Thus the totally one-sided, coup-supporting, skewed coverage.
"Ousted leader Zelaya defies threat, returns to Honduras; Surprise move escalates crisis; curfew ordered" by Freddy Cuevas, Associated Press | September 22, 2009
Thousands of supporters turned out yesterday in front of the Brazilian embassy in Tegulcigalpa, Honduras, to hear ousted president Manuel Zelaya speak. (Orlano Sierra/ AFP/ Getty Images)
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Deposed President Manuel Zelaya defied threats of arrest and returned home to Honduras yesterday, three months after he was forced into exile at gunpoint.
The government of interim President Roberto Michelleti imposed a curfew as Zelaya's joyous supporters gathered in the streets....
Seeking safety at the Brazilian Embassy, Zelaya had called on his countrymen to come to the capital for peaceful protest....
They never actually stopped; the AmeriKan MSM just stopped covering them.
His surprise arrival had sparked demonstrations in the streets outside the embassy as supporters, who have protested since his ouster, cheered his return. “We are all happy, because he is the constitutional president of Honduras,’’ teacher Alfredo Rodriguez Escobar said.
The return sharply and suddenly escalates the country’s political crisis - challenging the government installed by the coup to make good on its promise to arrest Zelaya and making him a polarizing figure for demonstrations - for and against - directly in the country’s capital.
Such BULL-oney!
The country’s Congress and Supreme Court, alarmed by Zelaya’s political shift into a close alliance with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, backed Zelaya’s removal, arguing he violated the constitution, even if many officials say he should have been arrested rather than sent abroad.
Crowds gathered outside the United Nations compound early yesterday after Zelaya initially went on television saying he had arrived there, apparently trying to mislead local officials. He later appeared at the Brazilian Embassy....
I'm sick of the one-sided, agenda-pushing bias, you know that?
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Baton-wielding soldiers used tear gas and water cannons to chase away thousands who demonstrated outside the Brazilian embassy yesterday, leaving deposed President Manuel Zelaya and 70 friends and relatives trapped inside without water, electricity, or phones....
And OBAMA is SILENT! Oh, right, Honduras is not Iran.
Heavily armed soldiers stood guard on neighboring rooftops and helicopters buzzed overhead....
Where do you think they got those, American?
Police and soldiers set up a ring of security in a three-mile perimeter around the embassy....
What is this, Pittsburgh?
With his embassy the new hotspot in the Honduran crisis, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called Zelaya and pressed him not to do anything that might provoke an invasion of the diplomatic mission....
What's he going to have to do, hold in his farts?
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Hungry Hondurans scrambled through looted stores and lined up for food yesterday during a break in a long curfew called to halt violence that erupted with the return of the country’s deposed leftist president.
Troops and police ringed the Brazilian Embassy, where the nation’s ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, took shelter on Monday after returning home in a daring challenge to the interim government that threw him out at gunpoint in June. Leaders of the interim government have vowed to arrest Zelaya if he leaves the shelter of the diplomatic mission.
Most Hondurans were trapped as well, cooped up in their homes since Monday evening by a government order to stay off the streets, an order ignored by some looters and pro-Zelaya protesters. Schools, businesses, airports, and border crossings closed, though the new government lifted the nationwide curfew for six hours yesterday so that businesses could open briefly and people could buy what they needed.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil used the podium at the UN General Assembly in New York to demand Zelaya be reinstated as Honduras’s president, and the US State Department called for restraint by both sides. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the United States, which has been in contact with Honduran officials, had helped persuade authorities to restore water and power service they had cut at the Brazilian Embassy.
About two dozen people at a supermarket littered with overturned shelves hunted through shards of glass for undamaged food. Thousands of Zelaya supporters marched in the direction of the Brazilian Embassy but were blocked by soldiers and riot police, who used tear gas to disperse them after the protesters threw rocks and sticks.
There are your AGENT PROVOCATEURS, folks! MSM likes to harp on violent protesters, so ANY TIME YOU ENCOUNTER ONE call out the puke!!!
Police said they arrested 113 people after scores of businesses were looted, as protesters skirmished with officers Tuesday night. Zelaya told the Argentine cable channel Todo Noticias that 10 of his supporters had been killed, though he gave no details. Authorities said there were no deaths, though they said one person suffered a gunshot wound....
At an upscale shopping mall in the capital, women wearing track suits and pearl earrings formed a bumper-to-bumper line of orange shopping carts that snaked around the parking lot of a Price Smart they expected to soon open. “This is a nightmare,’’ said Lijia Acietuno, a 26-year-old business manager. “Look what this man has done to our country,’’ she said, referring to Zelaya.
Of all the THOUSANDS of PROTESTERS, the MSM quotes SOME RICH BITCH?
Case closed on the one-sided bias, folks!
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"Dialogue commences in Honduras crisis; Ousted president remains sheltered at Brazil Embassy" by Mark Stevenson, Associated Press | September 25, 2009
Supporters of Honduras’s ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, passed boxes of groceries at Brazil’s Embassy yesterday in Tegucigalpa. Troops still surrounded the embassy. (Esteban Felix/Associated Press)
Going to be a LONG STAY, huh?
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Ousted President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras said yesterday that he has met with an interim government official and begun a dialogue aimed at ending the country’s protracted political crisis.
Zelaya told Radio Globo that he met Wednesday night with an official of the temporary government that forced him out of Honduras at gunpoint June 28, but he wouldn’t name the official. In an interview with the radio station yesterday, Zelaya said the two sides made no progress, but he called the meeting “the beginning to find peaceful solutions.’’ He plans to meet with business and social leaders this week....
Troops still surrounded the embassy, where an increasingly exhausted Zelaya, his family, and about 70 supporters remained sheltered. But life outside the gates of the two-story compound was almost back to normal yesterday: As the government lifted curfews that had paralyzed the capital for nearly three days, most children returned to school, airplanes began landing at the airport, borders were open, and downtown streets were again crammed with taxis, buses, and vendors. Some schools remained closed, but the busy streets were a dramatic shift from the period beginning late Monday, when Hondurans had to scramble through looted stores for food and police blasted water cannons and tear gas at violent demonstrations....
Yeah, where were those, anyway? Pfffft!
A report by the US Library of Congress, released yesterday by Representative Aaron Schock, an Illinois Republican, found that Zelaya’s removal from office was legal but his expulsion from the country was illegal. Schock said at a news conference yesterday in Washington that the interim government should allow Zelaya to leave the embassy, forgoing further punishment, and allow him to live as a regular citizen. He called on the Honduran government to issue a general amnesty for Zelaya and everyone else involved in the crisis.
What, after the U.S. worked so hard to have him removed?
Micheletti has pledged to arrest Zelaya if he leaves the shelter of the diplomatic mission....
International leaders, including President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil and President Obama, have called for Zelaya’s reinstatement ever since he was ousted, and his surprise arrival in Honduras has prompted new calls for Micheletti to step down.
Rene Zepeda, the interim government’s information minister, said Honduras has no intention of breaking ties with Brazil so it can go after Zelaya inside the compound. But he added, “Brazil should make Zelaya be quiet.... instead of unleashing violence in Honduras.’’
It is GOVERNMENT that is doing that.
And HOW THEY GOING to keep him "quiet" -- as if that were somehow Brazil's responsibility!
