Nobody in his right mind really understands how you can have free and fair elections under military rule, without a free press and with opposition protests being beat down. And one would think that especially in Panama, with its own history of violent election fraud, the press and the president would be wiser than to recognize the Honduran sham as legitimate. Indeed, most Latin American countries didn’t fall for the scheme put up by Micheletti.
In Panama however, the election farce was enthusiastically reported by Hermes Sucre Serrano of the Oligarch Daily La Prensa, headlining that Hondurans overcame their fear and turned out to vote. Then this fake reporter quotes characters like Jorge Quiroga and Eduardo Montealegre, not only falsely making it seem that they are official observers, but also without revealing that both are have-been right-wing presidential candidates who lost big time from Evo Morales and Daniel Ortega, respectively.
Had this sorry excuse for a journalist done his work, he’d have had to report that the elections were a fraud. Like his colleague Jesse Freeston did. Freeston proved, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the Honduran election circus was a scam. And that makes our president Mentirelli and La Prensa a bunch of fraud pimps.
(Through The Field)
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