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Uploaded by on Jan 12, 2010

While Pres. Obama claims that June 28, 2009 removal of Honduran president was a military "coup," viewers are shown images from 1973 coup in Chile without being told that images are not from Honduras and are from 36 years ago.

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  • While Obama refers to this "dark past" and "terrible precedent", the images show the "dark past" and "terrible precedent" of the previous US-supported era of coups. Of course, Pinochet argued that his was not a coup, as do some supporters of the 1976-1983 Argentine dictatorship, but supposing for a moment that Pinochet's WAS indeed a coup, that is quite evidently what the images are showing. Do you get it now?

  • Let me give you a hand: Obama is saying:

    "I think it would be a terrible precedent if we start moving backwards into the era in which we are seeing military coups as a means of political transition, rather than democratic elections," Obama said, "The region has made enormous progress over the past twenty years in establishing democratic traditions in Central America and Latin America. We don't want to go back to a dark past."

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