Honduras Newspaper Impressed that Daughter of Pinochet Backs Coup

by iosaf Sat Jul 11, 2009 15:13

Shortly before Pinochet died and the last time his daughter was doing the rounds, I wrote an article entitlde "Pinochet given Bail to vindicate the existence of Hell." http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80021 in the update comments to that article which occured thereafter I posted an image of some young Chileans giving the fascist salute over his open coffin as it lay in state. I also remember how his grandson had given the oratory as a military officer cadet and spoken of the duty of the military to save their state and patria from the threat of subversive beliefs - you know the ones; commies, condoms, abortion, social welfare and poor peasants thinking that they might as well sell their own cocaine, bananas, coffee, tobacco, soya and so on themselves instead of relying on Captain Del Monte.

The grandson was expelled from the military academy a few days later in what was seen by the Latin American right (and surely we now see it is a far far right from even our own European perspectives) as an unfair bit of vengance The democratically elected Chilean regime simply said his simultaneous approval of both the coup of his grand-dad and any coup any other gorilla might launch in the future was unconstitutional and unacceptable.

But the damn daughter never went away. & so here we read that she's backing the coup d'etat in Honduras. Of course she is. In Spain there is a very popular satirical weekly cartoon magazine called "Jeuves" which has launched many spin-off characters including "martinez the fascist" ( http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADnez_el_facha c/f http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADnez_el_facha ) Martinez harks back to Franco's day and amongst his weekly challanges to support our era's right wing in a covert way with often hilarious results (hiding Berlusconi's girlies and so on) there has been a special guest star appearance of Pinochet's daughter.

We ought laugh if it were not so bloody unfunny.

There is more to Honduras than an exiled president missing his family.

There are over 2000 political prisoners.

by Pepe Sat Jul 11, 2009 18:00

Although most of the international organisations have condemned the coup (with various degrees of strength, some as the US only doing it half-heartedly), it is no wonder that the most reactionary and disgusting of the Latin American gorillas align with the dictator Micheletti as he represents the same neanderthal putschist that once ruled Latin America, but who are still lurking in the shadows. In the current context it is important to, on the one hand, denounce the coup by all means necessary (particularly in the face of the European media that somehow justifies it by saying that Mr Zelaya was trying to change the constitution -coruiously enough, this same media is largely silent in the face of the Colombian president that change the constitution to suit his re-election through parliamentary fraud when the people rejected in referendum his amendments), and on the other, support the resistance in Honduras in their struggle whatever form it takes.

The dictators should not be allowed to get out with an amnesty (as we did in Chile), and should not be allowed to form "national unity governments". They just should be stamped out from the face of earth full stop, and we should not expect for Obama, Barroso, Insulza and Co. to the job, it is the people on the streets, in the shanty towns, in the countryside and in the workplaces that will do it by force. If they come to power by force, by force they have to be kicked out. This is the only moral option left to the people -not dialogue with the Gorillas.

by iosaf Sat Jul 11, 2009 19:52

Pepe raises what should have been a general topic from the outset : that of intervention. In my article & updated comments on the coup which started before its realisation, I mentioned two causes for war which are legally classified as casus belli and casus foederis the first is simply whenever a state presents a good reason for war, like its diplomats being roughed up or its legations violated. The second is when alliances come into play. The first was covered the morning of the coup by the treatment of the Venezuelan and Cuban diplomats to Honduras and the second was and is covered by Honduran membership of ALBA. ( exact comment :
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92883?&condense_comment...54828 )
But somewhere between the rhetoric of Chavez at the beginning, and the response of the White House under Obama and Clinton who naturally would have turned for consultation on this to their back yard Pentagon & now hoy en dia

The real mechanisms which lead to and justify intervention have been succesfully sidestepped by the Honduran rogue regime. The only thing their crew of internet vandals succeeded in was at end in raising awareness of a possible Chavez intervention.

So it's time, if you're into that sort of thing, to read the resolutions of the UN and OAS again & see them for what they really were.

a piece of paper like Munich

The protesters who went to the airport to welcome Zelaya last weekend chanted that they wanted blue helmets, which any Irish person knows are worn by UN troops. Were they really asking for Haiti?

Are we ready to give them another Haiti? I, for one, am not really convinced that blue helmets help much. But I don't want to slight the work done by the first woman only UN contigent who picked up the pieces after an African state's coup d'etats, civil war, quantum barbarity and wholescale rape c/f "women's liberation arrives in Liberia http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80747?&condense_comment...false

Oh we may talk about one president in a cowboy hat far from his home, business and family
&
Oh we may utter the filthy name of Pinochet's daughter who still holds on to all the gold

- but we are not talking enough about the political prisoners in Honduras.