HONDURAS DGIC AGENTS STEAL 15 NEW COMPUTERS FROM SCHOOL Pensieve: Cranking Up Fear

If a sinister criminal mastermind is trying to instill fear in Honduras in order to take control of us, he or she is succeeding.

This week, two DGIC (think Honduran FBI) agents were arrested by the police with 15 new computers they apparently stole from a public school, where they had been recently installed. The depths of corruption needed for that to take place are staggering. The agents tried to bribe their way out of the situation, but failed. I think they might have had success if they had been captured by other DGIC agents and not the police.

The day before yesterday, here in La Ceiba, kidnappers abducted young Edwin René Palacios, whose brother, Wilson Palacios is a starter in the Birmingham City Football Club of the UK. As of early this morning, the family had received no communication with the kidnappers.

Today the government is fighting with taxi and bus drivers who are trying to drive up the fare because of the high cost of fuel. At the same time, Revistazo reports that Dagoberto Rodriguez, the director of Radio Cadena Voces, has left the country after receiving repeated death threats in the last weeks, the last one of them an alert by local police that they had heard that an assassination attempt would take place in less than 72 hours.

In the article linked above (in Spanish) they allege that the President threatened them saying that if he were Hugo Chavez, he would already have shut down their radio and TV shows. Frightening! Radio Cadena Voces employees have been sued by government officials (the courts threw out the suit), and one RCV employee, Carlos Salgado, was recently assassinated as he left his workplace. One of their websites was attacked by hackers, and its content replaced with pornography.

Why do I blog about such depressing stuff? Only in the hope that you and I can see through the haze and try to make some sense of this. FDR once said "the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself." I think we need not be afraid about all that is happening in Honduras, but clear-headed. Let's talk about this with people around us, and try to get behind the fear. Who is interested in making us afraid? Only those who would control us.