Honduras: I did! I did taw a coup d’état!

John Perkins: Honduras: Military Coup Engineered By Two US Companies?

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Memories are short in the US, but not in Central America. I kept hearing people who claimed that it was a matter of record that Chiquita (United Fruit) and the CIA had toppled Guatemala's democratically-elected president Jacobo Arbenz in 1954 and that International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT), Henry Kissinger, and the CIA had brought down Chile's Salvador Allende in 1973. These people were certain that Haiti's president Jean-Bertrand Aristide had been ousted by the CIA in 2004 because he proposed a minimum wage increase, like Zelaya's.

The links to the Oblahma Administration in the USA are extensive.

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The cozy relationship between Honduras's military coup leaders and the corporatocracy were confirmed a couple of days after my arrival in Panama. England's The Guardian ran an article announcing that "two of the Honduran coup government's top advisers have close ties to the US secretary of state. One is Lanny Davis, an influential lobbyist who was a personal lawyer for President Bill Clinton and also campaigned for Hillary. . . The other hired gun for the coup government that has deep Clinton ties is (lobbyist) Bennett Ratcliff." (1)

DemocracyNow! broke the news that Chiquita was represented by a powerful Washington law firm, Covington & Burling LLP, and its consultant, McLarty Associates (2). President Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder had been a Covington partner and a defender of Chiquita when the company was accused of hiring "assassination squads" in Colombia (Chiquita was found guilty, admitting that it had paid organizations listed by the US government as terrorist groups "for protection" and agreeing in 2004 to a $25 million fine).

The Truth About Honduras:

http://yayacanada.blogspot.com/2009/08/truth-about-honduras.html

"The Toronto Honduras Resistance website is a good place for English speakers to get updates.."

A Canadian delegation in solidarity with the resistance to the coup has arrived in Honduras:

"The objective of the delegation is to have a Canadian presence on the ground in Honduras to engage with various sectors of civil society that is in resistance to the de facto military regime. Upon returning to Canada, LASN will build links across Canada in support of the resistance movement in Honduras.  LASN will continue its pressure on the Canadian government to end its wait-and-see attitude toward the de facto military regime and to take concrete steps to pressure the de facto regime of Roberto Micheletti to restore President Zelaya..."

Seven facts on the coup:

1. The U.S. government is implicated. That's the Obama government that all you stinking liberals still support. The US State Department admitted that they knew of the coup, in advance; the Generals that led the coup were trained in the notorious "School of the Americas"; and the links to actual members of the Obama regime are extensive. Military exchanges are still going on, as is economic aid ... and such support of the coup includes Canada as well.

2. ALBA is under siege. ALBA is the economic alliance challenging Yanqui dictat that includes Venezuela AND Honduras, among others. The US announced, even as their clients were overthrowing the democratically-elected President of Honduras, that they would be opening SEVEN new military bases in the Israel of Latin America (Colombia). Four days before the US-sponsored coup d'etat three additional governments joined ALBA.

3. The Non-binding Plebiscite was stopped. There have been quite a few lies about this plebiscite from right wing propagandists and the MSM, which would have given the citizenry a chance to express their views on the current constitution which was imposed during the oligarchy when it was the key client state of the USA in Central America.

4. The Honduran oligarchy is the big winner in the coup d'etat. As in Canada, the losses of the rich in the recent economic crisis are being socialized, ie, passed on to the rest of the population, and this needed to be continued, or even expanded, in order for Yanqui military and other aid to continue.

5. The Honduran population is resisting. Mass protest is taking place which, of course, gets scant attention from the bourgeois media  which lavished gigantic attention on the disputed elections and aftermath in Iran.

6. The US media backed the coup d'etat. The despicable and repulsive lie that President Zelaya was trying to prolong his presidency was spread by the Yanqui media, and regurgitated here on babble of course by the usual suspects, along with cold war justifications and lots of constitutional double-talk justifying the coup.

7. The Obama regime in Washington promotes "negotiations" with the coup plotters, and supports them, giving them time to consolidate their atrocity.

SEVEN FACTS.

USA! USA! How many kids did you kill today??

The cure for what ails their hunger for democracy seems to be more neoliberal medicine. Saddle them with more debt while US backed elites run the country into the ground further. And our own stooges and bankster CEO's play electoral shananigans here while running up a tab on the backs of future Canadians. Crooks and liars and crooked liars everywhere.

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More about IMF support of military-sponsored regime change, and not just the current one in Honduras, over here.

I call bullshit to the premise of this headline. Lula rules down here in South America Things ain't what they used to be. Perhaps the most important event that took place recently in SA is that Brazil defeated Argentina in a soccer match. So there.

