US embassy cable - 05TEGUCIGALPA2209

UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 002209 
 
SIPDIS 
 
FOR WHA/PD, IIP/T/ES, IIP/G/WHA, OES, AND WHA/CEN 
EMBASSIES FOR PAOS, IOS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: OIIP, PREL, PGOV, SENV, KPAO, HO 
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION ON HURRICANE KATRINA AND GLOBAL 
WARMING, OCTOBER 27, 2005 
 
 
1. On 10/13 the San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" 
ran an op-ed by Mimi Diaz Lozano entitled "What to do?" 
"Many who suffered the recent devastation caused by 
Hurricane Katrina are putting themselves at risk returning 
to New Orleans in search of their belongings after the 
terrible nightmare that they endured. But it isn't easy to 
get rid of all the emotional baggage and memory of death. It 
isn't easy to look with indifference President Bush's 
obscure attitude, who was criticized over his lack of 
diligence and haste to deal properly with the circumstances. 
His indifference has been repeatedly mentioned in the mass 
media as `terrorist,' the same word with which he justifies 
the massacres in Iraq. The tragedy has affected poor 
countries as ours that are suffering the consequences of 
high gas prices." 
 
"But nothing said here should be strange to you. It is known 
that those who handle politics in the U.S. are cynical and 
disrespectful of human rights. Let's remember: for them 
there are no friends, only interests." 
 
"We must mention that global warming is one of the harmful 
effects of pollution and one of its main causes is the high 
concentration of gases in the atmosphere." 
 
"The greenhouse effect is produced by an increase of carbon 
dioxide (CO2), mainly caused by burning fuels. This puts to 
the atmosphere enormous quantities of gas; these fuels have 
been the primary energy source for agriculture and 
industrial exploitation. Mankind continues to seek for its 
own destruction and death. We cannot live without the idea 
of money, which generates wealth and strengthen power. From 
this perspective it is not difficult to understand the U.S. 
attitude in refusing to sign the Rio de Janiero and Kyoto 
Protocols. Gas emission and global warming doesn't matter. 
No. those aren't important against the gigantic industries 
with the powerful God of money that maintain the government 
in its imperialist place. So its disgusting democracy must 
maintains itself as is, even if the world explodes. Even if 
world explodes the multimillionaires of the world will be 
able to escape to spacial platforms on the Moon or Mars or 
far away where the money, money, money has converted this 
paradise that God gave us." 
 
Williard