Chavez: US Government Giving Oxygen to Honduran Coup
Caracas, July 13 2009, (Venezuelanalysis.com) - Speaking during his weekly television show, Hello President, on Sunday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on United States President, Barack Obama to withdraw all support for the coup government in Honduras that deposed the democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya on June 28.
Although the Obama and secretary of state, Hilary Clinton have made comments condemning the ouster of Zelaya, the US government has thus far refused to legally recognize the coup as a "coup", maintained diplomatic ties with the illegitimate coup government in Honduras, and continued to send millions of dollars in aid.
"Obama withdraw your soldiers from Honduras, withdraw all support for the coup plotters, freeze their bank accounts, withdraw their visas so that this government falls immediately," the Venezuelan head of state said.
"If the US government truly doesn't support the coup, it would withdraw all of its troops from the military base at Palmerola," he added.
Chavez argued that it is imperative that his counter-part in the White House take a clear position on Honduras, and that this represents a test for Obama, who promised a shift away from previous US president George Bush's interventionist foreign policy approach.
"Don't deceive the world with a discourse that contradicts your actions," he warned Obama, "demonstrate that it's true that you are disposed to confront the imperialist hawks, if not, its better that you go away, because you will end up worse than Bush."
US-backed talks aimed at promoting "dialogue" between Zelaya and coup president Roberto Micheletti, mediated by Costa Rican president Oscar Arias ended last week without resolving the crisis.
During a press conference on Friday, Chavez slammed the US initiative of promoting dialogue with the coup government as a "crass error."
"A dialogue with who? With these usurpers? The same people who are now persecuting the Honduran people? Those who have killed people?" he questioned.
"This would constitute a trap for democracy, a danger and a serious error, not only for Honduras, but for the whole American continent," he said.
Fortunately Zelaya walked out of the trap rapidly Chavez said, but lamented the fact that Micheletti was received in Costa Rica as if he were a legitimate head of state.
Through these types of measures the US government is "giving oxygen" to the de facto government of dictator Roberto Micheletti, Chavez continued on Sunday.
"The aim of imperialism, the continental bourgeoisie and the media is to draw out the game...What the immoral coup plotters in Honduras are trying to do is wear out the people of Honduras, wear out the constitutional president Manuel Zelaya, and his government which is in exile, some of whom are prisoners or have gone underground," he added.
"Then there are elections in Honduras in November," Chavez explained, "this is what the game is...we will not recognize any government that emerges, including from elections that this coup government carries out."
"They want to close the path to democratic transformation because they are afraid of democracy and popular power, which is waking up and shaking Central America, South America and the Caribbean."
Chavez emphasised the necessity of protesting in the streets, "like the people of Honduras," and building a solidarity movement around the world in order to defeat the coup.
"The situation in Honduras is explosive... this coup government will not be able to govern, the Honduran people won't be governed by a tyrant like Roberto Micheletti, this coup plotter will not be able to take forward any kind of economic project," he said.
Honduras is paralysed Chavez said, "There are no classes, the factories are closed, the people are in the street, the farmers have left their tractors and taken to the highways, blocking commerce in Central America, there is hardly any fuel. Honduras is a country on the verge of exploding."
"There are soldiers that have refused to repress the people, it's only that they haven't come out [against the coup government], but it shouldn't surprise anyone, if a military current pronounces against the actions that have been carried out against president Zelaya," he declared.
Despite military repression Honduras has entered its third week of protest against the military coup demanding the return of the democratically elected president.
President of the United Workers Federation in Honduras, Juan Barahona, confirmed that protests are continuing this Monday, Venezuelan Radio YKVE Mundial reported.
"We are going to continue until the coup plotters abandon the power they have usurped," Barahona told thousands of people who rallied in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital, in a massive show of resistance to the coup government on Saturday.
Xiomara Castro, wife of the ousted Zelaya also spoke at the rally, which then marched to the Toncontin international airport to commemorate the death of 19-year-old Isis Obed Murillo, shot by the military on July 5 as he protested the coup.
Chavez also condemned the murder in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, of Roger Iván Bados, a popular leader and left-wing activist.
Quoting Barahona, Chávez stated that unknown assailants killed Bados, a leader of the People's Bloc and the National Resistance Front against the coup.
He explained that this killing was part of the selective repression being carried out against political and social movement leaders in Honduras by the coup government.
US position is clear
What is supposed to be unclear about the US position?
"not acting" is "acting".
Zelaya will not return. The US will recognize the government emerging from elections in November.
"Those who cast the votes are nothing, those who count are everything" Josef Stalin
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just read that someone quotes Stalin. Have you EVER LEARNED about how he built his country???????????????
-Gulags
-Work camps
-Forced labor
-Murder
-Forced starvation
The ADMITTED MURDER OF MILLIONS by Stalin has been seen by the rest of the world with amazement as he had millions of supporters. During his 'reign' it is estimated (low estimates by his own party) he forced over 10,000,000 to thier deaths.
His own political party estimate over 6 million arrests of innocent people.
