Honduras Reports Lack of Towns Named for Oliver North

Bizarre situation indeed! Demonstrates yet again, how moronic the coup leaders are. I thought it was worthwhile to add that Guadelupe Carney was a priest from the U.S. who went to live among the campesinos and defend them. He had his own dirt-floor hut and renounced his U.S. citizenship. He was killed by the Honduran military and his remains dumped in a well during the early 1980s. It took his family years to find out what had happened to him. I highly recommend his autobiography, which I read 20 years ago. It may be out of print, but is always available somewhere on the Internet. The title is "To Be a Christian is to be a Revolutionary." It's not only his personal philosophy but a good idea of what the peasants were, and continue to be, up against in Honduras. It's also worth noting here that a U.S. contractor, Roger Norton, in the early 1990s led the passage of a law, infamously known as La Ley Norton, (partially by buying his way through various workers' organizations), that destroyed the cooperative sector by allowing individuals to sell their parcels of land. THat led to promises by banana companies of employment for land but that never materialized and the whole thing was a disaster. It also outlawed what had been a legal practice of campesino land invasions by providing a lot of loopholes for people to excuse their non-use of productive land. I interviewed this asshole in 1992 and of course he wouldn't go on record about anything. One of my professors innocently went to work on the project, even though I had warned her about the whole thing, and ended up quitting when she saw for herself what was really going on. So, now, it's easier for people to try to get land from campesino groups, and invade coastal areas, like Garifuna Villages, for international tourism/hotel development. Though I have my doubts about Zelaya's abilities as an administrator, these kind of entrenched interests in Honduras, backed by the U.S., have been used to running the show there, and it's no wonder there was a coup. It just remains to be seen whether civil society has gotten a big enough of a wake up call to stay organized for long enough to change the system and get rid of these bastards for good. I'm highly disappointed in the Obama Administration on this one. He was supposed to be "different." I guess with Hillary running state, it was a foregone conclusion that I was wrong.