Chuckle of the day -- Lobo is being offered pyjamas

[rabs]

Lobito says he has been getting threats because of a dispute over a television channel license that was at first assigned to a businessman named Elías Asfura and later turned over to the government.

"Algunos piensan que me van asustar, me amenazan y ofrecen hasta pijamas", expresó el gobernante en medio de una controversia causada por la asignación de la frecuencia de canal 8 al gobierno, que es reclamada por el empresario Elías Asfura, en virtud de un fallo judicial.

-- "Some think they are going to frighten me, they threaten me and even offer pyjamas..."

El presidente había denunciado anteriormente que había recibido mensajes telefónicos diciéndole que se comprara "una buena pijama".

-- The president previously had denounced that he had received telephone calls telling him to buy "nice pyjamas."


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Seeing as how Honduras is the original banana republics ...

Banana pyjamas would be most apt.


Presidente Honduras dice que le ofrecen "pijamas"

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

El presidente de Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, reiteró este lunes que ha recibido amenazas con ofertas de "pijamas" en alusión al derrocamiento del ex mandatario Manuel Zelaya en junio de 2009, cuando fue capturado por militares y llevado a San José, Costa Rica.

"Algunos piensan que me van asustar, me amenazan y ofrecen hasta pijamas", expresó el gobernante en medio de una controversia causada por la asignación de la frecuencia de canal 8 al gobierno, que es reclamada por el empresario Elías Asfura, en virtud de un fallo judicial.

El presidente había denunciado anteriormente que había recibido mensajes telefónicos diciéndole que se comprara "una buena pijama".

Lobo fue juramentado como mandatario de Honduras el 27 de enero de 2010, tras ser electo en los comicios generales el 29 de noviembre de 2009.

La controversia sobre la frecuencia del canal 8 se remonta a 2007, cuando la Comisión Nacional de Telecomunicaciones se la concedió inicialmente al empresario Elías Asfura, pero luego se la entregó al gobierno.

Diversos medios, la Asociación de Medios de Comunicación y el Colegio de Periodistas se han pronunciado en contra de la asignación de canal 8 al gobierno.

Lo mismo hicieron este lunes el Consejo Hondureño de la Empresa Privada (COHEP) y miembros de la Unión Cívica Democrática.

Sin embargo, el Ejecutivo ha defendido la decisión del Congreso de asignar la frecuencia al Estado.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. Looks as if he has bitten the hand which feeds him! Who'd a thunk it?

Any ideas on what's up with them? I haven't heard anything beyond the fact the targeted assassinations of leftists hasn't missed a beat between Goriletti's seizure of power, and now.

If they trace the calls they'll probably see they're coming from Goriletti's house.

PJ Republic. That would work!
http://image.become.com.nyud.net:8090/imageserver/s4/709429699-150-150-5-32/thumbnail.jpg

Camouflage PJ's.

[rabs]

3. Coincidence ? Lobo's plane makes emergency landing at Palmerola

Breaking news -- about an hour ago as write this

Coincidence??

Lobo and some of his ministers were flying to New Orleans this afternoon when his jet had to make an emergency landing at the U.S. base.

La Prensa says "possible technical problem." Plane is being inspected, not known at this moment whether Lobo and friends will continue on to New Orleans.


Según información preliminar proporcionada a LA PRENSA la aeronave tuvo las fallas en el sector de la Oki en el departamento de Comayagua a unos 8 mil pies de altura. El clima del sector actualmente es lluvioso.

An alarm went off when the plane was at 8,000 feet. Weather was rainy.

"Se escuchó un estruendo y de repente estábamos aterrizando en Palmerola", informó Bendaña al Twitter de Red Informativa.

"A loud noise was heard and all of a sudden we were landing at Palmerola." (Health Minister Arturo Bendaña who was on the plane.


http://www.laprensa.hn/Apertura/Ediciones/2010/09/06/Noticias/Avion-de-Lobo-aterriza-de-emergencia-en-Palmerola

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edit -- typo

[Judi Lynn]

4. Sounds a little rocky for Lobo right now, doesn't it?

Gets threatening phone calls, then his airplane gets in trouble mid-flight, and he's forced to land.

He probably should consider hiring his OWN body guards.

Wow.

He was probably headed to New Orleans to take advantage of cheap property prices....

[rabs]

5. Actually it was an educational and trade mission

Fifty Honduran students from poor families have been granted scholarshipa to study in La., such as at Tulane.

Lobito is to meet with the mayor of NO, Mitch Landrieu, and with the guv, Bobby Jindal. Lobo and his pals are looking for U.S. investments in Honduras.

There is an intriguing last paragraph to the story;


Por su parte los sindicatos públicos y privados anuncian paro de labores mañana a las seis de la mañana tras seguir negociando con Lobo el aumento al salario mínimo. Los gremios anunciaron que el jueves seguirán las negociaciones.

