The protest shown in this video took place in Venezuela. Hugo Chavez has set up an educational law to control children’s minds from infancy. No parents will have the right to educate their children against the will of the state.

The rock throwers, as usual, are those in favor of 21rst Century Socialism. Surprising? No. Chavez sent Carlos Perez Vivas, the organizer of this protest to jail, for the actions of his enemies. Rich irony, you could smelt it and get steel.

This piece of news is not surprising. Insulza rejected Micheletti’s proposal, -YAWN-.

Is this more misreporting or is Micheletti really offering to resign?

The following cry for help can be found in this article at OpenMarket.org:

MIGUEL:
I´m hondurian. I live in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, employed of a Bank. I live of my monthly salary. Don´t have own house (I rent) and father of two kids. I want to say the world please leave us alone. Let us solve our own problems. Most of hondurians don´t want Zelaya back. We don´t understand the USA actions against our little, pour and proud country. All we want is defend our freedom against bad, corrupts leaders as Zelaya. PLease help us, don´t destroy us. Our country is not a danger to USA or any other country. God bless you all.

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215 million dollars were promised to Honduras in the Millennium Challenge for agricultural and transportation development. During Zelaya’s presidency, 63 million dollars were given. Has this money been reaching it’s intended recipients?

Secretary of State Clinton is pondering whether to deny the remaining 152 million dollars by declaring the events of the 28th of June a “military coup” in retaliation for this week’s failure of the OAS to force Micheletti to sign the San José accord.

Who does this affect? Farmers and farmers only. Is this fair?

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Disgusting. Insulza has invited Zelaya to address the OAS again. This clearly shows how unwilling Insulza is to change his views, and reveals this week’s OAS chancellors misison as a meaningless charade.

Nevertheless, in his report before the OAS today, he at least expressed understanding of the single unacceptable clause in the San Jose Accord: the return of Zelaya as president. “No one we spoke with was neutral or in favor of this” he said. He also remarked that Micheletti’s view was that Zelaya was no longer president when he was exiled to Costa Rica, and his admission of this as the wrong thing to do.

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In this video, recorded on July 29, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen speaks in the House of Representatives to defend the decision of the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court of removing Manuel Zelaya from the presidency of Honduras.

Whoever broke into the studios of Pro-Zelaya radio station Radio Globo and TV’s channel 36, and threw acid into the transmitters, did his country a great disservice, for whatever reason they did it.

Yes I am against the message the station and TV channel broadcast, but this type of attack only legitimizes them.

El Heraldo reports that the U.S. has suspended non-urgent non-immigrant visas for Hondurans as a “measure of support” for the chancellor’s meeting in Tegucigalpa. The US Embassy in Tegucigalpa has not yet published this on it’s website as of now. Reuters calls it a “reduction of visa services”, and elicits from my lips a wry smile. How nicely put.

I am saddened and disappointed at Mrs. Clinton’s decision. I am glad I am not in the U.S. Even less now, with all I owe to Mr. Walton’s generosity, do I want to live there or someday become a U.S. Citizen.

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Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro both speak positively of Obama, which simply sends shivers down my spine. Are they using praise as a double sided weapon? Are they trying to legitimize themselves by supporting the US president? I don’t believe Obama is in the same league with them; is this a trick?

Both Chávez and Fidel radically alter their enemies’ images, for an imaginary enemy is easier to attack than a real one. By making their enemies ridiculous or vile, they embarrass any who would defend them. Atheists attack the Flying Spaghetti Monster instead of God, for instance. Therefore, Bush becomes the devil for Chavez, and for Fidel, Obama’s enemies are “the racist right” who “hate Obama for being an African American”.

But why do they defend him at all? Look at the way they seek to be friends with him. Are they are secretly hoping he will reject their friendship, to force the US into a more familiar place as their great enemy? I will reject the idea that Obama really is their friend, and a socialist, until I hear him say it himself. Zelaya did, when he called Capitalism “the most repugnant concept of justice harbored by human beings”. Is it a clear endorsement of socialism they seek from Obama?

Obama remains silent to Fidel and Chávez’s overtures, just as he is now silent about Honduras. Very wise, Obama, remain silent, your words are too powerful. Calladito te ves más bonito. Just look at the scandal your rash words caused with the Cambridge police. Look at the harm you did when you condemned an apparent coup even before knowing the facts. But your silence also astonishes and frightens me. Do you know more than you reveal?

Where is my compass? I hardly know the world, where are we going?

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