Honduran president says 'high up' forces out to get him

[Judi Lynn]

Source: CNN

Honduran president says 'high up' forces out to get him
By the CNN Wire StaffJuly 19, 2011 -- Updated 1431 GMT (2231 HKT)

CNN) -- Honduran President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo has said that there are "high up" forces in his country that want him killed, but declined to give details.

At an impromptu press conference at an event Monday, Lobo was asked by reporters why the presidential home was undergoing security upgrades, including the installation of a perimeter wall.

"It's unfortunate, but these safety measures must be taken, even more so when they are threatening me," Lobo said. "They say that they shouldn't remove (me) because it's too problematic. Better to send someone to kill him."

The president added that he knows "who they are and they are not low down, they are high up."



Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/07/19/honduras.president.threat/index.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. Honduran president says he got death threats (July 18th, 2011 @ 2:49pm

Honduran president says he got death threats
(July 18th, 2011 @ 2:49pm)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Honduran President Porfirio Lobo says he has gotten death threats from business owners angered by his plan to raise taxes to fund better security.

Lobo is giving no specifics on what he says are threats "from a high level." Officials said Monday they are heightening security at his residence and offices.

Honduran legislators in June approved a 5 percent tax on bank accounts of more than $5,000 along with taxes on cellphone sales, mining exports and casinos. It aims to raise $400 million over five years to equip police, the army, prosecutors and the Supreme Court to fight organized crime.

A council of 58 prominent businesses is challenging the law in court, arguing the taxes will be used to fund political campaigns.

http://www.620ktar.com/category/world-news-articles/20110718/Honduran-president-says-he-got-death-threats/

[rabs]

4. Easy to guess who those "high level" people are

The 10 families who own 90 percent of Honduras' wealth and who organized the coup against Zelaya in 2009.

Lobito's new tax plan is going to hit them hard in the wallet. They are unhappy, enough to threaten to off Lobito.

Carlos Flores Facussé (media mogul)
José Rafael Ferrari (televison station)
Mario Canahuati (foreign minister and businessman)
Camilo Atala (financier)
José Lamas (lumber)
Fredy Nasser (energy)
Jacobo Kattán (clothing manufacture)
Guillermo Lippman (sugar)
Rafael Flores (construction)
Miguel Facussé (palm oil)

[Judi Lynn]

5. They would be behind bars in a law abiding society, instead of making the laws themselves.

We read they used the excuse of the coup to import Colombia death squad creeps to "protect" them on their estates a couple of years ago.

From the murders that continue there, as murdered poor farmers keep showing up, sounds as if they decided to keep them on permanently.

It could be they won't mess around with repeating the violent kidnapping for this President, and drop him where he stands, instead. They want people to know THEY are in charge.

[bitchkitty]

2. If this is true, then Karma is a bitch, Pepito! n/t

[harmonicon]

3. What did the bastard expect? nt.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Honduras: workers claim mistreatment at US-owned maquilas

Honduras: workers claim mistreatment at US-owned maquilas

Submitted by Weekly News Update on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 06:44. The labor and human rights of women workers are being violated at two factories in northern Honduras owned by the US clothing firm Delta Apparel, Inc., according to a July 25 statement by the Honduran Women's Collective (CODEMUH). Workers at Delta Apparel Honduras and Delta Apparel Cortés, maquiladoras (tax-exempt assembly plants producing for export) in Cortés department, say management uses harassment, reprisals and threats of firing to get employees to meet excessively high production quotas. Some workers reportedly suffer muscle or bone injuries because of long hours in uncomfortable positions; they say that when they are reassigned due to the injuries, they are called "the sick ones" and "the Barbies."

Delta workers have reported these conditions to various government agencies, including the Regional Labor Inspection Office and the Labor and Social Security Secretariat (STSS), but with no results. Noting that there are similar conditions in other Honduran maquiladoras, including the ones producing for the Canadian firm Gildan Activewear Inc. and the US firm HanesBrands Inc., the CODEMUH statement calls on the authorities to carry out ergonomic studies in the assembly plants to determine proper standards for quotas, work assignments and job schedules. CODEMUH also called on "European and North American buyers of PUMA, Adidas and Nike brands to demand that these internationals fulfill their social responsibilities as businesses stop the violation of labor law in Honduras." (Adital, Brazil, July 26, July 29) (CODEMUH didn't indicate whether there was any connection between Delta and these brands.)

On July 28, Delta Apparel Inc. reported sales of about $475 million in the fiscal year ending on July 2, an increase of 12% over the previous fiscal year. Despite problems in the US economy, the company, based in Greenville, South Carolina, expects net sales "in the range of $500 to $520 million" for the next fiscal year, a 5% to 9% increase. Delta's subsidiaries include M. J. Soffe, LLC; Junkfood Clothing Company; To The Game, LLC; Art Gun, LLC; and TCX, LLC. (Delta press release, July 28, via MarketWatch)

http://ww4report.com/node/10182

[SOS]

7. Stop burning villages to the ground, the people will hate you less

Honduran Police Burn Community to the Ground
Homes, churches, schools, and crops all destroyed as the post-coup government continues to side with wealthy plantation owners over the country's organized farmers

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7111

Obama should reconsider his praise of this brutal regime.

[Downwinder]

8. Hope he is keeping his PJ's handy.

He was given a new set at his inauguration.

[Judi Lynn]

9. He'll be lucky if they deliver him still alive to a foreign airport in his p.j.'s.

That crowd of oligarchs in Honduras is getting a little surly now that they've been able to torture and terrorize and murder Hondurans with absolutely no interference from the current President. He doesn't realize what he's done giving them free reign in Honduras now that they own him and the government. He can't reclaim his honor.

His best bet is a pair of p.j.'s styled something like this:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com.nyud.net:8090/3349/3659699168_31fb100123_o.jpg