tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338612245455097792.post7114035716068534124..comments2023-09-11T10:45:49.957-07:00Comments on Honduras Culture and Politics: BlacklistedRAJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00097415587406899236noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338612245455097792.post-36532869969761317572010-04-18T14:06:28.845-07:002010-04-18T14:06:28.845-07:00Tambopaxi, we are talking here about a government ...Tambopaxi, we are talking here about a government who was previously the President of the National Congress, during the Maduro time, and who based his presidential campaign (against Zelaya, Lobo being at the same time the president of Congress, which is antidemocratic and inconstitutional)in demagogue speech such as implementing the death penalty.<br /><br />During the Maduro-Lobo office, criminality levels reached a peak never seen before, so this is not strange, and less strange is the fact that Óscar Álvarez is also now , like back then, the Security Minister. The Maduro government was very controversial in terms of human rights and criminalizing youth. Over 1,600 minors were killed extralegally, without any proof, nor trial, that they were allegedly criminals. Casa Alianza reported that 2/3 of the kids killed by security forces, were extrajudicial executions.<br /><br />The Nacionalista government reminds me a lot of Bush and his terrorist speech to maintain support of the sheeple to "protect" them, though in the case of the Hondurans, it seems to me that the security forces themselves are doing all the terrorism. <br /><br />Now, the marero discourse to criminalize people is back.. You only need to read in a newspaper that the assassinated person had a tattoo or was a marero, or allegedly someone who was involved, and your death will be justified.Boehmayahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04461120862795900171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1338612245455097792.post-72973107344356133882010-04-17T07:22:00.339-07:002010-04-17T07:22:00.339-07:00If Lobo Sosa is truly interested in reconciliation...If Lobo Sosa is truly interested in reconciliation, I'd suggest that he put every cop available to arrest the murderous thugs who are busy killing media people in Honduras (and the dozens of other, non-media Hondurans who are being killed each week).<br /><br />As well, someone in Congress or various human rights groups should go after the Sosa government and ask them to identify the intellectual (if not, actual) authors behind the crimes and demand that they be brought to justice. <br /><br />At this point, I have not sense that the Lobo government is able - and perhaps - is unwilling to control the violence that's going on in Honduras. <br /><br />To be fair to Lobo and his colleagues, it's not like these problems arose overnight (nor since the events of June, 2009, for that matter), but the media killings just since January have taken a real jump, which makes me suspicious, frankly, of Lobo y cia, so it's incumbent upon him to take effective actions to bring the murderers to justice...Tambopaxihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978665666431987347noreply@blogger.com