Bertha Oliva: Coup leaders reviving despotism of the 80s in bid to crush participatory democracy
The military coup government of Roberto Micheletti is coming under increasing economic pressure to concede power, whether from holds on US humanitarian aid and World Bank loan money or the sealing of the borders by all three neighbors. On the political front, it has yet to be recognized by a single foreign government. And domestically, it has resorted to the tactics of Central America's dark past to crush the people's angry response to the coup. Beatings, curfews, spot-checks, censorship and death threats. Honduran human rights advocate Bertha Oliva believes that the actions of the 'Golpistas' (coup leaders) can only be explained as a reaction to the growing demand for citizen participation in Honduran politics. Though the Golpistas have sought to make their actions appear necessary to defend the republic from a power-hungry President, Manuel Zelaya, Oliva tells The Real News that the real story is the opposite. That it is they, as the polical-economic ruling class, that are afraid of losing their power to an increasingly engaged citizenry.
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First our hero Chevez took cheep oil away from rich U.S. corporations and gave it to his people. And then he proceeds to unify Latin America by giving cheep sometimes free oil to nations that need it the most. Comes now those rich U.S. corporations to order their paid actor Obama to conduct another one of their infames coups to terrorize Latin America back into submission.
For U.S. imperalists, super rich corporations actually, have a manopoly on the use of force and violance in our hemosphere, but only so long as death, destruction and blood continue to flow. For their is not a president in the Americas that does not get a cold chill down his spine just thinking about defying the will of those who control the world's largest killing machine.
But then hero Chevez is on a high roller, doing right and gaining the awesum power of unifying in support of a cause that could send a chill down the spine of those gutless wonder multinationals, who kill in secret so they may glory in excessive wealth before the public.