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"Una vez que recibió la notificación firmada por Rodas, “procedí a pedir información a la embajada de Honduras que está controlada por el señor Mel Zelaya y recibí instrucciones de que si en una hora no desalojaba, iban a traer al servicio secreto”, expresó Morazán."

Holy fucking shit...er, what I meant to say was WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Kick ass!

Wow -- either the Washington DC, police or the Secret Service just kicked out the Honduran coup government's fake DC consul at the behest of the real government's actual Foreign Minister, Patricia Rodas:

El cónsul de Honduras en Washington, Estados Unidos, Raúl Morazán, denunció ayer por la tarde que fue descreditado de sus funciones y posteriormente desalojado de la sede diplomática, a petición de la ex canciller Patricia Rodas.

Mr. Carroll:
I was pleasantly surprised by your article on the Honduras coup comic by Dan Archer and Nikil Saval. I was especially surprised - and completely agree - with your statement that the comic "puts conventional media coverage to shame."

You suggest that the comic does so by succinctly providing historical context dating back to 1900. No doubt that is true, but conventional media articles do not even clarify very recent events - that Zelaya was overthrown for attempting to ask Hondurans a question.

The conventional article about the coup reports something like

"Zelaya's opponents accuse him of illegally seeking a second term - a charge he denies"

This leaves readers to imagine a complex legal dispute where each side may have valid points.

However the issue is very simple. Zelaya's "illegal poll" could only have produced a public record of how Hondurans felt about initiating constitutional reform. It could not have changed any laws even if it had been binding.[1] The regime's high priced lobbyists have thrown up a legalistic smokescreen to obscure the fact that Supreme Court made a crime out of asking Hondurans a question. If the corporate press were doing its job then most readers would understand the absurdity of the Supreme Court's ruling - and also why constitutional reform has become a rallying cry of the resistance to the coup. The lobbyists for the dictatorship would have a much harder job.

Historical context would be great, but the corporate press does not even clarify very recent events as they easily could.

Joe Emersberger.

[1] As I've pointed out to you and many other journalists, the question Hondurans were to to be asked was

"Do you agree that in the general elections of November 2009 a fourth ballot box should be installed to decide whether to convene a National Constitutional Assembly that would approve a political Constitution?"

[see June 29 entry http://hondurascoup2009.blogspot.com/
see also IPS;"Honduras: Coup d'Etat - What's In a Name?" by Diana Cariboni]

So Revolter, whatever happened to Durán and Kauffman? Everyone seems to have forgotten all about them.

Or El Nazional ... though he might be too smart for them.

Oh, best news I've heard all day. But then again, who do you wanna bet will snap up Slimin' Simon? My money's on El Luniversal...

I lol'd

by the way, I hear that rosemary is one of the 100 NYT hackos getting laid off this time around. Only nobody's told rosemary yet.

fruityrumpunches served, the end.

What a pity I'm not a cartoonist. But I can draw Rory...he looks like an asterisk. Just like Kurt Vonnegut's anus in Breakfast of Champions!

Oh Rrrrorrrry Oh Rrrrrorrrry!