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• [1] vladimir from new jersey July 02, 2009 - 01:36PM

  your guess have poor info about honduras, all media in honduras is own by the elite there for poor polls about the president that everybody wants 80 percent of honduran like president zelaya

  
  
• [2] Steven from Brooklyn July 02, 2009 - 01:40PM

  Chavez is always the focus of the extended manuevers to stay in power, what is never said is that President Uribe of Colombia is also doing the exact same thing, yet you never hear this because it is perceived that Colombia is an ally of the U.S.

  This is Hypocrisy !!

  
  
• [3] vladimir from new jersey July 02, 2009 - 01:42PM

  all news papers & radio/tv is own by the only 4 o 5 families wish have tick ties in the corrupt congress people is marching from all corners of the country the elite media will never show that

  
  
• [4] jawbone from Parsippany, NJ July 02, 2009 - 04:26PM

  Ooops -- I commented on the misinformation about the nonbinding poll on the segment below.

  But, actually, how can we expect our media to report on the policies benefitting the poor in Honduras when it can't report on the single payer option for reforming health care here in the US?

  Lemond socialism (bailouts for the bankers) is OK -- worthy of trillions! Preventing anything "disruptive" to the Big Health Insurance companies continuing to make obscene profits? Worth at least billions.

  Discussing the needs and best policies for the non-wealthy? Eh.

  Only if Obama had taken the lead on ensuring single payer were at least permitted on the table would the MCM* have covered it with any accuracy and fairness. Even then, perhaps not....

  So, how could we expect Uribe's moves be covered? Along with the need to spend seemingly never ending rare news minutes on Michael Jackson, where is the the time?

  *MCM--Mainstream Corporate Media

  
  
• [5] Yuri Rosas from Rahway, NJ July 02, 2009 - 08:02PM

  This is the worst under reported report I have ever heard. I’m surprised.

  From beginning to end (add the quality of the sound on these phone-calls

  I’m not surprise from the one in Tegucigalpa because they’ve been interfering

  but the other one…).

  So let’s start. President Zelaya IS NOT trying to reelect himself. If you guys stop quoting, and start fact checking what you read somewhere else –which is a must in journalism-, you would have found that he’s been saying - for almost two years- that he does not want to reelect himself. But let’s assume he hasn’t.

  The dude was making an official poll. He couldn’t conduct it by phone or door to door

  because Honduras has TOO MANY RURAL AREAS (no electricity or phone). And in these areas, is better to spread the voice through radio, placed a box in a municipality or school, and finally have the people come to the poll’s box.

  What did the poll said? It said: do you agree to have a fourth box in the next presidential elections, in which you WOULD BE ASKED if you are in favor of reforms to the current constitution? SO, it was a poll (a question) about a future question. Why a fourth box?

  BECAUSE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS YOU HAVE, ONE BALLOT BOX

  FOR THE PRESIDENT, A SECOND ONE FOR CONGRESSMEN, AND A THIRD FOR MAJORS. The fourth ballot box was for this question.

  
  
• [6] Yuri Rosas from Rahway, NJ July 02, 2009 - 08:02PM

  The ELITE got so scared… And the rest, we already know...

  Now, the critical issue (besides the war of minds and information) is…

  Do governments alternative to NEO-LIBERALISM, hold a real chance of survival?

  Plus, there is a popular saying in Latin-American that reads:

  ”The U.S. doesn’t get coups, because they don’t have an American ambassador for themselves” So… If the E.U. already call for the return of their ambassadors

  why haven’t we? And by the same token, why don’t we call our more than 600 troops there? They are only “training” right?

  This info above makes me wonder about the defiance of the ousters to the rest of the world. And makes me remember Oliver North, Negroponte, Kissinger; Iran contra,

  the civil war in El Salvador, the ousting of Arbenz in Guatemala… All conducted

  from Honduras. However, we forget and instead erect an statue for Reagan.

  You can press play in this little clip, to check on the backgrounds of some of the military perpetrators of this coup: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/1/generals_who_led_honduras_military_coup

  This new era of information, is what could save us from then new shame of the XXI century. And as we speak, individual citizen’s rights are being taken away from the people there, because the ousters are loosing the grip of things. And there are thousands of people coming from the interior of the country slowly. Because the cutting of the power has made the circulation of info not arrive to them properly.

  
  
• [7] Yuri Rosas from Rahway, NJ July 02, 2009 - 08:09PM

  ...a real test for Obama, democracy, UN, OAS. Et cetera, et cetera.