Brazil's risky role in Honduras crisis may backfire

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE58M4UG20090923

I read the article "What Some US Reporters Don't Get About Brazil and the Honduras Crisis", and I found it interesting that Giordano mentions the tear gas canisters being used by the National Police as being stamped the property of the government of Peru.

In another thread, here http://www.rabble.ca/babble/environmental-justice/peruvian-rainforest-massacre, there is remind's post #11, which refers to "And that Obama's government just gave the Peruvian military 4.4 million dollars in arms,"

Now could there be a connection between the increase in military aid to Peru, and the evidence of military or police weapons from Peru being used against the Honduran citizens?

A little research on the Net turns up this link: http://www.usaid.gov/pe/downloads/cbjfy2009peru.pdf where there is new money requested for foreign military financing as well as the usual amounts requested for the war against drugs.

I have not found anything further to support remind's assertion of 4.4 M, but I speculate that there is a connection.

So, Uribe is changing the Colombian constitution to run for a third term. Where is the outrage!? America, where are you? This evil, evil, anti-democrat is changing his country's consitution with the ascent of the people! O NOES

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aseY9jcAxAAA

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After three days of debate, the chamber voted 85-to-5 last night to approve holding a referendum, joining the Senate which passed the same bill Aug. 19. Opponents argued another term would let Uribe put too deep a stamp on Colombia's government and compromise its democratic character. The measure now goes to the nine-member constitutional court for its evaluation.

Uribe hasn't taken a public position on the referendum or said whether he'd run in the 2010 election if the constitutional change is approved. He has repeatedly stressed the need to maintain his strategies aimed at defeating the drug-funded rebels that have battled Colombia's government for more than 40 years.

Constitution of Honduras suspended for 45 days, (so they say).

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3465/honduras-coup-leader-micheletti-decrees-45-day-suspension-constitution

Globo Radio and Channel 36 shut down. Because Article 72 has been suspended, the freedom of the press is no longer guaranteed under the Constitution of Honduras.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3468/second-honduran-coup-came-today-because-first-one-failed

Suspension of human rights in Honduras by the Michelletti dictatorship.

Green Party supporters debate Honduras (and rabble) here.

[url=http://www.ndp.ca/press/get-tough-on-honduras-coup-perpetrators]Get tough on Honduras coup perpetrators:[color=orange]NDP[/color][/url]

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OTTAWA - The Canadian government has failed to exert any concrete diplomatic pressure on the de facto government of Honduras in order to end the political crisis. New Democrats call on the government to announce targeted economic and diplomatic sanctions against the Honduran coup perpetrators.

"The situation in Honduras is worsening and the authorities have yet to sign onto the San José plan to resolve the stand-off," said New Democrat Foreign Affairs Critic Paul Dewar (Ottawa Centre). "Canada is lacking the diplomatic will to defend the rights and freedoms of the Honduran people".

If Uncle Sam doesn't provide detailed instructions on the matter, then our stooges in Ottawa do nothing as usual.

NoDifferencePartyPooper wrote:

Fidel wrote:

[url=http://www.ndp.ca/press/get-tough-on-honduras-coup-perpetrators]Get tough on Honduras coup perpetrators:[color=orange]NDP[/color][/url]

[If Uncle Sam doesn't provide detailed instructions on the matter, then our stooges in Ottawa do nothing as usual.

NDPP

perhaps those ARE  the detailed instructions on the matter...

So if Uncle Sam is calling for Zelaya's reinstatement as president of the country and given amnesty from Michiletti's kanagaroo court accusations, then why are our old line party stooges not singing along in perfect harmony as usual?

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091012/world/honduras_politics_coup

Zelaya supporters blast Honduras media crackdown

TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) - Supporters of deposed President Manuel Zelaya argued interim leaders' crackdown on opposition media could derail talks aimed at resolving the months-old political crisis.

"It is a really appalling issue, something right out of a dictatorship," said Rafael Alegria, a leading coordinator of protests against the ouster of Zelaya, the elected president.

A government decree published in the official Gazette Saturday gave authorities the right to "revoke and cancel" licenses of radio and television stations considered to be a threat to "national security" and accused of spreading "hatred."

Last month, the government of Roberto Micheletti, which came to power as the result of a June 28 military coup, already shut down Radio Globo and Channel 36 television seen as close to Zelaya and restricted freedom of assembly and movement.

The new decree gives the coup leaders legal grounds for future similar measures, according to analysts.

"The new decree is simply aimed at silencing us once and for all," said Channel 36 director Esdras Lopez. He charged that Micheletti was trying to keep the television channel for his own use.

