"Success" of Honduran election
is a threat to political progress
throughout all of Latin America

  29 November 2009: Embedded internet news sites barely bothered to report tonight that other Latin American countries won't recognize today's post coup Honduran election because its acceptance legitimizes the coup and will encourage other coups. That's as deep as the reports got. It's probably as deep as tomorrow morning's western newspapers will go.
    I just asked Al Jazeera if they're going to leave that fear unexplained. I pointed out that their own credibility hangs on the answer. The same goes for all embedded media that fulfill my expectations. My own credibility should grow a bit, though.
    That 60% of eligible Honduran Continue

  Any American can go to
 Cuba as his own reporter
   Any American has an existential and constitutional right to go to Cuba as his own reporter, even under the "travel ban", without permission except maybe from Cuba. Read Document.

 Cubans choose socialism
    On a 6-week 2002 tour of Cuba, I surveyed 100 random Cubans about a petition reportedly signed by 98% of eligible voters to lock socialism into their constitution after George Bush accused Cuba of bio-terrorism involvement and Jimmy Carter refuted the lie from Cuba but also urged Cubans to adopt the American way. For a story not told in US media, Read Document.