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Ahem. For those who are wondering what all the woot-wooting is about, take a look below this entry (and all the others). My in-frickin-GENIOUS best friend finally figured out what was wrong with the comment settings, and straightened it up for me. You may now comment. But be warned, trolls will get the same treatment as they did before I went on furlough.Oh yeah, and before I forget:WOOT! WOOT!! WOOT!!! WOOT!!!! WOOT!!!!!
From Panorama Digital via Aporrea, a short item:
Translation mine.Watch out for those Israelis! We know what they’re like…The president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, intends to visit the Gaza Strip with the next humanitarian caravan, British parliamentarian George Galloway confirmed yesterday.“President Chávez will be coming with me,” Galloway told Gaza journalists. He did not specify a date. George Galloway arrived in Gaza yesterday by way of Egypt, accompanied by a shipment of humanitarian and medical aid.
Yeah. Um…yeah.So what’s next, a bra bandit?A man has been charged with public intoxication after authorities said he was walking along Highway 11 with a pair of panties hanging out from his unzipped pants. According to The Daily Post-Athenian, 31-year-old man told deputies he had been at a pool party and stole them from a nearby home early Sunday.A search revealed the man had stuffed some 40 pairs of female undergarments into his pants, although he had thrown most of them to the ground as a deputy approached.The owner of the garments declined to prosecute but the man was arrested on a charge of public intoxication.
A Venezuelan activist put this together for Aporrea:
The awesome song is Liliana Felipe’s anthem, “Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo” (They Fear Us Because We’re Not Afraid). Watch and see what the sanitizing lamestream media are hiding from you!What’s the capital of Honduras again?
“Teguci-coup.” “Approved!”Funny, I thought it was Tegucigalpa. I guess not anymore!
“We will maintain freedom, justice and democracy in Honduras. At the same time, it is necessary for us to do away with freedom, justice and democracy!”Say, who’s in charge there, anyway?
Thought so.
Translation mine.Meanwhile, in Bolivia, the vampires have gruesomely claimed a relative of a leader we know and love:The popular leftist militant director, Roger Iván Bados, has been murdered in Honduras by persons unknown in the northern city of San Pedro Sula, according to anti-coup sources on Sunday.Bados was shot three times around 8:00 pm on Saturday. He was leader of the Popular Bloc and National Resistance Front Against the Coup D’état in San Pedro Sula.The national co-ordinator of the Bloc and Front, Juan Barahona, made the denunciation to Venezuela’s Bolivarian News Agency (ABN), saying he considered the act to be a political assassination.According to Barahona, a man on a bicycle stopped near Bados’s home and fired three shots at Bados, killing him.“All this is part of the repressive atmosphere and actions of the coup government which will not stop oppressing the people, because that’s the only way to maintain themselves in power–terrorizing and killing the people,” Barahona says.Barahona also indicated that the de facto government has no popular support, “so no better option remains for them other than killing popular movement leaders, there is no other way for this government to sustain itself.”Bados was a member of the leftist Democratic Unity party and of the Popular Bloc of San Pedro Sula, 250 km north of the capital city of Tegucigalpa, and formerly president of a union of cement-factory workers.The second victim is Ramón García, 40, who was forced to step down from a bus in which he was riding in Callejones, in the western Honduran department of Santa Bárbara. The information was confirmed by a UD party leader, Renán Valdés, who said that García “was removed from a bus by persons unknown.”He added that the incident also resulted in wounds for the victim’s sister and the wife of his nephew.
Translation also mine.So, it looks like this Transylvanian yucko, Rózsa Flores, is not as dead as we’d devoutly hoped. Someone please issue the Bolivian federales some silver bullets!Lest all this murder and mayhem get you down, though, fear not–Bina the Vampire Slayer has just the garlic for you, dahlings. I’m told that laughter drives a stake through the fat black hearts of the wicked, so here’s a funny item for you concerning a couple of Venezuelan monsters:Marco Guía, attorney for the family of Rufina Morales, aunt of the President of Bolivia, who was found dismembered in June in Cochabamba, denounced on Wednesday that this crime was part of a plan to kill president Evo Morales, hatched by the Croatian-Bolivian mercenary Eduardo Rózsa Flores, who headed an irregular group dismantled by police in April.“Upon reviewing the antecedents of this crime, I have found evidence of a flagrant attempt to assassinate President Evo Morales, a political vengeance on the part of separatists promoting terrorism,” Guía said. Guía appeared before the public prosecutor’s office of the District of La Paz to denounce that “the next victim of these persons’ criminal plans will be the President.”He said that the persons who murdered and dismembered Rufina Morales did it as part of a vendetta, as vengeance for the killing of Rózsa Flores and two other militants in a clash with police, and also to send a message.Among those responsible for the death of Rufina Morales, Guía named a Brazilian by the surname of Rodríguez, recruited in the El Abra jail in Cochabamba, and two Bolivian fugitives hailing from Cochabamba and Santa Cruz.The victim, in her seventies, was dismembered after her death, according to scientific police investigations. According to the attorney, “Rodríguez confessed that he dismembered the body of the President’s aunt and that it was part of a political vengeance.” He connected the killer with the terrorist cell linked to Rózsa.
