Argentine Embassy’s Timerman flies the flag of constitutionality and of the legitimacy of Honduran P

He is the son of the late Jacobo Timerman and is continuing his father's legacy.


Molly Ivins

November 14 (1999)
AUSTIN, Texas — One of the great heroes is gone. Jacobo Timerman, the Argentine journalist and great warrior for human rights, has died.

With awe and reverence, I report that Timerman at one time or another ticked off practically everybody. He was of the Saul Alinsky school when it came to popularity — Alinsky, the great Chicago radical, was once given some award and afterward said to his organizers, "Don't worry, boys, we'll weather this storm of approval and come out as hated as ever."

I would call Timerman a fearless man, but he wasn't fearless. He was brave.

His book "Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number" — the account of his 30-month imprisonment and torture by the Argentine military in the late 1970s — is one of the most poignant testimonies ever written by a political prisoner and will remain a classic of world literature. In it, he never poses as a hero but instead writes frankly about the terror and loneliness he experienced, weeping silently in his cell as his captors passed and spat the word "Jew!" at him.

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wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobo_Timerman

but didn't see NEARLY this much information on the father.

Thank you.

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Father and son.

most of the leadership of South America and about half of the leadership of Central America--ambassadors from Argentina, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil "and the recently restored Venezuelan ambassador to the U.S., the highly regarded Bernardo Álvarez," getting together in celebration, and networking in Washington. I hope they triumph in the long, hard struggle for democracy in Latin America, and I think they will--but that struggle is obviously not over, with our rightwing forces, both inside and outside the Obama government, working hard to defeat it, with intense psyops/disinformation campaigns and schemes like those suggested in Donald Rumsfelds Dec '07 op-ed in the Washington Post, "The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants Like Chavez." When Rumsfeld calls someone a "tyrant," the next thing we know we're slaughtering a hundred thousand people in one week of bombing alone, to steal their oil. That op-ed should have sent alarm bells through the country, but it just slipped away, having done its bit to contribute to the "Big Lie" about Chavez.

Rumsfeld urges "swift action" by the U.S. in support of "friends and allies" in South America. Those "friends and allies" would be the rich, rightwing elites (getting millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars through John McCain's "International Republican Institute" via USAID-NED budgets) who perpetrated the U.S.-supported rightwing coup in Venezuela, in 2002, who led the U.S.-funded and organized white separatist secession coup in Bolivia in late 2008, and who just dragged the President of Honduras out of bed at gunpoint, flew him out of the country in a plane with blackened windows, declared martial law, shut down the media and began using live ammunition on peaceful protestors.

These fascist groups, in collusion with the worst elements of our own benighted national political establishment and our corpo/fascist rulers, are even now plotting more coups, assassinations, destabilization, lies, propaganda and all manner of assaults against the democracies of Latin America--the countries that the above ambassadors represent and others (Uruguay, Paraguay, El Salvador, Bolivia). The only countries that the U.S. establishment really supports are, no. 1, our biggest and best "friend," Colombia--which has one of the worst human rights records on earth--and on whom our politicians lard $6 BILLION in military aid, and now, seven more U.S. military bases!--and a couple of others whose leaders love the failed, corrupt, murderous "war on drugs" and "free trade" for the rich (Mexico, Peru). It's a sad, sad tale, who U.S. 'friends and allies' are, in Latin America. And it is an even sadder tale, who the U.S. "enemies" are--the leaders who fight for universal health care, education, bootstrapping the poor, maximum citizen participation, use of the country's resources to benefit the people who live there, the rights of the indigenous, gender equality, regulation of the public airwaves for fairness and balance, transparent elections--all the things that we once stood for in the world.

Billions of our hard-earned tax dollars--and those of our children's children--are now going to defeat these things. Our corpo/fascist media demonizes such leaders as "dictators"--the opposite of the truth. Our covert agencies are working overtime on psyops and disinformation. And our military is eyeing the essentially undefended oil reserves in Venezuela, Ecuador and other countries, and strategizing how to get control of them.

These leaders deserve a celebration. They and their people have done the impossible--they have pulled Latin America out of the mire of dictatorships and bloodshed and extreme poverty and disempowerment of the majority that local fascist elites and our government plunged them into over the last four decades. Individually and collectively, they have done an amazing thing, and they have gone further, and are now creating the institutions by which they can pull together economically and politically--new institutions like UNASUR, the new South American "common market," the Venezuela-inspired Bank of the South, and the Venezuela-inspired ALBA barter trade group. This is the future of Latin America, if only they are allowed the peace and non-interference they need to develop it. And they have really only one enemy--U.S. fascists and warmongers.