Garifuna Radio threats
our brothers at Flumabimetu Radio and Radio Duruugubuty, radio of the Garifuna people of the city of Triunfo de la Cruz and St. John in the Bay of Tela, reported in a voice of its director, the threats received today, 21 October when agents General Directorate of Criminal Investigation arrived at the facilities of the airwaves, supposedly to do "research."Both radios are part of the resistance and distributed daily reports of fighting and retransmitted the program of the Resistance: colleagues we share this complaint and the information on the accomplishment of its Council of Elders for next Friday and Saturday, with the presence of 46 communities. Audio in Spanish and Garifuna.
Journalist Julio Ernesto Alvarado
Julio Ernesto defensoresenlinea.com narrated to the censorship of its news content from space began early September, when President Manuel Zelaya was in Managua, Nicaragua, and used to call the newscast to go to the Honduran people.
The journalist reported that on several occasions ordered Victor Bendeck cut with all the interviews that are related to President Manuel Zelaya or actions developed by the National Resistance Front against the coup.
Other times the owner of Canal 13 (Honduras), Victor Bendeck, sent the signal of Channel 13 was taken off the air until the completion time corresponding to the broadcast.
"I do not hayaba to do, then that Sunday I had this interview, President Manuel Zelaya was going to call me (from Managua) at 7:15 pm, but he told me (Victor Bendeck) No, I do not authorize passes the interview, the crazy hacete, disconnect the phone that night to keep out the call, "said the reporter.
Julio Ernesto talking to the editor defensoresenlinea.com
He added that "obviously what I did was call the president and say he would not be possible to pass the interview for these reasons and I understand he (Manuel Zelaya) called Mr. Bendeck to say," aha you gave me back and business I left you? ".
The pressure exerted on Victor Bendeck Julio Ernesto, so it will not report on President Zelaya and resistance against the coup, was because Bendeck obtained a concession from the government of Manuel Zelaya, who then negotiated with the government de facto, to operate an electricity generating company and also the friendship that the employer has with the de facto president Roberto Micheletti.
The straw that broke the camel, was the spread of a new interview with Julio Ernesto made with President Manuel Zelaya in which he played disliked aspects businessman Victor Bendeck, so ordered to make a sharp cutoff of the newscast, taking air the broadcast and the signal thus channel 13.
The testimony of Julio Ernesto Alvarado joins dozens of independent journalists whose radio programs or television were censored by the owners of the media in transmitting or simply suffocated by the current de facto government.
Fortunately the journalist Julio Ernesto Alvarado has revealed that at least 3 offers TV channels for Noticiero My Nation, which he directs and produces, to continue broadcasting on the air and keeping the news feeds that have been widely accepted by part of the Honduran people.
The career of Julio Ernesto Alvarado goes back more than 30 years. At first it was a news anchor and radio producer. Later made tremendous inroads in programs such as "Because We Matters transmitting channel 3 of the Corporation and directed Televicentro Noticiero" More News "with journalist Geovanny García.
Then he decided to produce a separate program called Noticiero "My Nation" which aired for 11 years in the channels Honduras, which by the political crisis generated by the coup of June 28, had to leave the television company.
The journalistic career of Julio Ernesto Alvarado has been filled with many awards and honors, especially those related to defense and environmental preservation through its critically acclaimed production section Honduras unknown.
Martha learned that Lorraine Micheletti issued instructions to people you trust to in the next 24 hours confirming the registration of ownership of the newspaper The Liberator, to proceed to the courts that are available and demands the arrest spin on the term the next 48 hours against a journalist Jhonny Lagos.
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Vicenç Navarro
Roberto Micheletti Martha Lorena Alvarado trial plot to imprison the Director of THE LIBERATOR
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Drafting / THE LIBERATOR
Tegucigalpa. The visible faces of the de facto, Roberto Micheletti Martha Lorena Alvarado, met this afternoon Tuesday 20 October 2009 in Presidential Palace, and one of the issues, to analyze the initiation of a process to lead to jail to the director of THE LIBERATOR, Jhonny Jose Lagos Henriquez.
The information was provided by a confidential source closely linked to the environment of the dictatorship that, while inside, does not share the atrocities and systematic violation of human rights committed against the people of Honduras who seeks the return of constitutional order in Honduras, broken on 28 last June for the kidnapping and expatriation of President Zelaya.
CATCH IN 48 HOURS
Martha learned that Lorraine Micheletti issued instructions to people you trust to in the next 24 hours confirming the registration of ownership of the newspaper The Liberator, to proceed to the courts that are available and demands the arrest spin on the term the next 48 hours against a journalist Jhonny Lagos.
It is not the first time the director of this newspaper is threatened, on 18 June 2009, the judge of the First Court of Administrative Disputes Lyrics Jorge Alberto Zelaya Saldana, by request of Attorney General Luis Rubi, sent complaint judiciary to be through the newspaper will promote the popular consultation in which the Honduran people asked if he agreed or not with a new Constitution of the Republic. On that occasion, Lagos Henriquez was threatened with applying the Criminal Code if he continued to consult with the population. And the penalty under the law implies that reminded him of three to six years in prison for disobedience to authority.
THE FREEDOM IN STRENGTH
In this medium now understand that we live in democracy, in fact, if the current dictatorship has not yet imported throw the Armed Forces and Police to kill an unarmed people, repressed, beaten, imprisoned and disappeared, no strange that now again to intimidate, to bring to justice even put in jail to defend our Director for the greatest interests of our country through this space that was clear from birth that will stand by most Hondurans.
