Sorry for taking so long to introduce myself! Well I'm marat_hn (real name and location withhold...lunamagica would probably throw me to the death squads if she knew them). I'm looking forward to participating in this forum with fellow democratic enthusiasts from around the world! Yes, even you, lunamagica.
The hurt surrounding this whole electoral process is strong. Imagine if Obama's win had been stolen away by republicans in shoddy elections (well...there is that whole thing that went down in Florida in 2000)! Wouldn't you guys have been pissed off?
Xiomara is an easy parallel to Obama, since her entire campaign was intelligent, positive and spoke about unity amongst hondurans and our intrinsic value as a people. Hell, there were even some references to free enterprise sprikled among there, so as not to scare off the 'golpistas'. Sure, wishy washy new age stuff, but it was a far smarter and more inspiring campaign than JOH's hatemongering,psychops and mudslinging..pretty much ALL of his spots and speeches were about Libre being socialist devils and how they opposed "traditional values" and his sole electoral promise of getting his personal military branch into the streets to "combat crime".
Did you know that his call centers called every single household in the metropolitan area at 2 AM in the morning of the elections purporting to speak on behalf of Libre? All of this to circumvent the "electoral silence" in place 15 days prior to the elections..oh wait, he didn't obey that ruling, local cable networks kept airing his spots even after that!
A lot of 'golpista' hatred toward the Zelayas stems from the media accusations of corruption which arose immediately after the coup. Now I'm not saying the Zelaya administration wasn't corrupt (probably no more or less than past administrations) but some (the most famous) of the accusations are completely ludicrous. I mean, would YOU believe FOX News if they aired "surveillance footage" of US Secretary of State John Kerry carting out a wheelbarrow full of money out of the federal reserve immediately after Obama had been ousted in a coup? What if ALL the major networks and newspapers were owned by Rupert Murdoch? Cause thats exactly what happened here in Honduras.
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