EVA'S UPDATE: MIAMI HERALD - "Hondurans in South Florida Express Support for Shake-Up"

[magbana]

Monday, June 29, 2009
TOTALLY GROSS MIAMI HERALD ARTICLE ON HONDURAS
Check out this quote:

''This man broke the law and he deserved to be taken away,'' Alvarez aid. ``We want democracy in our country and for Chavez to butt out. And we want the United States to give us support.''

From the Miami Herald article, "Hondurans in South Florida express support for shake-up"....WTF?

"Hondurans in South Florida express support for shake-up

BY ROBERT SAMUELS
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Phone cards were the top-selling item Sunday afternoon at Olanchito Mini-Market, a Honduran store along Southwest Eighth Street in Little Havana. It seemed everyone was trying to call Honduras after a political shakeup that many locals felt was a long time coming.

''The military is supposed to protect the country and that's what they did today,'' said Maria Portillo, a 62-year-old standing behind the counter. ``The way the president was acting has just not been correct. This is a country that does not want to be Communist.''

The television in the supply room behind her blasted Spanish-language television, where commentators parsed through details about the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, the democratically elected president who many local Hondurans thought became too chummy with Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

Locals thought Zelaya's threats to rewrite the Constitution to allow him to run again was the final straw. The president, now exiled in Costa Rica, said he was still in pajamas when soldiers burst into his Tegucigalpa palace early Sunday morning, firing gunshots and forcing him onto a plane that flew him to Costa Rica.

Most of Portillo's family is still in Honduras and she said she has become increasingly disenchanted with the lack of progress there. Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere.

''There is so much poverty and so much needed to be done with the schools and hospitals,'' Portillo said. ``There are schools without bathrooms. But instead, the president was wasting his time and trying to make our country like Venezuela. I don't want there to be any bloodshed, but we can not have a president that was inclined to be a Communist.''

So she was thrilled to sell the phone cards with the $1.50 corn tamales wrapped in foil. In the afternoon, she posted a sign asking all Hondurans to protest three blocks away at the Cuban Memorial Plaza, at Southwest Eighth Street and 13th Avenue.

As soon as Kate Bush Alvarez heard the news of the ousting, the 35-year-old picked up her BlackBerry and started to organize the rally. From 2 p.m. into the evening, supporters hoisted blue-and-white Honduran flags and chanted ``Democracia!''

''This man broke the law and he deserved to be taken away,'' Alvarez aid. ``We want democracy in our country and for Chavez to butt out. And we want the United States to give us support.''

Added her brother, Andre Bush: ``We our proud of what was done today. For a small, humble country like Honduras to take a stand -- it gives hope that bigger Latin countries will too and fight communism.''


http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1118718.html

[Joanne98]

1. MSM right-wing spin as usual.