February Update 2010

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Happy February…The height of Awesome weather in Roatan. 
 
The above photos include one good Winter Storm...the Reef Rider was no longer riding the Reef!  It was a shipwrecked Beach bar for a few days.  Sean's Memorial , My gorgeous Grandkids (the two that live on Roatan) and the ongoing Foster Remodel.  It is looking quite stable!

For my February Update I am borrowing, from a great Blog and Blogger , her review of the ongoing Zelaya circus.  She can be found at www.lagringasblogicito.blogspot.com  

I know not everyone followed the goings on last summer of the Government upheaval in Roatan but it really was quite an experience to be on the ground here and watch the Media and Political un-truths just zizzle and pop.  I think living in the States and other so called 1^st World Countries the sense that the truth is not on the surface is becoming more and more tangible but actually watching it go across the computer screen…blatantly misinforming is quite a jaw dropping experience.  Below is just a snippet of what is going on.

There were no pajamas!

Ex-president Manuel Zelaya was NOT taken to Costa Rica in his pajamas.

It was all a lie. The question is, how many presidents knew it was a lie?

When removed from Honduras on June 28, Mel Zelaya was fully dressed up to and including his cowboy boots. We heard rumors of this from the beginning, including from neighbors who saw him leave with the military fully dressed. We also heard that there was a video of Zelaya's exit that was shown to José Insulza of the OAS, who nevertheless continued the lie. But who was going to believe Honduras, when victim Zelaya was saying otherwise to CNN, Telesur, and the NY Times, who dutifully reported it without investigation.

This would be a minor detail except for the thousands of newspaper articles and outraged exclamations of presidents and pundits around the world, crying "in his pajamas!" - which you would think ranked right up there with a bullet in the head. That press conference of Zelaya in his pajamas with bed-hair set the tone and had huge impact on the way that Honduras was treated by the world.

But even worse, Costa Rica and its President Oscar Arias must have known that he arrived fully dressed and donned the pjs and messed up his hair later. Are we to believe that this fact just slipped the mind of airport personnel and Zelaya's escort to the Presidential Palace in San José? So Arias knew about the great lie but said nothing for seven months, making him an accomplice to the lying propaganda spewed against Honduras by Zelaya.

Is there any chance that the US did not know this was a lie? Is there any chance that US State Department officials have not been shown the video? What else does the US State Department know that Zelaya is lying about? What about the crimes? What about the narcotrafficking ties? What about the foreign bank accounts? Will they ever tell the US population the truth?

So now we have a new President here.  Pepe Lobo and Zelaya has been sent packing on a plane to Dominican Republic.  The Country is trying to move on and time will only tell how the Zelaya story Will end.

  January on Roatan saw busy dive shops, better numbers at the Resorts and a huge amount of optimism for the New Year. 

For those of you that remember Sean from the Lily Pond bed and breakfast we gave him a final toast on his birthday.  He passed away December 7^th.  He would have been 50 on January 24^th.

Lots of Birthdays, lots of friends coming and going and so many reasons to celebrate the first month of 2010.