Pictures from yesterday's repression in Tegucigalpa--please distribute
Wed, 07/01/2009 - 08:57 — AP
[disclaimer- I did not take these; I am in DC. They were sent to me from a close friend in Teguz. I am waiting to hear whom--if anyone--I should thank for them]
Wow. Whitewashed from the major news sources is right. Reports in WaPo and NYT mention equal numbers of demonstrators/counterdemonstrators, leaving a "fair and balanced" ambiguous pallor as a substitute for what is clearly being experienced on the ground as full scale military repression.
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Wow. Whitewashed from the major news sources is right. Reports in WaPo and NYT mention equal numbers of demonstrators/counterdemonstrators, leaving a "fair and balanced" ambiguous pallor as a substitute for what is clearly being experienced on the ground as full scale military repression.