Leopoldo Castillo (alias El Matacuras, “the priest-killer”) and Alberto Federico Ravell, evil media mogul, try on a winning strategy to woo Barack Obama–Maria Corina Machado’s too-short skirts and hard-to-walk-in heels. Hey, it worked for Maria Corina–she got a date with Dubya! Who knew the undead had such nice gams?PS: To the Hungarian spamtard below, and anyone else thinking of denying what really happened in Bolivia: Fuhgeddaboudit. You’re gonna get banned, you’re gonna get hung out to dry as a Wanker of the Week (with your e-mail and IP number on display to the world), and no, you’re not gonna go unchallenged. You may wanna think twice before you spam this blog with any more of your fascist shit. This entry is now closed to further comments. Thanks, and get fucked!
According to Aporrea, journalists from the Venezuelan state channel, VTV, and the international Latin American news channel, Telesur, have been detained and threatened in Honduras. Why the Venezuelans, of all people? Because they are the only ones daring to report fully and honestly on the coup a it unfolds. And because, as state-funded journalists, they are automatically presumed to be Chavistas. And as such, they are the “tyranny” of a good example. Can’t have that, can we…
Here is some relevant video from the Aporrea report:The first news reports of the detentions. The journos had their passports confiscated by the “authorities” who, at this time, are no authorities at all, but are shock troops for the coup. The director of Channel 36 in Tegucigalpa recognizes and supports the good work the Venezuelans are trying to do in getting the truth out to a larger world audience. And a human-rights commission member denounces the clear violation of the rights of Hondurans–as well as the foreign reporters trying to do their job. The Venezuelans have since been released from custody, but threatened–and ordered to leave Honduras by the military regime.And to see just how uncomfortably complete and honest (and BS-free) Venezuelan reporting on the coup can be, check out this link. Dossier, hosted by the intrepid Walter Martínez, devotes a full hour to the coup events “en pleno desarrollo” (as they unfold). The report notes HUGE demonstrations against the coup (and for the missing Honduran president, Mel Zelaya), with a strong Afro-Honduran and indigenous/mestizo presence; the anti-coup sentiment cuts across all color lines among the middle and lower classes. (It’s also worth observing that every one of the coup perpetrators is very oligarchic and very, very white. Not a brown face among them.) There are reports of beatings and killings which the lamestream (and pro-coup) media are trying to whitewash out (literally!). Since the coup perps have been excoriating the international community for refusing to recognize them as a legitimate government, it’s not surprising that they don’t want critical, honest reporters in the country. Little wonder, then, that they’re picking specifically on the Venezuelans. Among other things, Venezuela has a large number of truly independent journalists among the ranks in its government and socialist-activist groups. Some are bloggers; others work for independent, alternative or community media. But all of them, to a person, are indignant at the removal of a legitimate president from his post in Honduras, especially since said prez is taking leaves from the book of their own popular leader–a man who puts everything, right up to and including the new constitution–to a popular vote, and abides by it. And of course, the scenes playing themselves out in Honduras are all too reminiscent of something that happened in Venezuela seven years ago. Something that was also not reported accurately or completely by the local right-wing commercial media, but which the people themselves undertook to report when the newspapers and broadcasters refused to do their job.PS: For a good translation of the Aporrea piece, see Machetera.PPS: More good info on Zelaya as a politician @ Machetera; helpful backgrounder to the whole Honduran constitutional Schmier @ Harper’s.PPPS: Chavecito has stepped up to condemn the non-government of Honduras. He actually calls the de facto non-president “Goriletti”–“gorila” is an old LatAm expression for right-wing military dictators. Video here.
