It is exceedingly difficult to conquer crime, win the war on drugs and guarantee freedom of the press when the crime-fighters themselves are part of the problem.
I've lived here just over 4 years now, running a children's home and providing most of the funding with my computer work. There are days that I want to pack up and leave, mostly due to the TOTAL INCOMPETENCE OF ENEE!!!
Today the power has been "cycled" (turned off and on rapidly) about seven times. Each time I lose Internet and have to reboot a computer. Today's problems are just an annoyance but they do kill my productivity.
There are days when the power is just out across the city and nothing can be done about it. Even if I had a generator, I couldn't connect to my work because the ISP's are knocked by the power outage.
Listen ENEE, I put up with electrical rates double what I paid in the USA. I put up with the fact that I am labeled an "industrial" used because we use 1000 kWh/month (while my friends in the USA use up to 7000 kWh/month in their homes alone).
I bring in upwards of $500/day to Honduras when I have power. The money gets spent here on children and the poorest of the poor. If you want to throw that money out the window, then keep on with your idiotic policies. If not, please hire an engineer and keep the power running. If you are losing money, and God only knows how you could be given how much you charge, then raise the rates more.
Just please, charge everyone for their electric. Don't accept bribes from large corporations to reduce rates. Not saying you do that, but other people have told me that you do.
“Whoever yearns for freedom, justice, and peace may rise again and raise his head, for in Christ liberation is drawing near.” -- Luke (21:28).
Somehow, that 2,000-year-old promise has failed to deliver tangible results. The “Savior” has saved nothing. Convulsing under rising waves of hatred, ignorance, stupidity and superstition, racked by mounting violence, the world still awaits salvation. Russia is drowning in alcoholism. The US is bombed out of its head. AIDS ravages Africa. In defiance of half-hearted reprimands, Sudan pursues its genocidal objectives. Poverty, despair, ethnic strife and shifting allegiances inspire massacres in the Philippines. Generation after generation, desperately in need of social justice and economic equilibrium, forever on the brink of civil strife, Central American states wallow in apathy and inertia. In Israeli occupied territories, Palestinians are fighting to preserve increasingly shrinking fragments of their homeland. Global warming puts the arctic on thin ice and threatens to engulf coastal areas and dozens of islands around the globe. Embroiled in two unwinnable wars, the U.S. clings to the two-party-system – both parties the flip sides of the same tarnished coin, both indistinguishable one from the other except of the partisanships and antipathies they inspire, both tied to corporate wealth, both intent of blocking meaningful reform in the name of capitalism, both involved in larceny against the poor. The gap between the haves and the have not continues to widen. The Church, the richest empire on earth and the moral arbiter to millions, is embroiled in sordid scandals and the Pope, donning gold vestments and ermine collars, sneers at the legitimate concerns of the flock.
The crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth is a fitting metaphor for man’s inhumanity. Alas, its commemoration reminds us all that salvation -- like justice, human rights, compassion, ethics and love -- remains a distant objective, not a policy.
The Climate Change fraud marches apace. With Bolivia hosting this farce, it is exposed as a vehicle for the super-plutocrats that finance the International Socialist Mafia push around the world, on the road map you find for their goal of absolute power.
Honduras should avoid like the plague these invitations to offer themselves up to the international slavery of what has proven to be the ultimate in political arrogance, because that's what they'll get, is plagues...
The unspoken reason is that the return of Zelaya without prosecution for corruption merely continues the long history of corruptos never being held responsible for their crimes. Lobo referred to the Golden Rule, but which one? The Honduran one that says "corruptos treat others as they themselves want to be treated if they get caught"?
Is wanting corruptos who have stolen money from the mouths of the poor to face justice "revenge"? I don't think so. It would be the first step in changing the cycle.
Most of the people who I know have accepted that Zelaya has received amnesty for political crimes, not happily, but have accepted it. It seems a bit insulting to attribute revenge as the motive and to say that some people don't know the difference. If we are going to "forgive" everything, there isn't any point in even having laws, or police, or courts. All those aid organizations could just make direct transfers to the Cayman bank accounts and be done with it!
