OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: NY Times Says Honduras Has TWO Presidents! (Not One)

"We need to sit down face to face," Manuel Zelaya, the deposed leader, said in a telephone interview from the Brazilian Embassy, where he has been holed up since slipping back into the country from exile on Monday."

Zelaya is not a "deposed leader." Zelaya is the President of Honduras. In choosing to call him "deposed," the Times writers are certainly aware of the pejorative color of the word:
Among the synonyms Dictionary.com gives for verb "depose': "boot out, bounce, break, can, cashier, chuck, degrade, demote, dethrone, discrown, dismiss, displace, downgrade, drum out, eject, freeze out, give heave-ho, impeach, kick out, overthrow, ride out on rail, run out of town, send packing..."

The New York Times reported weeks ago that President Zelaya was seized in his pajamas, kidnapped, taken to a U.S. base in Honduras, and from there as a prisoner and against his will, flown out of Honduras.

In "...the Brazilian Embassy, where he has been holed up" -reporting President Zelaya as "holed up" carries a unflattering connotation.

The writer, by his cavalier and disrespectful choice of words seems to make Zeyala appear weak, for his willingness to negotiate with the perpetrators who had co-conspiring army commanders order soldiers to break into his home in the middle of the night.

Modestly knowledgeable readers will frown coming across President Zelaya described as complaining in the circumstance of his having taken necessary refuge in a hopefully inviolable embassy Zelaya issuing instructions to his supporters not to provoke the military into a possible civil war, being encircled by police and soldiers.

"He complained of harassment of his supporters by the security forces, a dwindling food supply ... and the acrid aroma of tear gas from earlier clashes outside."

Dictionary.com defines "complain' as "to grumble about; synonyms include "beef, bellyache, bemoan, bewail, bitch, carp, fuss, gripe, groan, kick up a fuss, lament, make a fuss, moan, nag, object, take exception to, wail, whimper and whine."

For the U.S. establishment, Zelaya is a worrisome close friend of U.S. designated enemies Presidents Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa, Daniel Ortega, Fernando Lugo, and by association, of Fidel Castro. Would the Times, the prestigious mouthpiece of the U.S. military-industrial-financial complex not wish to be helpful and denigrate the character of this extremely well-liked president, by reporting him as complaining rather than pointing out the crimes of his persecutors?

"...inside the compound [of the Brazilian Embassy] where he and ever fewer backers are staying..."

Whoa there! "...ever fewer backers" [!]
Wait a blessed minute! The news wire services are reporting ever more massive crowds, growing in size in spite of the huge military deployment and more deaths of protesters. "... "ever fewer backers" [???]

"I read it in the New York Times, " doesn't make it so anymore (not that it ever did with much consistency).

Dear Mr. New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller and Ms. Managing Editor Jill Abramson, (asktheTimes@nytimes.com), the wording in the title of the above described article seeks to belittle the president of Honduras only current Honduran president who has consistently demonstrated a desire that none of his follow citizens expose themselves to danger of injury in demonstrating peacefully for their president's return to his rightful elected the office in which he has severed since January 27 2006.

The task taken on by the perennial U.S. foreign policy defending New York Times is obvious. President Obama felt forced to join all the rest of the world in continuing to recognize Zelaya as the only president of Honduras. At the same time, however, the State Department works furiously to balance this with treating the coup installed government as deserving de facto acceptance for the negotiations it is insisting take place.

The Obama administration, stalls from cutting all aid to the establishment in Honduras, well connected with United States corporation and military for years as a cooperating client state.

"In Washington, a State Department spokesman, Ian C. Kelly, said the United States welcomed the Micheletti government's invitation for foreign diplomats to visit to help reach a deal." "Reach a deal" , one supposes, acceptable for U.S. interests, both business and military - but not necessarily good for the poor people of Honduras.

Without a compliant media, capitalism and imperialism as described by Thorstein Veblen, Karl Marx, Lenin, Che Guevara and Martin Luther King Jr. could not continue its perfidious world reign in which today one child dies of hunger every three seconds.

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