Saturday Zelaya and the interim government agreed to create a joint cabinet and ditch an amnesty for coup leaders, one of the negotiators announced.

But the de facto government later imposed new restrictions on the media aimed at controlling the flow of information about the country's political crisis.

Meanwhile, the creation of a joint cabinet and punishment of coup leaders remain dependent on Zelaya's return to the presidency, still far from certain four months into the standoff that emerged from the coup.

Union leader Juan Barahona, one of Zelaya's top three negotiators, told a rally of hundreds of the president's followers Saturday that the joint cabinet, if indeed formed, would be made up of ministers from both governments.

A diplomatic delegation from the Organization of American States left Honduras Thursday without resolving the political impasse between Micheletti and Zelaya, who was forced out of the country at gunpoint.

A rancher known for his trademark white cowboy hat, Zelaya veered to the left after his election and alarmed conservatives by aligning himself with leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. They feared Zelaya was seeking to change the constitution to allow himself to seek reelection.

The Zelaya camp, Barahona added, opposed amnesty because such a move would mean "amnesia, forgetfulness and forgiveness, and we cannot condone the coup.

Talks are set to resume Tuesday, with OAS diplomats maintaining that progress has been made, though the key issues have not yet been addressed.

"If after all of this, they say that there is not going to be reinstatement (of Zelaya), what difference does it make if we made progress on anything else?" Barahona asked. "Tuesday, we are going to get at that key point in detail. If on October 15 we do not have a deal, the talks will have failed."

Thread drift/ The coup isn't effecting their football. Honduras has qualified as the third CONCACAF team for the World Cup./ end thread drift

[url=http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/10/report-from-day-1-of-la-voz-... from Day 1 of La Voz de los de Abajo Hondouras Delegation[/url]

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Fourteen people from Chicago have arrived in Honduras with the La Voz de los de Abajo human rights delegation. They include four members of the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America, two members of Southside Together Organizing for Power, two members of Teachers for Social Justice, one member of Chicago Otra, a member of Radios Populares, several independent journalists and numerous members of La Voz de los de Abajo.

We arrived in the middle of the day and successfully linked up with several compañeros waiting for us from the Honduran resistance. The first stop was Radio Progreso, one of the few radio stations in Honduras that has been brave enough to cover the massive resistance of the Honduran people to the coup d'etat which took place on June 28th of this year. There the director of programming explained how 30 members of the army raided the station the day of the coup and ordered it off of the air. It returned to broadcasting the next day, though several radio personnel have received death threats and several have been beaten and jailed.

[url=http://hondurasresists.blogspot.com/2009/10/day-three-report-of-la-voz-d... Three Report of La Voz de los de Abajo Delegation to Honduras[/url]

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The Honduran congress rests on tall columns to protect it from riots. Before the coup, the indigenous and peasant movements would do mobilizations outside of the congress and spend the night camped out underneath it. Now the army maintains a constant presence preventing anybody from coming near. But the resistance continues to challenge them.

This Monday October 26th the resistance decided to mobilize outside of the congress. The Honduran resistance hasn't missed a single day in the streets in the over 120 days that have passed since President Manuel Zelaya was forcibly removed from power by U.S.-trained military generals on June 28th of this year. Our delegation arrived early and scoped out a place to flee to in the case the tear gas that has bathed so many other resistance protests began to fly. An older man sitting on a bench advises us to go across the bridge to the crowded marketplace in the area of the city known as Comayaguela, saying "the army is less likely to chase people there because they know all the people support us."

Buying time until the mobilization starts, we walk over to the central plaza. Several high school students walking by are talking with pride about the resistance, "they're over there by the congress!" says one to another. A security guard at a nearby pharmacy, upon learning we are here to bear witness and document in the case of human rights violations says, "good, because those those police seem to love to beat the crap out of people. The police and the army. You'll see." Luckily on this day we didn't. But what we did bear witness to was an energy and spirit of struggle that continues unabated despite over 120 days of brutal repression, killings, beatings and jailing.

The grandmothers of the resistance lead people in chants celebrating the struggle to restore democracy and re-found the country through a constitutional assembly. It would be easy for an outside observer to get the impression based on the energy and animation of the protesters that this was a mobilization that had been built up to and rested before, rather than just another day of an every day struggle in Honduras that the coup-plotters have been unable to quiet.

US-backed fascists in Honduras just needed to buy some time to [url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/19/1646201/Computerized-Election-Re... the next election[/url]

And the Winner in Honduras is...the United States

http://www.counterpunch.org/shansky11052009.html

"Despite coup leader Roberto Micheletti's claims that his de-facto government has made 'significant concessions' in the accords,  the real concession has been made from the other side. These are the basic terms both sides have agreed to:.."