Why did Hondurans have to hear about Lobo's agreement with Hillary Clinton from Salvadoran President Funes? Prior to that mention, there was never any question that Zelaya could return, but would be subject to answering for common crimes including corruption. Apparently the details of that agreement with the US are secret and we wouldn't even know that it existed if it wasn't for Funes. Interesting. I wonder what else Lobo has been forced to agree to. Where's the transparency? Is that public information in the US?
I don't think that there is anything laudable about Pepe not living up to his promise made during the inauguration of "No mas corrupcion" and that corruptos would go to jail "en punto!" Hopefully, that isn't what he has agreed to give up.
To quote yourself, sir, " Yeah... free to return to Honduras" but that is as far as I will agree with you.
I am simply sickened by the thought of "Mad Mel" returning to Honduras. I only hope that he will be immediately arrested, for criminal charges, and held until trial.
I am also, somewhat desperately, hoping that he will not be permitted public statements and that his supposed followers do not engage in previously violent behaviour.
Sadly, everything that you have suggested might happen to him, has already been done by him and his "goons"
It is obvious that you have enjoyed, and made use of, an excellant education.
I apologize,sir, but after your comments here and your supposed knowledge and experience in Honduras (I do see that you are based out of Los
Angeles, pardon my spelling if I am wrong) you have sorely wasted said education.
How can you possibly justify your statements regarding "myths" and your explanations thereof?
The true value of an education is how a person chooses to make use of it. Sadly, you have proven how a good education, and a use of language, can be sorely wasted.
Please, sir, attempt to educate yourself about what really happened in Honduras - possibly be actually living here?
I thank Honduras Weekly for printing what you had to say, at least they are fulfilling their mandate of providing a venue for the expression of all opinions.
Yeah... free to return to Honduras, be captured by Lobo's goons, tried by a kangaroo court, imprisoned -- or worse ... all in the name of "reconciliation" and "national unity...."
The plan is good, however as an economy-wise measure it is better to put our efforts in promoting outside the country to attract foreign currencies into our economy, specially when there is not much budget available.
Promoting internal tourism contributes to our own citizen's culture, awareness, and national pride, but from the economic point of view and a country-wide perspective it is like passing money from one pocket to the other. This would more likely be a task for the Ministry of Culture.
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Mr. Gallardo's comments would be risible if they were not so pathetic. A large bloc of nations, human rights organizations and groups such as Journalists Without Borders continue to deplore the coup that deposed President Zelaya. Few may ultimately argue with the merits of the case but all legitimately reject the Banana Republic blackjack method of ousting a consitutionally elected president who still had seven months of governance left to his term. The fact that Mr. Zelaya was inept, corrupt and over-ambitious -- what else is new in Honduras --is moot. Whereas his predecessors were also inept and corrupt, they were right-wing bungling crooks. Mr. Zelaya was a left-winger and that seems to have made all the difference in the world.
I stand by my sources and my article. WEG
Obviously WE Gutman's intelligence source isn't very intelligent. When he speaks of "contrived elections" it is obvious that he doesn't understand Honduran history or how did he expect Honduras was going to replace Zelaya on January 27th when Zelaya's term was up? "Oh, yeah. this dude's term is up on Jan. 27. What do we do?" and Micheletti answers "I know, lets contrive up an election." Of course, the fact that W.E. Gutman uses this quote shows he doesn't know much either.
Communities get hit by tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and erupting volcanoes. People die and property is destroyed. These are natural disasters that happen and there is very little we can do about them. We spend billions of dollars researching, designing and installing all sorts of exceptionally expensive equipment to help us "predict" these disasters, claiming we can then insure that it will never happen again.
Drought and famine are disasters were people die, normally without the destruction of property. They can easily be predicted without any expensive equipment and there are often reasonably inexpensive solutions both in the short and the long term. This sort of Human disaster never needs to happen. There is always a way to avoid this type of disaster in the world today. Why don't we do it??
I meant to say in the first paragraph, "Only a stupid State Department (or a lying one) would say the coup-leader president Zelaya was worth posturing for."..
If the USA wanted to look like it had given up support for coups and dictatorships in Latin America, it did just the opposite in the opinions that count. Only incorrigible narco-chavistas in Latin America thought Chavez was the right side, and only a stupid State Department (or a lying one) would say anybody else was worth posturing for.
