03/12/2009
Patas Arriba In Democracy, the Republic Confused, where the story is told backwards, elections are preceded by a military intervention.
In the confused story of Democracy Al Reves, rulers imposed by military intervention call for free and democratic elections.
Unlike in the Republic and Democracy Patas Arriba Confused, certain countries in the international community whose names begin with i and ending in or TATEMENT mperialismo, endorse elections called by governments emerging from military intervention. In other words, without ellipsis legitimize military coups.
Outside ironies: the story backwards reduces and simplifies the democracy, making the act of depositing the vote, even in contexts undemocratic as the one lived in Honduras since June 28: Under military threat, with foreign intervention during the coup and later, in conditions of political repression, "are thirty people who have been killed following the coup, nine of which in the past month, and we must add the more than 4 thousand cases of human rights violation "said Bertha Oliva, the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, Cofadeh. He adds:" We are very concerned because we are living a real war of low intensity. Arbitrary arrests continue, there is daily persecution against teachers union leaders, and communities, neighborhoods and settlements, military checkpoints have been on all roads and explosives in different parts of the capital to generate tension and justify repression. "[1]
Under these conditions, imposing a utilitarian conception of democracy. It privileges the instrument (vote) on the end (choice) dissociates first thing second, so that does not mean deciding vote, but punishing the previously agreed in other areas (minority and with the use of force). Dominates the time (the act cast a vote, international observers say cleanly) on the process: the quest for democracy and justice, collective construction and permanent electoral beyond Sunday. S and reduces democracy to the will of those who put the vote, regardless of their quantity and context, against those who do not: paradoxically, the majority [2]. It overcomes the individual votes on the community that requires other rules. The "new" democracy caricature of itself borders dangerously with the dictatorship.
In short, freedom upside down: the pursuit armed minority voting wards generates a democratic process, in the opinion of the United States and other countries like Costa Rica, even Spain, which"recognizes elections but can not ignore," according the ambiguous expression of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. [3] Is it starting to dominate the economic interests on the principles?
Sorry, but should not be any other way? It is the existence of conditions of free information (no radio or TV channels closed), participation (without social leaders threatened or killed), and circumstantial permanent neutrality of the Army, which generates an electoral process and therefore a new legitimate government and not vice versa.
The coup began on November 17
We need to rewrite history. The facts of official and apparently occurred in this way:
The coup that sought to nullify reinforces
What does not change in democracy is the future upside down: after the coup's legitimacy, strengthens the extreme right, there is a stage of involution in the mainland military and political solutions. But it also opened a phase of increasing popular resistance and nationalist proposals against interventionism and hegemony.
The institutionalization of stroke redefines the pole of the proposals and popular bets in Honduras: Zelaya refund of tactical and strategic priority until 29 November, it transits to a lack of new government and the new institutional framework, the requirement of a retrial election, the possible formation of government-parallel s-s popular extralegal struggle by some sectors and the reestablishment of Honduras from the ever growing demand for constitutional reform (a request which the coup and tried to invalidate the elections) : resistance is more complex.
These resistors must reinvent the Republic, to democracy feet below the current (ie, sign with his four feet on the ground) and above all start walking from yesterday to tomorrow, we know that progress is not linear, that utopia two steps away from each we move but we also know that democracy must take firm principles and values, contrary to legal and ethical relativity that predetermines the coup in Honduras. These principles include social participation, prevalence of civil power, search for justice, respect for the sovereignty of nations and peoples, rights of majorities and minorities, in an order under the domain of economic elites, processes reestablishment of the previous states and transformation of power relations.
Ironically, on Sunday November 29 these democratic principles expressed in the absence from the polls, with the ignorance of the vote, with the massive silence outside the partisan-election, making clear the need to reinvent the representative democracy and electoral as we have known so far.
