Blog Archives
-
where are the people?
Honduras today is like an Orwellian nightmare. A façade of calm as soldiers patrol the streets with automatic weapons; a theatrical production of democracy in a state that no longer has a functioning code of law; a discourse of peace that so completely fails to convince, it almost seems like it is intended to mock its victims. But the resistance continues, with a resolve that cannot be broken even by the sham elections and the golpistas’ powerful allies in North America. “Where are the people? The people are in the streets, demanding their freedom!”