Comments on: Did Ousted Honduran President Zelaya ‘Dress for Media Success?’

By: Dennis klugmann | 3shn

Dennis klugmann | 3shn — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:04:04 +0000

[...] Did Ousted Honduran President Zelaya 'Dress for Media Success … [...]

By: Roy

Roy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:12:21 +0000

So, you are saying that Obama's administration secretly always knew the truth and supported what Honduras did. But, they had to publicly condemn, berated and belittle them in order to help them, because… What??!!

Give me a break! Obama and Hillary screwed the pooch on Honduras and it took them well over a month to realize it. By then, they couldn't do an about face without looking bad, hence all of the fancy dancing.

By: John

John — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:41:50 +0000

First, the Obama administration went pretty easy on the change of government in Honduras. The US actually did a pretty good job of outmaneuvering Chavez on this one, to the point that Honduras may have marked the high water for Chavez. In case you weren't watching, the US administration said one thing and pursued a different long term policy (to the disgruntlement of less thoughtful individuals on the left). They seem to have done a pretty good job of analyzing the risks and threading through the minefields. Second, I have a hard time finding the "elites" running Honduras, a country with a GDP smaller than Microsoft's annual revenues. The elites are north of the Mexican border. Much of the Honduran middle class were not born rich but have worked hard to study and get as far as they've gotten, and Zelaya wasn't offering anything to him. The reason Chavez is failing, and why Zelaya would have torn apart and beggared Honduras is because they both disenfranchise productive sectors of the economy as elitists and call this expanding opportunities for the poor, while handing Chavez a defeat. Retaining the productive sectors while reconstituting society to enfranchise the disenfranchised takes great understanding of how the societies work, as well as political subtlety, which both of them lack. I know that of Zelaya because I've had a window at times on some of his cabinet meetings, and my impression is the he in the caudillo mode of governing-ignorant of how government functions, politically incompetent, and, did I mention corruption? (E.g. The second city, San Pedro Sula, was bankrupted by a payroll of "ghost employees""–friends and family of the Zelaya administration given high-paid jobs with no work included, to the point that the city could no longer pay people performing municipal services. Top members of his administration were also prone to making withdrawals from the national bank outside fiduciary or accounting channels. And ask about the $600,000 dollars in expenses he ran up on government credit cards after he left the country–at the expense of the Honduran citizen–not exactly someone who cares for the Honduran worker footing the bills.) And Chavez, a military officer that tried first to take over the country by military coup and afterwards by electoral coup, no particular interest in nurturing democratic process there.

By: bet0001970

bet0001970 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:49:32 +0000

Flair for what? The insane? He has that pistol in his pants aimed at his johnson.

By: bet0001970

bet0001970 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:46:08 +0000

You noticed that too? Aimed right at his package. What a yahoo.

By: bet0001970

bet0001970 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:39:58 +0000

Roy, they all knew this was a sham. But none of these "reporters" are there to report. They are there to propagate a leftist agenda. And if that means lie (which it almost always means), then they lie. There's moral compass involved in conveyance of truth.

The media isn't about truth. It's a propaganda machine. Which is why those outlets are going out of business.

By: Jimmy Huero

Jimmy Huero — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:41:22 +0000

You have to hand it to the Latin American despots, they do have a certain flair.

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:20:10 +0000

I just re-read this original article and picked up on the link to a previous article (first link titled "fable") regarding how the Honduras story was "story boarded". This was an excellent article. And fits very well with what I was trying to say above.

Thanks Mr. Klugman, and I apologize for thinking that you missed the real significance of the Pajamas Issue.

By: U2Dave

U2Dave — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:57:40 +0000

Obama siding with dictators is not anything new (Iran). The media backing up dictators that's not new either (Soviet Union).
Getting the truth out about what really happened and not having to wait to read about it in a history book in a hundred years, now that's new and refreshing.

Way to go Hondurans!!!

Not everyone in America was duped by the press. From a freedom loving North American to the freedom loving people of South America I salute you, way to go standing up for your country.

In three years we'll have a President who believes in our Constitution as well as the Constitutions of free countries the world over. When that day comes the US owes Honduras a huge apology.

By: 4arepublic

4arepublic — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:27:30 +0000

"Anti-Chavez protesters, many of them wearing white, filled the streets of Caracas, denouncing recent arrests of opposition members for alleged violence during protests and a new education law that critics fear could lead to indoctrination in schools."
"It's very concerning because education is Venezuela's future," said 23-year-old engineering student Carlos Delgado, who also complained of soaring inflation and rampant crime after more than a decade under Chavez.
"We have 11 years with the same faces, the same problems, and the truth is that we don't see any solutions," Delgado said."
All quoted from- guess where? Huffinpuff Post