Now that the curfew has been suspended, my wife will be participating in a peace march in Tegucigalpa today, along with other 'white shirts'. Go girl go!!
I'm just curious to see how much coverage the march gets in the international media. I predict that there will be more participants in this march than in the pro-Zelaya rallies, but that this march will get only very sparse attention in the international media in comparison.
Hmmm... I wonder why. Is there a media bias by chance? Prove me wrong media. Go out there and cover the march so that the rest of the world will know that the majority of Hondurans do not want Mel back, they just wish he would simply disappear...
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The media is naive. The WAY Zelaya has been taken out of power is the big mistake. At gunpoint, wearing pyjamas, sent to another country, now the international media loves him! By the way, that's the only thing many news companies know about him.
That poor bastard... It was the worst political marketing piece ever. And I'm from Brazil, a country that looooooooves poor bastards...
Now, very slowly some people are begining to realize that the only wrong thing was the WAY he left the presidency.
Paulo, I agree with you 100%. The way he was removed was a huge mistake. On June 28, Honduras was at a boiling point, and my wife and I were very pleased that the government acted. But as soon as it was revealed that he had been forcibly exiled, I told my wife 'that is a big, big mistake, now he is going to become a martyr.' He should have been arrested and whisked off to confinement on a military base until he could stand trial.
Well, I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so... the media attention to the peace march yesterday was only very scant, and mostly dismissive and condecending.
Now I think the best way out would be if the government and/or the justice assumed publicly that it was wrong to expel Zelaya the way it happened, and investigated and punished who decided to do it that way. That was the only wrong thing, and for the press it would look as a "mea culpa", even though Mel wouldn't return to power.
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