Honduras Coup, Act VI, Day 43

Update2: Via rns at HondurasCoup2009, according to pro-coup El Heraldo, Honduras has suspended paying its debt of $405M to the Central American Economic Integration Bank. Its total external debt is $2.4B. The Bank early suspended disbursement of $130M for a 4 lane highway from Tegucigalpa to Rio del Hombre on the not-unreasonable basis that the Pretend Government was not legally authorized to receive it. “We are well and truly screwed” said oligarch Miguel Facussé, for whom four banks had frozen $90M.

Adrienne has an eye-opening retrospective on how politicians reacted to Zelaya’s proposals in real time. They supported ALBA, the minimum wage hike, and other measures that they now claim were the reasons they had to tear up the Honduran Constitution.

Brother John has a wonderful example of how the pro-coup press bends any news event to fit their storyline. In the case he describes, La Prensa makes it seem as if the Pope was condemning terrorism in Honduras. In reality, he made a bland statement expressing a hope that Honduras might return to normal. The statements he made condemning armed groups and terrorism could apply as well to Al Qaeda as to the Pretend Government in Honduras. In any event there is no reason to think he is talking about Honduras.
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Update: Honduras USA Resistance has a flim in Spanish, Eramos Invisible (We Were Invisible), that is very much worth watching. It shows, for example, “the mob seizure” of the poll materials on June 26th, the bullet holes in the presidential palace, the Congress reading the phony letter of resignation, and the anti-Chavez hysteria of some of the anti-Zelayists.

Until one actually sees this material, one can be theoretical and imagine that there are two sides to the story. But seeing it, there are things that simply aren’t consistent with anything that civilized humanity accepts.
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Word from someone in Honduras, whose name I will withhold for the time being, that there was an assassination attempt against Father Neftali, using an explosive device. It’s unclear what the motivation might have been.

(BoRev presents a photo of the meeting between LDS elder Tate Brinton & Co. and Dictator Micheletti, because nothing says love and brotherhood like overthrowing a legally elected government by force and violence.)

A spokesman for the AG’s office, Elvis Guzmán, says that members of a drug gang of ex-military, the Zetas, planned to kidnap the son of an unnamed businessman. Tiempo reports that taxis may be hiking fares illegally…like, because of the spike in gas prices? The EU is still undecided about recognizing Honduras. Judge Jorge Alberto Rivera Avilez denied a request to arrest military leaders who illegally kidnapped and ejected Zelaya. This was not exactly a surprise.

The situation in Bajo Aguan remains murky. According to Habla Honduras, an unnamed representative of CODEH (human rights) reportedly said on radio that an “in situ” inspection did not discover any bodies or violated women. Michael Johnston of Chicago, who was the source of information to the effect that there had been two dozen dead, said he received that information from brothers in the faith who were in the area at the time and that they tended the women, but that the women refuse to speak because there is no law in Honduras.