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... in plain violation of the Honduran Constitution? Oh, they were busy promulgating the LIE, cooked up by a Washington P.R. firm and the rightwing coupsters, that Zelaya had violated the Constitution! Much too busy to look into the REAL constitutional crimes that was committed against Zelaya!
And where was the Associated Pukes, around the same time as the Honduran coup (2009), when Colombian Mob boss (er, President) Alvaro Uribe and the U.S. Ambassador connived to extradite 30 death squad witnesses to the U.S. on mere drug charges, and 'buried' them in the U.S. federal prison system, by complete sealing of the cases in U.S. federal court in Washington DC--out of the reach of Colombian prosecutors and over their vociferous objections?
Oh, they were too busy with their propaganda campaign against Hugo Chavez next door in Venezuela to bother with WHY the U.S. government wanted these witnesses out of Colombia.
It's all well and good to follow up on Reagan era crimes but the U.S. government has colluded in the same kind of crime recently, with far more current import to peoples' lives, and to democracy and justice, here and in Latin America. Not that this odd eruption of judicial activity in Honduras should be ignored. It should be looked into quite closely--which, of course, the Associated Pukes and the Washington Past don't do in this article and will never do. It is a most curious circumstance that a justice system that has permitted hundreds of leftists to be murdered, unjustly imprisoned, beaten and raped, and thousands to be threatened and oppressed, with complete impunity, over the last two years, has suddenly become all justice-minded on this old case.
At the least, we may be looking at more Lanny Davis P.R.--i.e., a puff piece on Honduras' justice system, to show how very vigilant rightwing coupsters are about violations of constitutional rights. (:puke:) But there could be more here than meets the eye, as is often the case with U.S.-involved incidents in Latin America. But don't expect it to ever be penetrated by the corporate/war profiteer press. Both of these 'news' horns--the Pukes and the Past--get their ledes right from Langley and go from there. Once the "talking point" is made, the rest is blather, and, if they can work it in, gratuitous pot shots at the Left.
One other point about this article. The Honduran government is so in the pocket of the U.S. and its corporations and war profiteers that it may need to give off some anti-U.S. odors, for political purposes within Honduras (big, grass roots Leftist movement) and in a region where numerous Leftist governments have been elected (Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala) and where Brazil has led the fight against the Honduran coup and its phony U.S. State Department-installed government. It is notable that the U.S. was involved in this old crime. Thus, the coup government gets to score points against the U.S. with no downside for the U.S. and merely the sacrifice of a few old coupsters.
Whatever is going on with this, we will never get context and meaning from these corporate/ war profiteer propagandists. THEY are part of the game being played. They ARE the problem.
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