Intriguing too, is the choice of the Costa Rican President to act as ‘mediator’ in what the US is calling ‘negotiations’ between the coupsters, and what the Latin press claims, provides ‘an option for the coupsters to back off’. (I’d have preferred to see the discussions taking place in Managua, or San Salvador with someone like Miguel D’Escoto as the mediator).

Telesur is doing the best media coverage on this - with an interview today with an Honduran woman involved in the ‘social movements’ to discuss the effects of the general strike and the isolation of Honduras on the lives of the less privileged (90%) people.

The street action is absolutely unprecedented in Honduras. When one or two hundred thousand people people come out, day by day for over a week, in a country with a population of seven million (a good percentage of which is outside the country) you are looking at a massive uprising. The ‘coupsters’ have a shrinking useby date, unless, unless, the issue is obfuscated, confused and swept under the carpet and the facts disguised.

I might have some differences with Guy, but at least he is one of the few in Australia who has noticed Honduras and the coup.

It is the first step in recognising historical events and changes in latin america on a scale that approaches the Russian Revolution of the last century. Not the same, but on the same richter scale. Latin America seems to have vanished from the map, as far as Australia and the Australian media are concerned. That tells us a lot about ourselves.