Honduras protests Venezuelan assistance to ex-President Zelaya

[Judi Lynn]

Honduras protests Venezuelan assistance to ex-President Zelaya
Source: Reuters - Fri, 26 Jun 2015 01:36 GMT

TEGUCIGALPA, June 25 (Reuters) - Honduras lodged a formal complaint on Thursday against Venezuela, accusing the South American country of helping fund former leftist President Manuel Zelaya's travel to Washington where he criticized the current Honduran government.

In a letter, the Honduran foreign ministry accused the Venezuelan embassy in Washington of providing "support, equipment and logistical assistance" to Zelaya, currently an opposition lawmaker, as well as his wife Xiomara Castro, who ran unsuccessfully for president last year.

While in Washington earlier this week, Zelaya and Castro met with the new head of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro.

&quot Honduras) expresses its firm opposition to these acts that we consider an interference in the internal affairs of the Honduran state," the foreign ministry said in a letter to the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

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http://www.trust.org/item/20150626013744-2qdz4/

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[Zorro]

1. IOKIYAC

[roody]

2. Only the US is allowed to interfere. eom

[Judi Lynn]

3. True. No one can stop 'em.

Anyone who doesn't approve is going onto the enemy list.

Commies! Pinkos! "Marxists!" Humanists! Atheists! Lib'rals! Socialists!

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[MisterP]

4. meanwhile, in the real world, 18+ LIBRE candidates were butchered like mice for the '13 elections

http://www.cepr.net/blogs/the-americas-blog/honduras-elections-violent-attacks-against-opposition-candidates-provoke-increasing-concern
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/honduras-archives-46/4607-anatomy-of-election-fraud-the-2013-honduran-election-in-five-simple-steps
http://www.rightsaction.org/action-content/4-libre-party-members-killed-7-days-election-fraud-challenges-grow-honduras
http://projects.newyorker.com/portfolio/honduras/

[Peace Patriot]

5. LOL! The U.S. gives multi-millions to Honduras to support the fascist government...

...and 'Honduras' (the fascists in power) whines about a bit of logistics that Venezuela gives to a man who is ACTUALLY the REAL, ELECTED President of Honduras, Mel Zelaya.

Honduras has not had a legitimate government since the U.S.-supported, fascist coup d'etat against Zelaya in 2009. They not only have no right to whine, they have no right to speak for all Hondurans.

Your photo says it all, but I thought I'd spell it out for those new to Honduras issues.

Multi-millions--and, with military and covert aid, that might be billions--of our tax dollars are being larded on Honduras' 0.01% (literally ten families that own everything), in order to maintain a slave labor haven for U.S. transglobal corporations, to destroy social justice before it reaches the U.S.*, to get everything "privatized" (for instance, telecommunications, which John McCain, for instance, has an interest in), to keep the corrupt, murderous, failed "U.S. war on drugs" in clover, and to provide the Pentagon with more playgrounds in Latin America.

U.S. aid to Honduras SUCKS.

And the history of U.S. 'aid' to Honduras is so sucking bad as to boggle the mind, and includes the use of Honduras in the 1980s, during the Reagan junta, as a toilet for U.S.-funded, U.S.-armed goons to cross the border to Nicaragua to murder teachers, mayors and other community leaders who supported the Sandinista government.

Wrong, wrong and MORE WRONG has been inflicted by the U.S. and its fascist beneficiaries on the vast poor majority of Hondurans, as well as on the vast poor majority of Central Americans.

Zelaya has a legitimate right to speak of these things in Washington DC, and it's no surprise at all that the fascists want to stop him from doing so.

He and his wife are determined to put Honduras back on a democratic path PEACEFULLY. That is nothing short of miraculous, given what the U.S. did to them and to the people of Honduras.

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*(One of the Honduran generals involved in the coup d'etat against Zelaya stated that the purpose of the coup was "to prevent communism from Venezuela reaching the United States"--quoted in a report on the coup by the Zelaya government-in-exile back in 2009. He couldn't have spoken more truthfully, except for his venomous use of the word "communism," which he probably picked up at the Pentagon's torture school. Venezuela is not even close to being "communist." It has a mixed socialist/capitalist economy, much like the New Deal here, and one of the strongest democracies in Latin America. But that the Honduran fascists see themselves as preventing SOMETHING from Venezuela "reaching the United States" is a good statement of the case: That "something" is social justice.)