Public and private unions announced a strike tomorrow as they negotiate an incrrease in minimum salaries with Lobo. The syndicates said they would continue negotiations on Thursday. (The automatic salary increases under Zelaya were scrapped under goriletti and Lobo.)

Btw, I saw last night that the National University in Teguz had been "militarized" and protesting teachers and others had been driven out by force by police. The teachers and other workers are demanding back wages and other benefits owed to them for months.

In most of Latin America, a university campus is considered autonomous territory, off limits to the police and military.

Things are happening, but it does not make the English-language news.

[Judi Lynn]

6. The timing for his trip is conspicuous, then. Guess they plan to possibly get vicious with strikers.

Meanwhile, he'll be above the fray since he's gone. That'll work out well for him.

Heard about them overturning Zelaya's minimum wage raises. That says it all.

I read that the reason university campuses have been placed off limits to armed people is because of the destruction they caused during the bloodbaths under right-wing Presidents and military dictatorships. I heard that's how they arrested Victor Jara, too, after storming the university where he taught. Unbearable to imagine.

So now, UNDER a fascist government again, they are sending soldiers in to disrupt and harm people all over again.

Well, sometimes things go right when you least expect it. I'll bet no one ever thought the power of the military dictatorships elsewhere would be broken, but somehow it happened.

Thanks for the info. We DON'T get info. here unless it denigrates the left, and promotes the right, do we? Thanks.

[Downwinder]

7. Violation of the Autonomous University. Militarization! Repression! Savagery!

http://www.quotha.net/node/1164

[rabs]

8. thanks for this

for confirming the police invaded the university. I only saw a brief story on the golpista media. Quotha has the details.

btw, a commenter on one of the golpista newspaper asked;

"Was Lobo dressed in pyjamas?" when his plane made the emergency landing at the U.S. base.

:rofl:


edit -- typo

[Judi Lynn]

12. The rector called for the cops to get after them. Unbelievable! The cops beat a security guard

who had gone off duty and was wearing street clothes, and they also beat a female maintainance worker, in addition to the students.

NO one would expect to see this on any university, not anywhere.

That U.S.-supported coup really helped the Honduran people, didn't it? Things haven't been this evil in Honduras since Ronald Reagan's underhanded, genocidal war on Central America.

[flamingdem]

9. I wonder! Very interesting nt

[Peace Patriot]

2. WHERE ARE THE NEW YORK SLIMES, ASSOCIATED PUKES, MIAMI HAIRBALL, ROTTERS,

WALL STREET URINAL, WASHINGTON PSST, BB-CONS, et al, HEADLINES ABOUT FREEDOM OF CORPORATE SPEECH IN HONDURAS????!!!!

Chavez did this, they would burn him in effigy on FAUX News, Simon Romero would have a bowel movement, and Mary O'Grady would...well, I'm not sure what she would do...fly down to Venezuela and stick her high heel in his eye?

FREEDOM OF GODDAM SPEECH, O Oligarchs! WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE ARE THE DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM OF GODDAMN CORPORATE SPEECH?! THE SONS OF LIBERTY AND THEIR CHATTELS?! THE FIGHTERS FOR RCTV'S GOD-GIVEN RIGHT TO FOMENT ANY DAMN COUP IT PLEASES, KIDNAP ANY PRESIDENT, SUSPEND ANY CONSTITUTION AND ALL CIVIL RIGHTS, AND BROADCAST CARTOONS WHILE THEY DO IT?

WHERE OH WHERE IS HUMAN RIGHTS SWAT? WHERE IS REPORTERS WITHOUT BRAINS? SLIME MAGAZINE? NEWSWEAK?

THE. GOVERNMENT. GOT. THE. TV. CHANNEL! IN JIM DEMINT'S LITTLE FIEFDOM! YOU TWITS! YOU LYING SCUM! YOU WRITERS OF NASTY HEADLINES ABOUT HUGO CHAVEZ! YOU BROADCASTERS OF DONALD RUMFELD'S COMPARISON OF HUGO CHAVEZ TO ADOLPH HITLER! YOU PUBLIISHERS OF DONALD RUMSFELD'S "THE SMART WAY TO DEFEAT TYRANTS LIKE CHAVEZ"! YOU LAPDOGS OF MASS MURDERERS!

WHAT ABOUT HONDURAS, HUH?! HUH??? WHAT ABOUT FREEDOM OF GODDMAN SPEECH FOR OLIGARCHS IN HONDURAS!?

[flamingdem]

10. ha ha definately hear ya Peacetrain! nt

[Judi Lynn]

13. We recall during the coup last year, the coup government also sent troops in to wreck

the tv station they didn't like, and the radio station, arresting personel, pouring liquid into the control boards which blew up transmission in both places, and on another occassion, one of the places got video of the bastards taking ALL the new equipment they had managed to put up, and walking away with it.