THE LIBERATOR not believe in a journalism sterile or pure, do not believe in the trap of impartiality, a media or you are with the people or is against him, or fighting corruption or defend, or defending the interests of a clique coup damaging families, enemies of the Honduran people, or oppose the cruelty of the oligarchy and rejects with contempt the claim mean and sick to keep misery to the sovereign, which is the people. We were born to move the world by the stories has always hidden the venal press. Our commitment is to the society and not with a group of adventurers ignorant, poor devils frozen in time of coups and dictatorships.
RELIEF AND THREAT OF DEATH
The Director of THE LIBERATOR enjoys relief granted by Amnesty International through the Committee of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (Cofadeh) under the coup, for the many different kinds of threats that has been subjected, still does Delmer Membreño days mate was kidnapped by paramilitaries tortured after he was told that "yonicito (Jhonny Lagos) expect the worst."
Since the coup and warned Roberto Micheletti and Martha Lorena Alvarado to abide by the consequences of any action against the Director of The Liberator, because we will not rest until they pay dearly for his boldness when it finally takes shape. Do not forget, their crimes will not be unpunished
The truth silenced in Honduras
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Vicenç NavarroThe most widespread interpretation of why there was a military coup in Honduras (reproduced in the five largest rotational distribution in Spain) is that this happened to stop the attempt by President Zelaya to "remain in power." The most active day in the promotion of this explanation of the military coup which has been the vanguard in Latin America correspondent, Joaquim Ibarz interviewed none other than the general who carried out the coup, Romeo Vasquez, giving you the chance to justify it, indicating that military intervention was fully constitutional, Zelaya necessary to prevent the perpetuation in power. Ibarz also met Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, archbishop of Tegucigalpa, which justified the coup also referring to the need to restore the law was suspended by President Zelaya. It is interesting that 70 years ago in Spain, La Vanguardia, then called La Vanguardia Spanish (Godo family property, which supported the military coup of 1936) - justified the coup by General Franco against the Popular Front, with arguments similar to now used by the coup in Honduras. According to La Vanguardia Spanish (18-07-40), the Popular Front government, democratically elected, had violated the Constitution, being necessary to his overthrow by the national uprising to restore legality.
The conservative bias of the media coverage of what is happening in Honduras explained that none of those five rotary Honduras has interviewed personalities known for their opposition to the coup. Had they done so, as have several U.S. media, readers of such information from the rotary would now lack. In addition to interviewing progolpista Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, La Vanguardia could have interviewed, for example, Honduras Copan Archbishop Luis Alfonso Santos Villena, who in interviews he gave to the Catholic News Service (04-08-09) and CNN (06-08-09) indicated that "some say that Manuel Zelaya threatened democracy by proposing to change the Constitution. But the poor know that Zelaya of Honduras raised the minimum wage. This is what they know.What they're aware of is that he defended the poor. This is why they are now in the streets, blocking roads and demanding the return of Zelaya. "
President Zelaya, among many other popular measures, doubled the minimum wage, a measure that angered employers in Honduras; provided free school meals (72% of Honduran children in rural areas face problems of malnutrition) and vetoed the National Assembly to ban the use of the postcoital pill. These policies changed the attitude of the masses towards the Zelaya government. As pointed out by the peasant leader Rafael Alegria, "Zelaya gave hope to people." Trade unions and peasant and indigenous people were supporting Zelaya that, when the coup in Honduras, these were sectors against. But to the extent that these forces were supporting popular Zelaya, the oligarchy was mobilizing to stop this process. As indicated by Archbishop Luis Alfonso Santos: "It's a mistake to assume (as the media) that Honduras had a democracy and that the National Assembly represents the majority of the Honduran population. In reality, there never was democracy in Honduras. What we have is an electoral system where the population is offered the opportunity to choose between candidates who have been elected by the political elite. The population is not represented by either the Assembly or by the Supreme Court, chosen by the country's rich. We are the most corrupt country in Central America.We can not say we have a democracy in which people participate in decisions ".
Indeed, even the U.S. State Department's report on "Human Rights in Honduras in 2008" indicated that "although the Constitution (Honduras) speaks of an independent legal system, such a system is poorly funded with few resources subject to a corruption of patronage and influence multiple policies. The Supreme Court appointed by the two major parties lacks autonomy and is clearly influenced politically, within a culture of corruption ".It was this Supreme Court that ordered the arrest of the president on the orders of the two political parties that dominated the Assembly Nacional.new president, Roberto Micheletti, was a powerful voice during the military dictatorship and authoritarian rule that followed. According to The New York Times (08-08-09), his campaign manager in the last election, Billy Joya, was leader of the political police in the eighties, responsible for the torture and disappearances that characterized that period. Today's coup the new government advisor on security issues. As the Archbishop Luis Alfonso, "people behind the coup were not Democrats. They conspired in advance to prepare the coup and later found the arguments to justify it. They do not care if children die of hunger or people dying in hospitals for lack of medicines "(July 29 interview on the radio Jesuit Progress). The new government has launched a brutal crackdown that could not stop the continuing popular protests and strikes against the coup.
In the U.S., the ultimate defender of the coup government is the lawyer Lanny Davis, representing the Chamber of Commerce in Honduras and was, in its day, the legal representative of the Pakistani dictatorship of General Musharraf. Today advises also to Corporate America in its attempt to derail the bill would facilitate the unionization of workers in the U.S.. He was also adviser to President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, is now the person in the Obama administration more tolerant of the coup government. All these data are unknown to readers of those five rotations.
Vicente Navarro is Professor of Public Policy at the Pompeu Fabra University and Professor of Policy Studies at The Johns Hopkins University
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