OAS president "not welcome" in Honduras: Micheletti

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Xinhua

OAS president "not welcome" in Honduras: Micheletti
2009-08-14 20:30:24

MANAGUA, Aug. 13, (Xinhua) -- A plan for Organization of American States (OAS) secretary general Jose Miguel Insulza to visit Honduras met resistance from de facto Honduran president Roberto Micheletti on Thursday.

Micheletti told a press conference in Tegucigalpa that the Honduran interim government had written to the OAS and Insulza, saying Insulza would not be welcome because he "maliciously plotted" for the OAS to suspend membership of Honduras and he "had no reason" to meddle in Honduran affairs.

The Honduran interim government sent a delegate to the Washington-based OAS headquarters to consult over the OAS mediation issue. According to the original schedule, Insulza would lead a mediation mission to Honduras. However, the interim government said Insulza would be required to visit as an observer.

Ousted president Manuel Zelaya has maintained that he hasn't resigned, and he will return to Honduras as the legal president. The OAS suspended membership of Honduras on July 4, however, the Honduran issue has shown no sign of abating.


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[Judi Lynn]

1. Foreign policy: Honduran coup was planned as far back as Bush presidency

Foreign policy: Honduran coup was planned as far back as Bush presidency
August 13, 11:15 PM

http://www.jornada.unam.mx.nyud.net:8090/2009/08/12/fotos/020n1mun-1.jpg

Zelaya supporters set a truck on fire in which transit policy was allegedly
escaping after having shot at a demonstrator yesterday in Tegucigalpa
(AP photo)

Several headlines in today's world section of Mexico's daily 'La Jornada' put U.S fingerprints all over the 'coup' which deposed Honduran President Zelaya. The identical AP photo was used as above, with several bullet points. The third point, combined with today's article in the Wall Street Journal, titled 'US decides not to impose sanctions on Honduras', put the nails in the coffin.

Bullet point # 3: this coup originated in the United States with hawks Negroponte and the military - the ex-provost of the UNAH (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras). This makes a reference to Mr. Juan Almendares, the UNAH ex-provost who, among other accusations, stated that the coup should be condemned as a 'barbaric attack on culture'. The whole translated text of his statement can be found here.

At center stage is John Negroponte, whose mission throughout 2008 was to create an intelligence and diplomatic network in Central America in order to regain positions lost by the U.S. in concert with 'neutralizing' left regimes (read: Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador) and the ALBA integration initiative. ALBA was created by Hugo Chavez (brainchild of Fidel Castro) as a means of counter-balancing American influence in Latin America. Its acronym stands for Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas. Member nations include Venezuela, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Honduras, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, the Dominican Republic and Cuba. Notice the absence of Honduras.

According to an analysis by John Grant of the Mrzine Monthly Review, the U.S. has very close ties with the Honduran military, who were the very people that kidnapped Zelaya, and put him on the plane that removed him from the country.

And President Obama never hesitated to condemn the removal of Zelaya, and continued to speak about restoring the president to his rightful post in Honduras. Secretary of State Clinton graciously received Zelaya, when he came calling on Washington to help him get back to his country. Clinton then proceeded to appoint Costa Rican, Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias to mediate between Zelaya, and his temporary replacement, Roberto Micheletti. Needless to say, nothing much has come of this mediation, with the side effect of Arias contracting the H1N1 virus.

More:
http://www.examiner.com/x-2086-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m8d13-Foreign-policy-Honduran-coup-was-planned-as-far-back-as-Bush-presidency

[bemildred]

2. So he wants to shake Ortega's hand, but he won't let Insulza come visit? nt

[Peace Patriot]

3. Micheletti is obviously operating on instructions from John Negroponte, John Bolton

and John McCain--the three John's, hm-m-m, the three whores of the corpo/fascist war machine--to belittle and destroy international organizations that might curtail U.S. global corporate predator power. This has been a Negroponte-Bolton agenda for some time, and McCain has been helping by pouring $43 million of U.S. taxpayer money to the rightwing groups in Honduras who are protecting Pentagon and corporate slaveshop interests in their country.

This arrogant shit, Michelitti, who thinks he can dictate who the OAS includes in a delegation--as if diplomatic negotiating parties can hand-pick their opposites in a negotiation--is not operating on his own, and wouldn't dare assert such of thing if he didn't have powerful backing here. This probably includes Clinton. I don't know if it includes Obama. What we are seeing is a shadow-dance, puppet Micheletti out front, with Obama reading from one script and Clinton and the war-planning Bushwhacks acting out another behind the curtain.