Transformer and redefining the way from below is long, complex and stumbling, but inevitable. In "Muddled, The School of the world upside down", Eduardo Galeano portrays this pursuit of continued fighting and "inexplicable resurrection" of the Latin American peoples
"They say we have missed our appointment with history, and we must recognize that we arrive late for all appointments.
Nor have we been able to take power, the truth is that sometimes we get lost along the way or are in the wrong direction, and then we fell a long discourse on the subject.
Latin Americans have a reputation of fucking charlatans, vagabonds, buscabroncas, heaters and wild, and something will be. We are taught that, by law of the market, which has no price has no value and we know that our price is not high. However, our fine business sense makes us pay for everything we sell and allows us to buy all the mirrors that face betray us.
We have five hundred years learning to hate between us and work with heart and soul of our own destruction, and there we are, but we have not been able to correct our mania for walking and hitting daydreaming all, and tendency to inexplicable resurrection.
Notes:
[1] "This is worse than the dictatorship of the 80s", Giorgio Trucchi, Rel-IUF / Rebellion. To these figures must be added 83 arrests and a dead person on election day, according to Andres Pavon, president of CODEH, Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras.
[2] Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) in Honduras has indicated that participation in elections organized by the government "de facto" de Roberto Micheletti has been from 61.3%, while the resistance sources put it at between 30 and 35%, according channel Telesur. In the context of elections called by a coup government, and identified as key to its re-legitimation, is acceptable to question the veracity of official data.
[3] www.elpais.com/articulo/
[4] In www.rebelion.org, 21 November 2009 andwww.laprensahn.com/Ediciones/
In the confused story of Democracy Al Reves, rulers imposed by military intervention call for free and democratic elections.
Unlike in the Republic and Democracy Patas Arriba Confused, certain countries in the international community whose names begin with i and ending in or TATEMENT mperialismo, endorse elections called by governments emerging from military intervention. In other words, without ellipsis legitimize military coups.
Outside ironies: the story backwards reduces and simplifies the democracy, making the act of depositing the vote, even in contexts undemocratic as the one lived in Honduras since June 28: Under military threat, with foreign intervention during the coup and later, in conditions of political repression, "are thirty people who have been killed following the coup, nine of which in the past month, and we must add the more than 4 thousand cases of human rights violation "said Bertha Oliva, the Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, Cofadeh. He adds:" We are very concerned because we are living a real war of low intensity. Arbitrary arrests continue, there is daily persecution against teachers union leaders, and communities, neighborhoods and settlements, military checkpoints have been on all roads and explosives in different parts of the capital to generate tension and justify repression. "[1]
Under these conditions, imposing a utilitarian conception of democracy. It privileges the instrument (vote) on the end (choice) dissociates first thing second, so that does not mean deciding vote, but punishing the previously agreed in other areas (minority and with the use of force). Dominates the time (the act cast a vote, international observers say cleanly) on the process: the quest for democracy and justice, collective construction and permanent electoral beyond Sunday. S and reduces democracy to the will of those who put the vote, regardless of their quantity and context, against those who do not: paradoxically, the majority [2]. It overcomes the individual votes on the community that requires other rules. The "new" democracy caricature of itself borders dangerously with the dictatorship.
In short, freedom upside down: the pursuit armed minority voting wards generates a democratic process, in the opinion of the United States and other countries like Costa Rica, even Spain, which"recognizes elections but can not ignore," according the ambiguous expression of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. [3] Is it starting to dominate the economic interests on the principles?
Sorry, but should not be any other way? It is the existence of conditions of free information (no radio or TV channels closed), participation (without social leaders threatened or killed), and circumstantial permanent neutrality of the Army, which generates an electoral process and therefore a new legitimate government and not vice versa.
The coup began on November 17
We need to rewrite history. The facts of official and apparently occurred in this way:
· June 28 political and military ousted President Zelaya and violently alter the structure of power (coup),Look at the history backwards: the announcement by the United States one day Wednesday, November 17 the acceptance of elections and government in this context appeared irregular and illegal, is the message you expect to get violent coup government Zelaya. Can not you be? Believe it, because in the Republic Confused and reversed the facts are analyzed from the end to the beginning and impose other space-time dimensions.
