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Honduran media join the fray
As diplomats from across the Americas step up efforts to resolve the standoff between interim leader Roberto Micheletti and ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Honduran media have made it clear who they are rooting for.
Our guests tonight are Cecilia Baeza, a Honduras specialist and professor at Sciences Po Paris, and Blake Schmidt, FRANCE 24 correspondent in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras.
Roberto Micheletti, “the putschist president”? The “constitutional president”? The “de facto president”? Manuel Zelaya, “the ousted president”? The “elected president”? Or simply “Señor Zelaya”? Depending on the words chosen, viewers can quickly guess which candidate Honduran media have sided with.
As the struggle for power heats up in Honduras, local media have been dragged into the escalating polarisation. Today it is virtually impossible to find a broadcaster that uses neutral words to talk about the two main protagonists of the political crisis, Roberto Micheletti and Manuel Zelaya.
Hooking on to pro-Zelaya media, however, has proved tricky, since the Micheletti government has shut down the two main networks supporting his rival, Canal 36 and Radio Globo.
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Viva Honduras!
Anyone who has read Honduras' Constitution can clearly see that Zelaya deposed himself. If you study his actual activities prior to his arrest, you can see that he was warned by the courts, and actually burgularized the confiscated ballots that had been provided to him by Chavez with his pillaging suporters. Not to mention the stolen money from the Bank of Honduras. The man is a criminal. It is Honduras' Constitution, not OAS, not Obama's, not Hillary's, not yours. It doesn't matter what the rest of the world thinks, it only matters what the Honduran Supreme Court thinks. Have you ever heard of another situation where visas of judges were revoked because a foriegn power disagreed with their discisions? The brave people of Honduras will decide the whole thing November 29th and nobody else gets a vote. period. Hold on Catrachos! You are the bravest people in the world!