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While there was a coup attempt in Venezuela, which by the way I don't know how that is working out, here in Honduras we had major riots and road blocks, gassed people and even one that I know of that was wounded and probably killed by a bullet. There were street fights with the police and the rioters, burned buildings, broken windows, burned cars and overall damage, not just in the capital, this happened all over the country.

The reason was a new law that the congress was asked to pass by the executive office that, according to teachers and healthcare workers was paramount to privatizing the whole thing, according to the government it was just a measure to better handle the way money is spent by these two departments. Probably the government is the one lying on this one.

But after big riots yesterday and today, the burnt buildings, a person wounded or killed by gun fire (fired by a policeman in civilian clothing, yes, he is under arrest now mainly because a lot of people were able to catch the guy via video) all of a sudden the congress said that the two points of the law which were causing all the trouble would be voided and we were back at where we were a week ago, no privatization.

I know many people here adhere to the belief that government education is basically crap, a sort of brainwashing and should be abolished, well in Honduras you would have to weigh that against the alternative for most people if education is privatized, an education that would be out of reach for at least 60% of the population. And healthcare here sucks, but again something is better than nothing because private healthcare is basically unaffordable for anyone except the very well off which in this country would be about, incredibly the 1%.

So you see, Venezuela has problems with their socialist government and we have problems that are just as bad, and probably worse because we have never had an oil bonanza, with a right wing government, remember Honduras has never had anything but center right and far right governments. So don't think it's the system its the politicians, military, police and other functionaries who sell out and the businessmen who are willing to go above the law who are the problem.

The problem this time was that the government foolishly tried to attack the school system which has about 90,000 teachers, somehow for the last decade these teachers were forced to lie low and not be opposition but now with their interests being jeopardized they jumped and I think for the first time the government found that they are going too far.