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Honduran Coup Shows Business Elite Still in Charge
New York Times ^ | 8/6/09

Posted on 08/10/2009 11:10:42 AM PDT by steve-b

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup after betraying his own kind: a small clique of families that dominates the economy. Now those same families stand as the greatest obstacle to the U.S.-backed drive to return him to power.

Elites across Latin America are watching the standoff closely, as they plot their own strategies to combat democratically elected presidents such as Venezuela's Hugo Chavez who have demonized the wealthy as they push for a more even distribution of income....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: honduras; zelaya
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To: steve-b

This pile of garbage is not an editorial - it is supposed to be hard news, taken directly from a wire service. The media is now emboldened, dropping all pretense of objectivity and pulling down the facade of neutral observation. They aren’t news reporters anymore, they are “news shapers”, putting more effort into narrative-weaving than fact-finding. This is make or break time - time to prove that cheerleading and agitating for international socialism is beneficial enough to the elected and protected powers to justify the provision of public largess.

It is only going to get worse as society “progresses” beyond the 50-50 parasite-host split. Once we reach roughly 40% host and 60% parasite, the endgame of Democracy will be clear even to the 30-second-attention-span endowed mass-consumers of cultural retardation.


21 posted on 08/10/2009 11:31:00 AM PDT by M203M4 (NEW New Deal: A pot through every window!)
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To: steve-b
Zelaya would still be president today if he didn't try to hold an illegal election to change the Honduran constitution to allow him more than one term which is clearly stated to be an unammendable. We even have an unammendable rule in our Constitution which cannot be changed to deprive a state of equal sufferage in the Senate without that state's consent (See Article V).
22 posted on 08/10/2009 11:31:06 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Obama's medical nationalization bill reads like Atlas Shrugged with doctors instead of railroads.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Unreal. Chavez elections were rigged.


23 posted on 08/10/2009 11:32:32 AM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs - American Hero! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: steve-b

Ick. I don’t feel so good. Hmmmm...where IS that bottle of Pepto.............. :-X


24 posted on 08/10/2009 11:33:39 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: steve-b

“Not eligible to run for office” is now called “ousted in a coup” ?


25 posted on 08/10/2009 11:41:51 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: steve-b
Oh, but all the corruption in Latin America is our fault! It all started with United Fruit! Having spent many years in Latin America, this surprises me not a whit. Colonel, USAFR
26 posted on 08/10/2009 11:42:55 AM PDT by jagusafr (Kill the red lizard, Lord! - nod to C.S. Lewis)
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To: jagusafr

I don’t know what happened to my /sarc command, but I think y’all know it was...

Colonel, USAFR


27 posted on 08/10/2009 11:45:50 AM PDT by jagusafr (Kill the red lizard, Lord! - nod to C.S. Lewis)
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To: steve-b
Whatever, A$$ Clown.
28 posted on 08/10/2009 11:50:57 AM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
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To: steve-b

Uhh, it wasn’t a coup. It was a lawful and constitutional removal from power ordered by the Honduran Supreme Court when Zelaya violated the law in ordering an illegal referendum vote. The Honduran legislature also voted to remove Zelaya with every member of Zelaya’s party voting in agreement to remove him. Zelaya was replaced in office by a member of his own party. Some coup. But I think we all long ago gave up on the idea of the Marxist Times reporting news accurately. “All the news that’s fit to misrepresent.”


29 posted on 08/10/2009 12:02:06 PM PDT by MissesBush
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To: steve-b

This article is mislabled. It wasn’t written by the New York Times, but by the Associated Press, which is even more shocking. Somebody should correct it.


30 posted on 08/10/2009 12:16:13 PM PDT by steven33442
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To: steve-b

Looks like Hussein has changed tactics in his attempt to reinstate the thug dictator-wanna-be in Honduras. Now he’ll generate some pro-Zelaya sentiment by using the tried and true stand-by of class envy! It’s those evil, greedy, rotten RICH people keeping Zelaya from return to his duly elected office. If this doesn’t work either, Hussein will let the Times know what to run with next.


31 posted on 08/10/2009 1:04:02 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: steve-b

And your opinion on this tripe would be what exactly?


32 posted on 08/10/2009 1:12:24 PM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: M203M4

This is worse than bias. It is pure form Marxist propoganda.


33 posted on 08/10/2009 1:25:56 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Take heart, my beloved. It will grow darker still but the dawn will be made all the more glorious.)
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To: Frantzie
Chavez elections were rigged.

The Great Statesamn, and Supreme Humanitarian, and Arbiter of Democracy, Jimmah Catarrh, says otherwise.

That proves you be correct.

Baby Hugo is Rigger in Chief...and the sooner he suffers from a case of rigor, the better.

34 posted on 08/11/2009 1:10:10 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The mob got President Barabbas; America got shafted)
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To: steve-b
Kewl, a politically skitzophrenic writer.
35 posted on 08/11/2009 1:19:19 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: steve-b

Tick...tick...tick...


36 posted on 08/11/2009 5:59:40 AM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: Servant of the Cross; steve-b
More like a steve-b and NYT "ALTERNATE REALITY ALERT!"
Flaunt that ignorance, steve!
37 posted on 08/11/2009 7:03:41 AM PDT by astyanax (I'm here to spread peace, love and happiness... so get the f*#% out of my way.)
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