The best cover for condemning the defense of constitutional democracy is that the U.S. was more interested in its public image among the wrong crowd than it was for doing, or even saying, the right thing.
If there was any doubt, the continued cancellation of visas during January, 2010, by the Obama administration's Clinton-led State Department, way past any "strategic" or "image" justification window, puts the lie to the "image" idea. It invokes the image of the honest little girl who began the chant: The king has no clothes!
Here's the real reason they kept canceling visas to Hondurans with any first-person testimony to the events of 2008. That's how they muzzled the impact of the people most able to tell the truth in detail about the events, and the inevitable interviews stateside with independent local news programs, talk radio, and the Congress.
It was to rob the American people of the voice of facts, and in a real sense to rob those people of the respect for their free speech rights.
Free speech not only benefits the speaker. Even more important, it benefits those who are in listening distance and otherwise would be ignorant of the truth.
Honduras faced off the international socialist mafia alone, and emboldened the forces of freedom in Latin America, and it should take that role boldly. It cannot just leave it to Lobo, let the honest folks charge the country forward..
All Former Honduran Presidents have retired to private practice after serving their term. Orellana & Zelaya, who cannot be president again, obviously leads a small pack living in the past intent on destroying this constitutional principle. The Liberal Party is suffering of lack of leadership as a result of internal strifes in which people have risen to leadership positions by dragging down existing leaders to such an extent where they have been left with no leaders at all. The Party's greatest weakness is its blindness to its own faults.
Zelaya's crisis can be faulted for Elvin's defeat, but what happened in municipal elections? Young Nacionalistas ran against old Liberales and beat their pants off. People want change, not to continue living in the past.
Today the power has been "cycled" (turned off and on rapidly) about seven times. Each time I lose Internet and have to reboot a computer. Today's problems are just an annoyance but they do kill my productivity.
There are days when the power is just out across the city and nothing can be done about it. Even if I had a generator, I couldn't connect to my work because the ISP's are knocked by the power outage.
Listen ENEE, I put up with electrical rates double what I paid in the USA. I put up with the fact that I am labeled an "industrial" used because we use 1000 kWh/month (while my friends in the USA use up to 7000 kWh/month in their homes alone).
I bring in upwards of $500/day to Honduras when I have power. The money gets spent here on children and the poorest of the poor. If you want to throw that money out the window, then keep on with your idiotic policies. If not, please hire an engineer and keep the power running. If you are losing money, and God only knows how you could be given how much you charge, then raise the rates more.
Just please, charge everyone for their electric. Don't accept bribes from large corporations to reduce rates. Not saying you do that, but other people have told me that you do.
Somehow, that 2,000-year-old promise has failed to deliver tangible results. The “Savior” has saved nothing. Convulsing under rising waves of hatred, ignorance, stupidity and superstition, racked by mounting violence, the world still awaits salvation. Russia is drowning in alcoholism. The US is bombed out of its head. AIDS ravages Africa. In defiance of half-hearted reprimands, Sudan pursues its genocidal objectives. Poverty, despair, ethnic strife and shifting allegiances inspire massacres in the Philippines. Generation after generation, desperately in need of social justice and economic equilibrium, forever on the brink of civil strife, Central American states wallow in apathy and inertia. In Israeli occupied territories, Palestinians are fighting to preserve increasingly shrinking fragments of their homeland. Global warming puts the arctic on thin ice and threatens to engulf coastal areas and dozens of islands around the globe. Embroiled in two unwinnable wars, the U.S. clings to the two-party-system – both parties the flip sides of the same tarnished coin, both indistinguishable one from the other except of the partisanships and antipathies they inspire, both tied to corporate wealth, both intent of blocking meaningful reform in the name of capitalism, both involved in larceny against the poor. The gap between the haves and the have not continues to widen. The Church, the richest empire on earth and the moral arbiter to millions, is embroiled in sordid scandals and the Pope, donning gold vestments and ermine collars, sneers at the legitimate concerns of the flock.
The crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth is a fitting metaphor for man’s inhumanity. Alas, its commemoration reminds us all that salvation -- like justice, human rights, compassion, ethics and love -- remains a distant objective, not a policy.
