Ten Ways the US Supported the Military Coup in Honduras: Obama and the Myth of Change

Thanks for the post Peter!! It is amazing that Iran could get so much coverage and Honduras almost nothing. McCain scared the shit out of me, but I should have known that Obama was a ringer. Has he any ties to the Builderburger group?

You know I really dont even know what to say anymore. I been telling people for along time that obama is not what you think. He is a SPOOK. that means he's not real, he's like something they created cause this is the end of their reign of power before they have to run back under ground in their D.U.M.B.S. underground bases. When you open your mind, you will see all these illusions in the world. This is no joke, This is real stuff. The Vatican aka the popes are devils they have reverse evverything in the world. like the number 13 is good but they got you believing its bad and unlucky. jesus and all you worshipping has been reversed. you worshipping nimrod the devil. they all masons. 32nd degree and 33rd degrees. guess whats after that. the eye on the pyrimid. its the secret,. Nibru or planet X. 2012 the planet comes in at a 32 degree angle and when it hit the magnectic field it shoots out at an 33rd degree. and then it will be alot of hell on earth with floods and comets. new world order. if your mind is clear and concious you leave. if not you perish here or be a slave until eternity. thats the mason secret. they think they will be kings on this planet when their father the devil arrives. lol he dont like humans. he uses them. Obama is the key. he is a zionist. means its the end and new begining. WAKE UP. dont believe nothing the government is telling you,. its over. get your head right and you can see the illusions. turn off that brainwashing tv. read some real history. dont trust them. illuminatti is real. peace out.

Sure are a lot of people willing to toss the President under the bus and do the GOP's dirty work for them, all on the basis of conjecture and conspiracy theories.

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http://current.com/items/91628495_honduras-election-fraud-coups-and-us-support.h...

State Department Political Advisor Laurence Dugaan wrote that “Economic nationalimsm is the commmon denominator of tthe new aspirations for industrialization. Latin Americans are convinced that the first beneficiaries of the developmment of a country’s resources should be the people of that country.”

In a hemisphheric conference the US called for “An Economic Charter of the Americas” that would get rid of economic nationalism “in all its forms.” 5 In an August 1949 National Security Council draft it states now sppeaking of Asia that "The US must find ways of “exerting ecoonomic pressures” on countries that do not accept their role as suppliers of “strategic commoditees and other basic materials.” 6

5 Chomsky, Noam, Year 501, South End Press, 1993, page 34.
6 Ibid, 35

http://www.zmag.org/zvideo/2962

George Kennan, to illustrate the mindset behind US policy in Latin America and around the world. In 1948, Kennan wrote Policy Planning Study 23, stating that if the U.S. wanted to maintain (and expand) its position of world dominance, it could not truly respect human rights and democracy abroad. The document said:

We have about 50 percent of the world's wealth, but only about 6 percent of its population...In this situation we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships that will permit us to maintain this disparity...To do so we will have to dispense with sentimentality and daydreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives...We should cease to talk about vague and...unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of living standards and democratization."

Kennan elaborated on this concept in a 1950 briefing of U.S. ambassadors to Latin American countries. Of prime importance was to prevent the spreading of the idea "that governments are responsible for the well being of their people." To combat the proliferation of this idea, Kennan argued that "we should not hesitate before police repression by the local government...It is better to have a strong regime in power than a liberal one if it is indulgent and relaxed"

Obama is just like the other Presidents we have had in the past... He was bought and now he's just paying back favors...

Thank you for the post. There is much here to be digested. It is a shame that the US is not on the people's side on this one.

How long are we going to pretend Obama represents anything other than maximizing corporate profits? How long are we going to hope that Obama changes things without demanding it ourselves.

Right now we get the least bad of those who can attract corporate funding, and if we don't change this, were going to continue to rape the third world for slave labor and the third world and the physical world for resources.

Until then we are going to be told that consuming more is going to make us happy, while our social relationships deteriorate. How long are we going to let corporations control our government.

How long are we going to colonize the world?

The economy did very well during the Zelaya administration, which took office in
January of 2006. GDP grew by 6.6 percent in 2006 and 6.3 percent in 2007; it slowed in 2008 due to the world recession, but still came in at 4 percent. Honduras was the fastest growing country in Central America after Costa Rica. Poverty was reduced significantly in the first two years (for which there are data), from 65.8 percent of households in 2005 to 60.2 percent in 2007. Inequality also fell:From 2005 to 2006, the percent of income captured by the lower (poorer) deciles went from 2.1 to 2.5, and the percent going to the intermediate deciles also increased from 35 to almost 39 percent.At the same time, the share captured by the richest segment fell, from nearly 47 percent in 2005 to 42.4 percent in 2006.

Inflation remained under control; it peaked at 10.8 percent in 2008, but this was due mainly to theworldwide spike in commodity import prices, and it was soon to come down. (The year-over-yearinflation rate last September was only 3.1 percent). The current account deficit also hit high levels in2007 and 2008, peaking at –11.7 percent of GDP in 2008; however, this retreated into positive territory in 2009 as import prices and demand for imports fell. The Zelaya government was able tomaintain a sufficient level of reserves and a stable exchange rate. The government also usedexpansionary monetary policy, in the form of lowering reserve requirements, to counter-act the global credit crunch as it hit Honduras in 2008.

The government also enacted a 60 percent increase in the minimum wage, which brought an
enormous adverse reaction from the employers’ community. In spite of their efforts, the Supreme Court upheld the increase, partly on the grounds that even with the increase, the Honduran minimum wage did not cover the basic consumption basket in urban or rural areas. Prior research has also shown that increases in the minimum wage in Honduras have a significant part in reducing poverty and extreme poverty. The government also significantly increased access to education for an estimated 450,000 children through the abolition of school fees, and implemented a more-than- 25-percent increase in the number of children receiving free school lunches.

Jose A Cordero (Center for Economic Policy Research)
http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/honduras-2009-11.pdf

1. The Obama administration has never condemned the massive human rights violations committed by the coup regime. These have been denounced and documented by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), as well as Honduran, European, and other human rights organizations. There have been thousands of illegal arrests, beatings and torture by police and military, the closing down of independent radio and TV stations, and even some killings of peaceful demonstrators and opposition activists.

These human rights violations have continued right through election day, according to Amnesty International and media reports, and beyond, including the killings of two activists opposed to the coup - Walter Trochez and Santos Corrales García - in recent days.

The United States government's silence through more than five months of these human rights crimes has been the most damning and persistent evidence that it has always been more concerned about protecting the dictatorship, rather than restoring democracy in Honduras.

The majority of American voters elected President Obama on a promise that our foreign policy would change. For this hemisphere, at least, that promise has been broken.

The headline from the latest Time Magazine report on Honduras summed it up: "Obama's Latin America Policy Looks Like Bush's."

Mark Weisbrot,

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/16