People all over the world were able to watch at their computers the military taking their station apart and removing their instruments.

There were probably visitors from the Republican U.S. Congress meeting with Micheletti during those times. They beat tracks to Tegucigalpa as soon as the President asked them not to do it. Jim DeMint (DeMental) and his clavern, and the Miami Cuban "exile" contigent with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

[EFerrari]

11. Is that like offering him cement galoshes?

That's what it sounds like. :)

[rabs]

14. General strike has paralyzed Honduras today

Frente de Resistance Nacional and Central Obreras called for a one-day work stoppage nationwide. They are demanding boost in minimum salaries, fixing of pension laws, return of Zelaya and other demands.

Was watching live feed on Cholosatsur earlier, lots of people in the streets. Some roads and bridges were blocked. But so far apparently no serious injuries.

There were a few clashes with cops and a lot of windows were smashed with rocks. It is not knownwho threw the rocks -- the Frente had called for no violence or vandalism.

Of course the golpista el heraldo and la prensa are blaming Zelaya.

Meantime, lobito bugged out to New Orleans last night to be convientently away for the day. Official reason is that he is in La. to arrange about 50 cholarships for Honduran students and to try to get La. investment in Honduras.

Gotta be the only president who goes begging for scholarships.

:hi:

[flamingdem]

15. Sounds like things are caliente por alla

Thanks for the updates

[Judi Lynn]

19. Demonstration planned September 15th, more details:

Honduras: resistance petitions, plans strike
Submitted by Weekly News Update on Mon, 09/06/2010 - 23:34.

As of Sept. 1, Honduras' National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP) said it had collected 1,019,765 signatures on petitions calling for a constituent assembly to rewrite the country's 1982 Constitution and for the safe return of former president José Manuel ("Mel") Zelaya Rosales (2006-2009) from his exile in the Dominican Republic. One of the FNRP's coordinators, union leader Juan Barahona, called reaching the number "a triumph" and said he was "sure we'll pass the minimum goal we proposed of 1.25 million signatures" by Sept. 15, the final day of the campaign. (The population of Honduras is about 7.5 million, and there were 4.6 million registered voters in the country at the time of the November 2009 elections.)

The FNRP, which formed in response to Zelaya's overthrow in June 2009, started the petition campaign on April 20 (we erroneously reported that the campaign had already gathered 1.2 million signatures in June). (Prensa Latina, Sept. 1; El Tiempo, San Pedro Sula, Sept. 2) The coup against Zelaya came on a day when Hondurans were to vote in a non-binding poll on whether to include a referendum on the constituent assembly in the November 2009 general elections.

The FNRP is planning to hold a demonstration on Sept. 15, the last day of the petition drive and the 189th anniversary of Central America's declaration of independence from Spain. The group is also calling for a "civic strike" on Sept. 7, which Barahona indicated would be a sort of preview of a national general strike the main labor federations are planning if President Porfirio ("Pepe") Lobo Sosa fails to increase the national minimum wage.

The minimum wage, currently 5,500 lempiras a month (about $290), was supposed to be raised in April, but the business sector blocked the pay hike. When negotiations between the unions and businesses fail to resolve the issue, the president has the authority to set the minimum wage, but Lobo still hasn't taken action. One problem may be external pressure. The Honduras Culture and Politics blog notes: "In order to convince the International Monetary Fund that Honduras qualifies for a standby line of credit, Lobo Sosa must prove to them that he has contained government costs in the 2011 government budget, especially salaries…. Obviously, adding a large increase to the budget, specifically for salaries, would undercut meeting that target." (Red Morazánica de Información, Honduras, Aug. 31 via FNRP website; Adital, Brazil, Aug. 31; Honduras Culture and Politics, Sept. 2)

http://ww4report.com/node/9076

[Joe Chi Minh]

16. or sleeping with the fishes....?

[EFerrari]

17. You don't answer the phone -- when you're DEAD.

[Joe Chi Minh]

18. I thought it was for a future need(!). Or, more likely, I scanned the post too quickly

to grasp what it was about.

[rabs]

20. Massacre in San Pedro Sula this afternoon; at least 15 dead

Victims, mostly young men in their teens and 20s, were in a shoe-repair shop when gunmen showed up and opened fire. Thirteen killed at the scene, two died in hospital.

This happened about three hours ago so details are skimpy as to why, who and motive.

From golpista El Heraldo

http://www.elheraldo.hn/Sucesos/Ediciones/2010/09/07/Noticias/Acribillan-a-15-jovenes-en-San-Pedro-Sula


La Prensa of SPS reports 16 killed and several wounded

[flamingdem]

21. This sounds drug related without knowing more

There are more gang members and related drug issues in Honduras than all of the other Central American countries. I think it's 45,000.