Community | October 09, 2011 | 20 comments

The Deadliest Place In The World For A Journalist

treewolf39
Mini-documentary on the Honduran journalists that have watched 15 colleagues assassinated in 19 months under the Lobo regime, a government Barack Obama praises for its "strong commitment to democracy" s
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  • Nick19
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      Nick19  

    • Glad to see stories about Honduras on here. I've traveled there a good number of times and can say that media in Honduras is pretty active in showing extremely violent things. La Prensa is a very popular newspaper but its a right wing newspaper so many sensationalist stories are present. I wouldn't call Honduras the deadliest place for journalist but I will say that it is indeed very dangerous from both the possible censorship from government or from gangs. I also want to add that if a journalist is killed in Honduras, the possibility of an investigation will be all but non-existent since there are not enough investigators available in the country. That said, Honduras isn't just some hellhole rather, its a place where you need to have caution where you travel to and the people of Honduras are among the most humble individuals around. Beaches are highly underrated btw.

    • 8 months ago
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Thank you for posting this Treewolf. People need to know this. And you know this government only states a country is "democratic" if it profits them. One reason why I never and will never go into a Walmart ever. And yes, it is also tragic what is happening to indigenous people in places where militaries in collusion with these hardline governments in collusion with corporations are killing and displacing them in order to secure palm oil plantations, REDD schemes, resources, land, water etc. But that has more to do as well with World Bank and IMF schemes than the target of the usual suspects here. Just shows their knowledge of it is based on nothing more that ideological propaganda.

    • 8 months ago
  • warman1138
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    • Corporate-acracy at its finest...and as usual, people become fodder for the mechanism. Dead men tell no tales. To see and hear what is happening there is to bear witness to the many faceted faces of evil. Journalists and intellegensia are the first to fall in order to establish control. I wonder how many hondurans involved have passed through US programs like The School of the Americas and others and what corporations and banks have present and future interests to exploit?

    • 8 months ago
  • treewolf39
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    • Thanks to all Current community and Mods for giving this some #1 status time! +^'d The last frame of the video showing corporate coup goods being tagged with a do not consume tag. We need to start labeling Evil corporate products in America. Just try to find copy paper that the Koch brothers are not making a penny on.

    • 8 months ago
  • David_H
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    • David_H:

      This is the country where Walmart gets its children's socks and underwear. I have been following the alternative news escaping the clutches of the new Honduran government. It is sad and very scary. The worst is the constant lies from Washington that democracy is working there. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Prison Planet did a little piece on the farmers being murdered for palm oil plantations but the poster wanted to blame only Liberal Globalists; all Al Gore's fault and so on.

    • 8 months ago
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  • Nick19
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      Nick19  
    • David_H:

      The Obama administration did condemn and imposed embargoes on Honduras after the coup but that affected many poorer people overall though. At least he wasn't Bush when the coup against Chavez happened. Bush immediately praised the new Venezuelan government until it was overthrown a day later. Obama is more hands off about Latin America than Bush was and I would call that both a good and bad thing. I mean what do you want Obama to do? Let the Hondurans sort these things out themselves. Oh also, Zelaya has returned and the FNRP are probably more active than ever before as a political opposition.

    • 8 months ago
  • MotherForTruth
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  • Nick19
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    • treewolf39:

      Why RT? You do know they're a Russian State owned newscast out to send a certain message. They follow what the Russian Government wants them to say so I wouldn't call that reliable. Although Democracy Now is not bad and NPR is pretty good as well. Al-Jazeera has good international documentaries. RTV is just out there to say everything that is wrong with the US and everyone else except Russia itself. Nothing wrong with criticizing but it gets to a point whereas they're obviously doing it for propaganda purposes.

    • 8 months ago
  • treewolf39
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      treewolf39  
    • Nick19:

      Obviously you have not been watching it. They criticizes Russia as well...... Wait they don't criticize, they report. One reason I watch them is that they stream live content; on line. So does Al Jazeera but Al Jazeera looses all objectivity when reporting on the middle east which, if you had not noticed, is driving US foreign policy. Russia is a big place with a proud people. They are not the demons that the cold war history would make them out to be.

    • 8 months ago
  • Nick19
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    • treewolf39:

      For christ sakes, Russia Today NEVER NEVER criticizes the Russian government and Russia remains around 144 in media freedom! Independent journalism within Russia is pretty much dead thanks to state repression. Oh, but what does Russia Today talk about? No, instead it talks about how terrible the US government is and then tries to play a high moral ground. It then sends an anti-western agenda message and pretty much tries to justify regimes like the one in Syria or the Iranian regime by giving them softball questions. Also, since when has Al-Jazeera been driving US policy? As I recalled, the Bush regime called them a terrorist news channel and the MSM spread disinformation about the network.

    • 8 months ago
  • treewolf39
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    • Nick19:

      LOL I agree on the first point but hey it is not like we don't demonize Russia enough in our media. 144th, So how does America stack up? The story may get written in America but never to reach the masses. I have never Seen the attack on the US government you speak of. As for Syria, Libya, Egypt, or Bahrain RT has given a completely different perspective. I imagine the truth is somewhere between AL Jazeera and RT s reporting. Iran is a hole other ball of wax do to the political lies our country throws out to cover a failed and very abusive past and present foreign policy. David H posted a Chomsky article today that lays a pretty bleak future landscape due to a constant need to double down exclusion instead of seeing the world as the commons that it is.
      http://current.com/community/93485237_insights-into-the-new-world-order.htm

    • 8 months ago
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