• The international community (international community including the United States with its ambiguities) condemned the incident and initially isolates the de facto government,
· On September 21 of the resistance struggle and the return of Zelaya negotiation and impose a Tegucigalpa-San Jose Agreement which requires, among other things, to reinstate Zelaya (though not reverse the coup),
· The agreement is breached at this point, elections are coming up ...
· November 17 The U.S. announces its support of elections and the elected government in this process, postponing until December restitution Zelaya. Kelly, U.S. envoy to Honduras, confirmed at that time that Washington will support the general election because "nobody has the right to remove the Honduran people the right to vote and elect their leaders. This is an important part of democracy and I noticed the excitement in the country, moving towards the elections of 29 November ". [4]
The coup that sought to nullify reinforces
What does not change in democracy is the future upside down: after the coup's legitimacy, strengthens the extreme right, there is a stage of involution in the mainland military and political solutions. But it also opened a phase of increasing popular resistance and nationalist proposals against interventionism and hegemony.
The institutionalization of stroke redefines the pole of the proposals and popular bets in Honduras: Zelaya refund of tactical and strategic priority until 29 November, it transits to a lack of new government and the new institutional framework, the requirement of a retrial election, the possible formation of government-parallel s-s popular extralegal struggle by some sectors and the reestablishment of Honduras from the ever growing demand for constitutional reform (a request which the coup and tried to invalidate the elections) : resistance is more complex.
These resistors must reinvent the Republic, to democracy feet below the current (ie, sign with his four feet on the ground) and above all start walking from yesterday to tomorrow, we know that progress is not linear, that utopia two steps away from each we move but we also know that democracy must take firm principles and values, contrary to legal and ethical relativity that predetermines the coup in Honduras. These principles include social participation, prevalence of civil power, search for justice, respect for the sovereignty of nations and peoples, rights of majorities and minorities, in an order under the domain of economic elites, processes reestablishment of the previous states and transformation of power relations.
Ironically, on Sunday November 29 these democratic principles expressed in the absence from the polls, with the ignorance of the vote, with the massive silence outside the partisan-election, making clear the need to reinvent the representative democracy and electoral as we have known so far.
Transformer and redefining the way from below is long, complex and stumbling, but inevitable. In "Muddled, The School of the world upside down", Eduardo Galeano portrays this pursuit of continued fighting and "inexplicable resurrection" of the Latin American peoples
"They say we have missed our appointment with history, and we must recognize that we arrive late for all appointments.
Nor have we been able to take power, the truth is that sometimes we get lost along the way or are in the wrong direction, and then we fell a long discourse on the subject.
Latin Americans have a reputation of fucking charlatans, vagabonds, buscabroncas, heaters and wild, and something will be. We are taught that, by law of the market, which has no price has no value and we know that our price is not high. However, our fine business sense makes us pay for everything we sell and allows us to buy all the mirrors that face betray us.
We have five hundred years learning to hate between us and work with heart and soul of our own destruction, and there we are, but we have not been able to correct our mania for walking and hitting daydreaming all, and tendency to inexplicable resurrection.
Notes:
[1] "This is worse than the dictatorship of the 80s", Giorgio Trucchi, Rel-IUF / Rebellion. To these figures must be added 83 arrests and a dead person on election day, according to Andres Pavon, president of CODEH, Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in Honduras.
[2] Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) in Honduras has indicated that participation in elections organized by the government "de facto" de Roberto Micheletti has been from 61.3%, while the resistance sources put it at between 30 and 35%, according channel Telesur. In the context of elections called by a coup government, and identified as key to its re-legitimation, is acceptable to question the veracity of official data.
[3] www.elpais.com/articulo/
[4] In www.rebelion.org, 21 November 2009 andwww.laprensahn.com/Ediciones/
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