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“If you are a right-wing Latin American government that’s aligned with the US, you get a free pass in the media.”
As we record on December 4, the Honduran election is still in question. Not in question: the US’s long history of violently intervening in Honduras.
“The United States, through the coup d’etat, was in cahoots with elite power in Honduras that replaced a democratically elected president.”
Industry still argues that that cellphone isn’t really “yours,” in the sense that you can’t fix it if it breaks.
“If news journalists spend time studying and talking to people on the ground…they would get a more contemporary view of Honduras.”
This week on CounterSpin, we talk about the recent Honduran election and signs of hard-won hope in that country.
“$100 billion could make things worse, if you’re giving it to a system that’s fundamentally corrupt, and that has never been fully returned to a democratic state since the 2009 coup.”
The notion of real change after Donald Trump is undermined by a close look at Biden’s actual immigration policy.
“Environmental degradation is about… these US corporations, backed by US government, that are allowed to run roughshod over peoples’ lands in the name of, again, profit.”
A country’s political leaders are likely to be called a “regime” when they do not follow US dictates, and are less likely to be categorized as such if they cooperate with the empire.
The corporate media’s reaction to US assaults on democracy in Latin America, with rare exceptions, ranged from ignoring them to spreading misinformation in defense of them.
“For over 100 years, the US has utilized Honduras as an airport, as a base, a military base, to control what goes on in Cuba, to control what’s going on in Nicaragua, and then, now, to control what’s going on in Venezuela.”
The electoral chaos in Honduras—where a president has not been declared nearly two weeks after voting—requires media to connect the dots between a bipartisan US foreign policy that supports leaders deemed friendly to US “interests,” and the hardship and violence and voicelessness that pushes many to flee the countries run by those “friends.”
Please contact the New York Times and ask it to correct the false claim that the United States tried to restore the democratically elected president of Honduras.
Presented now as a shocking revelation unearthed by government digging, findings that the DEA lies about a deadly 2012 shooting are no surprise to regional experts like Dana Frank—nor should they be to the press.
“Until there is a change in the actions of the Honduran government, and a respect for lives, human rights and democracy, indigenous and other environmental actors will not be safe.”
Donald Trump says the press corps are the “enemy of the people.” The press corps, in turn, say Donald Trump is “presidential.” Where the people find themselves in this dance is unclear.
A Times writer offers the results of Honduran anti-violence programs as “a striking rebuke to the rising isolationists in American politics,” who “seem to have lost their faith in American power.” But she failed to explain how American power paved the way for the shocking rise in violence in Honduras.
But Nazario failed to explain how American power paved the way for the shocking rise in violence in Honduras.
One of corporate journalism’s bad habits is framing international stories on the premise that news is what happens to the US. There is no better recent example of this than the story of tens of thousands of children fleeing Central America.
fter a 2009 coup removed left wing president Manuel Zelaya, many were watching the elections in Honduras to get a sense of where the country—and US policy—might be heading. The early results said the elections were relatively clean, and the leading conservative candidate won the vote. But is that the whole story? Azadeh Shahshahani from the National Lawyers Guild will fill us in.
Also on CounterSpin today, Marissa Alexander is free on bond. But the Florida woman sentenced to 20 years for firing a warning shot in an altercation with her abusive husband still faces a retrial next year. How far has our legal system, and our society, really advanced in understanding domestic violence cases and are media helping? We’ll talk with journalist Esther Armah about that.
