Reply #1: A question re official coups - and slow to call this a coup ...... [View All]

"The U.S. also has yet to officially classify the Honduran coup as a “coup d’etat” which, by U.S. law, would forbid any U.S. aid to the de facto government. $16.5 million in aid for military assistance programs has already been suspended, but $180 million dollars in U.S. aid is still flowing- although the State department says it is under evaluation."

.... what did we do Aristede? We and France (and Canada?) led that along with the World Bank. We couldn't call it a coup d'etat - because we led it? If not a coup, it was a short, undeclared war?

Did the EU call us out for the overthrow of Aristede?

I am an older person. For decades I believed I had plenty of reasons to be proud of my country. WWII soldiers had reason to feel they were fighting a just war. We were very imperfect.

Is it all about conscienceness and knowing more? Have we had just too many decades of the same crap we play on other countries since the time of the popular discovery of this hemisphere?

Negroponte. Reich. Who do we trust here with Honduras in the year 2009? I'm so tired of doing what we do to the littel people everywhere as well as THEIR ground under THEIR feet and the sky above and the waters around THEM. Bless these people. Most only want peace and some prosperity and the best and a better life for their children.

No wonder the slogans of other times are often contained in these words - Power to the people. What we have is the U.S. against the little people and we know on behalf of whom. I'm so disappointed in us.