Honduras should avoid like the plague these invitations to offer themselves up to the international slavery of what has proven to be the ultimate in political arrogance, because that's what they'll get, is plagues...
--Alan
Is wanting corruptos who have stolen money from the mouths of the poor to face justice "revenge"? I don't think so. It would be the first step in changing the cycle.
Most of the people who I know have accepted that Zelaya has received amnesty for political crimes, not happily, but have accepted it. It seems a bit insulting to attribute revenge as the motive and to say that some people don't know the difference. If we are going to "forgive" everything, there isn't any point in even having laws, or police, or courts. All those aid organizations could just make direct transfers to the Cayman bank accounts and be done with it!
Why did Hondurans have to hear about Lobo's agreement with Hillary Clinton from Salvadoran President Funes? Prior to that mention, there was never any question that Zelaya could return, but would be subject to answering for common crimes including corruption. Apparently the details of that agreement with the US are secret and we wouldn't even know that it existed if it wasn't for Funes. Interesting. I wonder what else Lobo has been forced to agree to. Where's the transparency? Is that public information in the US?
I don't think that there is anything laudable about Pepe not living up to his promise made during the inauguration of "No mas corrupcion" and that corruptos would go to jail "en punto!" Hopefully, that isn't what he has agreed to give up.
I am simply sickened by the thought of "Mad Mel" returning to Honduras. I only hope that he will be immediately arrested, for criminal charges, and held until trial.
I am also, somewhat desperately, hoping that he will not be permitted public statements and that his supposed followers do not engage in previously violent behaviour.
Sadly, everything that you have suggested might happen to him, has already been done by him and his "goons"
Stephanie, La Ceiba & northern Canada
It is obvious that you have enjoyed, and made use of, an excellant education.
I apologize,sir, but after your comments here and your supposed knowledge and experience in Honduras (I do see that you are based out of Los
Angeles, pardon my spelling if I am wrong) you have sorely wasted said education.
How can you possibly justify your statements regarding "myths" and your explanations thereof?
The true value of an education is how a person chooses to make use of it. Sadly, you have proven how a good education, and a use of language, can be sorely wasted.
Please, sir, attempt to educate yourself about what really happened in Honduras - possibly be actually living here?
I thank Honduras Weekly for printing what you had to say, at least they are fulfilling their mandate of providing a venue for the expression of all opinions.
Stephanie, La Ceiba & northern Canada
Promoting internal tourism contributes to our own citizen's culture, awareness, and national pride, but from the economic point of view and a country-wide perspective it is like passing money from one pocket to the other. This would more likely be a task for the Ministry of Culture.
I stand by my sources and my article. WEG
Drought and famine are disasters were people die, normally without the destruction of property. They can easily be predicted without any expensive equipment and there are often reasonably inexpensive solutions both in the short and the long term. This sort of Human disaster never needs to happen. There is always a way to avoid this type of disaster in the world today. Why don't we do it??
The best cover for condemning the defense of constitutional democracy is that the U.S. was more interested in its public image among the wrong crowd than it was for doing, or even saying, the right thing.
If there was any doubt, the continued cancellation of visas during January, 2010, by the Obama administration's Clinton-led State Department, way past any "strategic" or "image" justification window, puts the lie to the "image" idea. It invokes the image of the honest little girl who began the chant: The king has no clothes!
Here's the real reason they kept canceling visas to Hondurans with any first-person testimony to the events of 2008. That's how they muzzled the impact of the people most able to tell the truth in detail about the events, and the inevitable interviews stateside with independent local news programs, talk radio, and the Congress.
It was to rob the American people of the voice of facts, and in a real sense to rob those people of the respect for their free speech rights.
Free speech not only benefits the speaker. Even more important, it benefits those who are in listening distance and otherwise would be ignorant of the truth.
Honduras faced off the international socialist mafia alone, and emboldened the forces of freedom in Latin America, and it should take that role boldly. It cannot just leave it to Lobo, let the honest folks charge the country forward..
--Alan
Zelaya's crisis can be faulted for Elvin's defeat, but what happened in municipal elections? Young Nacionalistas ran against old Liberales and beat their pants off. People want change, not to continue living in the past.