Of Mice and Moratinos...

The Foreign Affairs Minister of the Kingdom of Spain, Mr. Miguel Angel Moratinos, was let go in an apparent shakedown of the moribund government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Mr. Moratinos was a specially pernicious influence in condemning the constitutional removal of Manuel Zelaya Rosales in Honduras, yet accomplished multiple treaties and protected Spanish interests in those paragons of freedom and democracy such as Equatorial Guinea, Venezuela and Cuba.

Well, maybe the one who should have resigned, may as well have been, Mr. Zapatero, but that is a matter pertaining to the Spaniards themselves. However, echoing the article of Mr. Danilo Arbilla in an article in  La Prensa of today (excuse my poor translation, kind of hard to transfer irony..) "Meanwhile, here in America, it would not be bad to take note of this re-structuring and see if it would not be a good thing to let go of Moratinos clone around here in some international organization defending certain democracies and certain innovative types of democracies without separation of powers and without freedom of the press, right?" If you cannot guess who this is directed...you must be an alien... see Mr. Arbilla article here http://www.laprensa.hn/Ediciones/2010/10/27/Opinion/Zapatero-no-renuncio

Its all about power....

Excellent article by Ulf Erlingsson...http://blog.erlingsson.com/

In spite of repeated requests for any argument for the "Constituyente" we have only received...the echo of our requests...not surprising when one does not want to build something but destroy it....

The Republic is at this point at one of its most dangerous periods in its existence...simply because the vultures are still circling and we have not reacted so far...






  

Surprise, surprise...we are the most corrupt country in Central America

The 2010 Transparency International Corruption Perception report http://www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results categorizes Honduras as the most corrupt country in Central America, and the third most corrupt country in Latin America after Venezuela and Haiti. This is unacceptable and is one more point to ponder about things that need to change in our poor country.

and one really interesting article by Ulf Elrichsson which shares a lot of the concepts that I have been trying to write about in my own blog. Self reliance, democracy, freedom, justice, independence, and building a future on our own, not based on the charity of the "rich countries" or the "ALBA people"...

Hope somebody is reading along...http://blog.erlingsson.com/?p=3964

Why do we lose our focus so easily?

When the national priorities should be security, food security, health, education, developing entrepreneurship, strengthening the private sector, focusing the public sector only in those activities of a public good nature, climate vulnerability, and corruption...we are discussing the constitution and the appropriateness of an "asamblea nacional constitutyente". When/Why/How did we lose our sense of priority? If the Asamblea Nacional Constitutyente is not a priority, why did the current government raised all sorts of speculations by calling a dialogue to discuss such issue?

Why not call on a dialogue to address criminality and the fact that we have one of the highest murder rates of the world (68 per 100,000 inhabitant according to the National Human Rights Commission, 10 times the world average rate..). I believe most people in Honduras have been touched by common criminality or know somebody who has. In my own (extended) family there have been instances of home invasion, pickpockets, armed robbery, kidnapping, and even murder. If this is not important, what is?