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EFerrari

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1. Yes, Marco Caceres.
Wed Jun 27, 2012, 01:00 PM
Jun 2012

Marco Cáceres & U.S. defense/embassy complicity in privatizing Honduran education
Fri, 09/03/2010 - 17:18 — AP

The following is an email I received from a friend today, my translation. Marco Cáceres showed up to at least a couple of the think tanks I went to last year in DC, including one at the Monologue where he stood up and gave a lengthy red-faced sermon on the dangers of Zelaya's Chavista tyranny. The back story on Honduras Weekly, as I understand it, is that it formed when the reporters for the late Honduras this Week (another coup casualty) refused to back the coup. Pipe in with more details on the comments if you've got 'em.
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Today I happened upon an article by the editor of the golpista digital newpaper in English Honduras Weekly, Marco Cáceres, called Radically Rethinking Education in Honduras.

I was horrified at his criminalization of the teachers' protest, to the extreme of ordering them to "[q]uit wasting time marching up and down streets threatening public order, interfering with the rights of others to go about their daily lives in peace, and provoking confrontations with security forces which are bound to be unpleasant and unfruitful" which amounts to a claim that their only reason for taking to the streets to assault and attack police officers, that peaceful and and civil protest and disobedience is violating the right of the rest to peace. You can see who this man is, and that he leads a project called "Project Honduras" at the following website: http://www.projecthonduras.com/marco1.htm.

In the description of the "development model" you can see how he refers to the population as "human capital" and that the model is based on using information and communications technology to "identify, mobilize and coordinate all the available human capital." The claim that this refers to "time, energy, expertise, experience, talent, and contacts... resources that really only have value when people become personally engaged" does not at all change the fact that he refers to the population as human capital.

http://quotha.net/node/1162


What a hilariously clear example of the wingnut viewpoint -- calling the farce in Paraguay "due process". Lmao.

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