WOW......... Next time, if you want to quote a socialist, pick Evo, Ralfy, Christy, Danny, or even Hugo. Try to stay away from a guy that (you will hate this fact) has:
MURDERED 1,000 PEOPLE FOR EVERY 1 BUSH MURDER........GOTCHA!!!
Should Obama's intentions be
Should Obama's intentions be genuine he will order the "new government" to have a "medical" in the US.
They are all very likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer
http://infoholix.net/category.php?mId=117
Honduras Constitution
We the People of Honduras, in Order to place sever restrictions on the deadly force of government and establish an absolute limit on its monopoly of force and violence, do ordain and establish this Constitution as the highest law in the land.
(1) This Constitution may be changed at any time by a majority vote, without the advise and consent of government. For this Constitution shall rule over politicians, and place severe limitations on how the people are to be controlled by politicians.
(2) If faced with eminent danger of invasion Honduras may have a temporary army, navy or air force, but they must be disbanded in time of peace. Also no foreign troops or bases allowed on Honduran soil unless we are faced eminent danger of invasion.
(3) Police and others employed by government shall not strap a killing machine to their body. Also they shall not display weapons in public unless they encounter deadly force. Further, police shall not use tazers and other such devices that generate a fear of death.
(4) No prisoner may be questioned for any reason until after they have signed a statement giving up their right to remain silent. And anyone found guilty of using coercion or torture to gain information shall serve a minimum of 10 years in prison, with no chance of parole.
(5) Honduras government shall not use secret police, spies, counter intelligence, deception, entrapment or any other form of deceit. Absolutely no secrecy allowed, as secrecy is the root cause of all corruption in government.
(6) Riot police must remain out of sight of the public until after a riot has started. Only regular police may use killing machines, and if a shootout occurs between riot police and civilians, then the blood guilt for all harm shall be on government.
(7) War on drugs is a war between the rich and the poor, and government should not give the rich an unfair advantage over the poor. For it the rich want to terrorize the poor, then let them do it with security contractors. For laws against the drug trade is the use of deadly force to overcome evil, and can only result in a million times greater evil.
Coup was known by everyone but Zelaya?
Not a friend to warn Zelaya?
In total secrecy the Honduran Congress, Supreme Court and generals all proposed, argued and debated until they reached perfect agreement on a coup, and then before Zelaya could get out of bed there were a dozen hooded solders pointing guns at his head -- Unbelievable. And most except it, without even a word of debate about it -- truly Unbelievable.
For unless something changes the dynamics, Zelaya will agree to end all reform, and no president in Central America will again dare offend deadly Empire USA. Comes now light to force such darkness to give way.
Before Zelaya ran for president, the owners of Chiquita Banana and some other rich corporations in Honduras happened to be playing a round of golf, when one bemused, “If we do nothing to stop Chavez and his Bolivarian revolution, this green were standing on will be turned into a vegetable garden for the homeless. Come, let us sucker Chavez into fighting a coup he cannot defeat, a coup we orchestrate in a way that Chavez looks weak and helpless, and a coup that sends a cold chill down the spine of every president in Central and South America.”
So President Zelaya, his family being rich nobility for many generations, increased minimum wage 60% from about $1 to $1.60 an hour, and created welfare programs that could easily be reversed. Then as all politicians in Honduras are paid actors running a make believe government, all were coached on what they must say and do, and Zelaya shows up in pajamas at a foreign air port yelling “Coup!... Coup!... Coup!”
Take for example what Zelaya said when asked by Al Jazeera TV why he did not fly to the U.S. Air Force base in Honduras, “It is not a U.S. base, and our military would be on the runway.” Not true, as we have a lease that prevents anyone but U.S. troops from entering the heavy guarded base. As our supersonic jets and guided missiles are top secret, and the knowledge of whether we have nuclear warheads on the base is super top secret. And as Zelaya did not fly to the base and attempt to land, and as the U.S. did not propose this as a first step to ending the coup, surely we have something most deceitful and suspicious going down.
And so, watch carefully how our hero Chavez handles the way Zelaya and the U.S. are doing nothing but talk about a compromise between dictatorship and democracy, how they can come up with a somewhat dictatorial democracy.
US complicity
The coup plotters have hired Democratic party lobbyist Lanny Davis (personal friend to the Clintons) to represent them.
This thing has CIA fingerprints all over it, and the fact that the coup plotters are still in power is proof of that. If the US really wanted Zelaya back, he would've been back 2 weeks ago.
This is the empire's first stab at the Bolivaran revolution.
Democracy?
Not in the good old US of A, that is the last thing the scum-bags who run this country want to see anywhere on the planet. Democracy is bad for business, educating the people is bad for business, giving health care to people is bad for business. After the 2000 election in the USA, 5 black robed shysters told the American people to get fucked and appointed an alcoholic, drug abusing wartime deserter to be president of the United States. So much for Democracy. America is the corporations, for the corporations, by the corporations, and will kill men, women, and children who get in their way of making a dollar.