~
Billy Joya is a Honduran widely rumored to have close ties with, or to work for, the Central Intelligence Agency, and to principally reside in the United States. He is renowned in Honduras for his participation in the “Battalion 316” death squad, responsible for the kidnapping and torture in the 1980s. Since the 1980’s, Billy Joya is reportedly the owner of major private security firms in Honduras and has consistently held security advising in government cabinets charged with overseeing policing and security.

More:
http://quotha.net/node/838

In the original article, it was such a pleasure learning we are being represented by brain-damaged tools like Connie Mack, Republican from Florida. How the hell can anyone understand what he was attempting to articulate with this verbal belch in a hearing:

1:51:00 Mr. Mack: Thank you Mr. Chairman and, you know I listen with great interest to all your, uh, testimony and, uh, I'm not sure that there's a lot that we can—well let me just find a point that I'd like to probe a little bit more. Moving forward, what type of um, activities do you think that the United States should engage in on issues of poverty, human rights, um, what types of things looking forward is it that you think that the United States can do to help, uh, show that we support the people of Latin America and that uh, we might not necessarily support some of the governments in Latin America but that we support the people of Latin America, um, so if you wanna just go down the line and each of you give me a quick thought on that I would appreciate it.

http://www.legaljuice.com.nyud.net:8090/huh%20huh%20what%20the%20hell%20wtf%20.gif

THIS is what we've got making policy in our House of Representatives:
http://thatsmycongress.com.nyud.net:8090/images/conniemack.png

Connie Mack
How the heck can ANYTHING go right when idiots like this are involved?

Honduras' dirty, horrifying oligarchy has been able to commit this crime in full view of the Hunduran majority and get by with it because they not only control the military and the police and the courts and congress but they also can yank the chain on our most ignorant, mentally challenged, and occassionally vicious and greedy legislators.

The world needs to see justice done here, and it will involve giving the people of Honduras the freedom they seek WITHOUT bondage to the "violent oligarchy that gleans legitimacy from a radically anti-democratic constitution and uses the military to control the rabble when the latter demands self-representation."

[Peace Patriot]

2. I wish I could K&R your comment, Judi Lynn! nt

[EFerrari]

3. If WOLA is spending entire days at the State Department

then we have to question their own relationship to CIA.

[protocol rv]

4. And Noriega too.

And I hear the CIA got to Noriega, he's going to sign a deal with Lobo.