tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338612245455097792.post3404200570674339901..comments2023-09-11T10:45:49.957-07:00Comments on Honduras Culture and Politics: Armed Forces vs. campesinos: Militarizing the Bajo AguanRAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00097415587406899236noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338612245455097792.post-35774553427965680272010-04-13T01:20:24.125-07:002010-04-13T01:20:24.125-07:00Indeed, in an illustrative act of post-facto editi...Indeed, in an illustrative act of post-facto editing and recontextualizing of news stories that typifies the Honduran press at its worst, the <i>El Heraldo</i>'s story datelined yesterday no longer includes the quote that was there on Sunday.<br /><br />And they added some new filler that is particularly chilling:<br /><br /><i>According to officials, the government is preparing a general disarmament in the country to atenuate the wave of criminality that afflicts Honduras, but it is considered that the actions will be carried out in all the Atlantic coast, a zone that is the setting of organized crime.</i><br /><br />The transition from this nonsequitur to passages denouncing the MUCA members as concerned not with a settlement, but with a vague "something else", and in the process reducing the MUCA directors to people close to Manuel Zelaya, leads to another disturbing passage:<br /><br /><i>Other social sectors have pointed out as well that the campesinos are being pushed including by external forces to create a climate of ungovernability and violence in the country.</i><br /><br />There is no evidence that outside agitators are manipulating the MUCA members, whose dispute over these lands is long-standing. But accusing them of being agents of Zelaya or of shadowy foreigners, and associating them with criminality and lawlessness, lays the groundwork for what the article originally foretold: a massacre.RAJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00097415587406899236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338612245455097792.post-5259803296042584392010-04-12T10:41:42.563-07:002010-04-12T10:41:42.563-07:00I think the quote about the massacre has been disa...I think the quote about the massacre has been disappeared. You might want to check it. <br /><br />--CharlesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com