…and gets up with predictable results. Here’s her idiotic, inflammatory interview with an infamous Venezuelan human-rights abuser turned Globoterror presstitute, named Leopoldo Castillo (airing out his muy mal inglés, which I’m sure gave him quite the pitiyanki hard-on):
It’s in two parts, so don’t forget to click through. If your stomach is tough enough for it, that is. Mine gave out about four minutes in, when El Matacuras (that’s Castillo’s nickname; it means “priest-killer”, for reasons I’ll get to shortly) starts getting all unctuous with the leading question of the day. And of course, Her Royal Clintoness falls straight into his trap. Just as the major US media did (citing only oppo media sources, natch). Shameful.Clearly Hillary has NO idea what the fuck she’s talking about, but what’s more important is that she has NO idea who the fuck she’s talking TO, either. Here’s a little something the major commercial media in Venezuela won’t tell you about El Matacuras, starting with a rather crucial photo:
That’s El Matacuras during the 1980s, that golden decade for right-wing thuggery in Central America. He’s clearly drunk off his ass (a condition he was frequently in, I’m told), and he’s flanked by Roberto D’Aubuisson, Salvadoran human-rights abuser and founding father of the fascist ARENA party, and José Napoleón Duarte, often mischaracterized as a centrist (he wasn’t; he was also on the far right, just in a different party). This was taken when El Matacuras was Venezuelan ambassador to El Salvador–and when the right-wing governments of the decade were killing nuns and priests and even a well-known archbishop with impunity. During that time, we heard nary a word of boo from the United States; on the contrary, the Reagan/Bush State Dept. called them Great Democratic Leaders, one and all–which of course it would, seeing as it sent in the Marines repeatedly to install them. Machetera can fill you in on all the fun stuff, she’s already addressed this (as usual, I’m fashionably late to this particular party.)Now, I know the State Dept. reads this blog. I’ve been tipped off by a blogging buddy who spotted them on his Sitemeter–they cruised into his blog from an entry on mine. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if this entry ended up meeting the eyes of HRC her own selfe. So, Hill, I really wanna know–WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING, HANGING OUT WITH THESE FASCIST SCUMBUCKETS? And who are you to prate about the “need” for “press freedom” in Venezuela–which has way more of it than the US does? If FUX Snooze openly called for you to be assassinated, as Globovisión does daily with Chavecito, I think you’d change your tune in a helluva hurry. Haven’t you seen The Revolution Will Not Be Televised? (Oh, here. Enjoy.)So why the double standard, Hill? Why have you morphed into Blondoleezza Rice? Oh yeah, I forgot–it’s Venezuela, and this Chávez guy is probably standing in the way of your realizing a better packet of kickbacks from Corporate Amurrica, who aren’t profiteering quite as hand-over-fist in Venezuela as they used to do before. Silly me! You’re the woman who sold out to Big Insurance back when your hubby was El Presidente de los Estados Unidos, so of course this comes as less of a shock to me than one might think. Your people are still without free universal healthcare. Venezuelans, on the other hand…oh, just read this and weep. What was it you used to advocate for as first lady, again? If you have any morals left, Hill, you’d do well to stop taking the local presstitutes at their word, and put a country mile (or ten thousand) between yourself and them. Or, as the old saying goes…oh, what was it you get up with again when you lie down with dogs?
Its taxonomical name is Ctenocephalides canis, and I hear it’s a real bitch to get rid of. Just ask El Matacuras. He’s still got his ears full of ’em.
Translation mine. Emphasis added.Betcha you had NO idea that this Micheletti guy was such a two-faced little fucker, eh? Accusing Zelaya of doing what he himself tried to do in 1985, presumably for a leader much more to his personal liking. That’s called projection, kiddies. I find it appalling, but not a bit surprising, that no major English-language news outlet has broken that rather crucial part of the story. To hear them tell it, he’s just the interim de facto blahblahwhatever. You learn nothing about him.In fact, you probably know very little about this whole story if you pay attention to the lamestream anglo media. They didn’t report the earlier probable attempt on Zelaya’s life, after all. You might be forgiven for thinking this coup was really bloodless (when in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.) But if you can read Spanish, or if you come here regularly for the innnnnteresting monsters I find and translate, you’re in a helluva lot more luck. Because now, I think, you have some idea of why this verrrrrry innnnnnteresting piece of graffiti has appeared in downtown Tegucigalpa:In the demonstrations taking place today in Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras, and in the popular organizations, members of the teaching profession, union leaders, and people in general called for the immediate restoration of the legitimate president, José Manuel Zelaya. One of the slogans chanted by the demonstrators referred to a truth seldom mentioned in the national and international media, but which everyone knows well in this Central American country.Deputies and politicians are now accusing Zelaya of trying to consolidate his stay in power and seeking to modify the Honduran constitution–which is considered “treason against the Homeland” there. The deposed president, kidnapped and violently extradited by a sector of the military, tried without success to hold a popular, non-binding referendum, which was interrupted by the coup d’état on the 28th of June.The proposal put forth by Zelaya differed greatly from what happened in 1985 when the then-deputy, Roberto Micheletti, called for a constitutional referendum to extend the mandate of the then-president, Roberto Suazo Córdoba.Specifically, on October 24, 1985, two years after the approval of the prevailing constitution, various parliamentary deputies tried to introduce a proposal calling for a constituent assembly, and for that they solicited the suspension of various constitutional articles, the same which today serve the de facto authorities to legitimize the removal of Zelaya. These articles are numbers 373, 374 and 375, referred to as the “mechanisms for reform and defense of the Constitution”.
Gee…is someone calling someone a human rights abuser???While we’re on the subject of human rights abusers, Otto has more here. (Oh hell, why not read his, El Duderino’s and BoRev’s great golpistaramas while you’re at it? I’m still playing catch-up on this whole god-awful buggery.)
