Toppling a Coup, Part V: The Resistance Cracks the Oligarchy

[Downwinder]

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3371/toppling-coup-part-v-resistance-cracks-oligarchy

[Peace Patriot]

1. WOW!!! A big turnaround of events, with the oligarchy's newspaper now against the coup!

Here is one of the El Tiempo editorials that Giordano quotes (from today's newspaper):

"The savage repression on Monday, August 3, in downtown San Pedro Sula turned out to be totally ineffective: beating and mistreating men and women who had demonstrated peacefully, as police have done since the day of the coup d’etat, didn’t convince anybody of the legitimacy of said coup nor did it deter the protests. To the contrary, many people who were undecided were convinced that the use of violence and force against the people is what comes from dictatorships born of violence…

Any attempt, however small, to reduce the economic benefits of the few families that dominate Honduras in order to distribute them to the majority, is considered taboo. Raising the salary of workers, lowering fuel taxes, offering free education, establishing bonuses for farmers, caring for the forests, eliminating private contracts with the state, those were the detonators of the coup d’etat. And when an attempt was made to reform our obsolete Constitution to democratize political relations and permit the people to participate in decision-making that effects the lives of all, they overstepped their boundaries." --El Tiempo

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I sure hope this means that the coup will be over soon. This is a BIG defection from the coup.