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New Government Of Honduras Censoring Journalists & News

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- At the close of the one of this week's nightly news broadcasts, Channel 21 news anchor Indira Raudales made a plea: ``We have a right to information! This can't be happening in the 21st century!''

***If Raudales offered more details, viewers did not hear them: the screen briefly went to static.****

***Her on-air appeal for freedom of the press came as the newly installed Honduran government kept several news outlets closed, detained international reporters, and periodically interrupted the signal of CNN en español. *****

****Reporters for The Associated Press were taken away in military vehicles and Venezuela's Telesur network -- and any other station supportive of toppled president Manuel Zelaya -- are still off the air.*******Stations that are broadcasting carry only news friendly to the new government. Several local papers have yet to publish information about Zelaya's international support in neighboring countries.

****''They militarized Channel 36, which is owned by me,'' said Efdras López, director of the show, ''Asi se Informa.'' ``They brought more than a battalion -- 22 armed men -- took the channel and said nobody could come in and nobody could come out.****

``I own this building!''

The crackdown on the media began before dawn Sunday, when hooded soldiers entered the presidential palace by force and captured Zelaya, a leftist firebrand who had vowed to defy the supreme court, congress and the attorney general's office in a quest to hold a referendum. The nation's media went black while Zelaya was flown out of the country.

***When a new government presided by former head of Congress Roberto Micheletti was installed a few hours later, only the radio and TV stations loyal to the establishment were allowed to broadcast.****

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1122536.html

Same Old Latin America Banana Republic Politics as usual,,,

By miamimike on Jul 1, 2009, 12:44 in Off Topic.

makopp5 says on Jul 1, 2009, 18:40:

And what is happening with the media in Venezuela which is in a much quieter situation?

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billyb says on Jul 1, 2009, 20:46:

The US would also be censoring the press, if it wasn't in bed with the current administration that is. Hear it from the man himself. Brian Williams, an American prepago?

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I never go there" Unkown (at least to me) wise man.

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miamimike says on Jul 1, 2009, 22:45:

makopp5 (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 1, 2009, 18:40 (today): flag

And what is happening with the media in Venezuela which is in a much quieter situation?
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Lets refocus the OP and that is the Newly surpressed freedom of Press being denied in Honduras,,,

"You can take the Banana Out of the Republic but you Cannot take the Republic Out Of The Banana"

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