Two Cuban CIA Operatives Advised Honduras Coup

[Joanne98]

Havana, July 9, (PL).- Cuban counterrevolutionaries Carlos Alberto Montaner and Otto Reich, former State assistant secretary of the government of George W. Bush, collaborated as advisers in the coup d''état on Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

A report in Granma newspaper Thursday, taken from Radio Miami station, states that a secret report sent to an embassy from a European country very allied to the US government convincingly reveals in detail those actions.

According to this report, Montaner and Reich have been in permanent contact with the coupists, through direct or phone intermediate agents. The former used an electronic bridge from Madrid and Miami, while the latter did so from Panama.

Montaner advised Honduran coupists to resist international pressure to prevent Zelaya's return to his country, and hold presidential elections in advance, convened for late this year.

The two men are in Miami, from where they maintain constant communication with the coupists from the mentioned Central American country as "collaborating friends."

Carlos Alberto Montaner is an agent from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA. His aim is to practice state terrorism, before in Puerto Rico and now in Spain, and harass the Cuban Revolution.

Otto Reich, a furious enemy of the Cuban Revolution, also works for the CIA, organizing coups d'état and planning of destabilizations of progressive governments, as well as protecting terrorists like Luis Posada Carriles.

http://www.periodico26.cu/english/news_world/july2009/honduras-cuba-enemies070909.html
Posted by Alex Constantine at 3:40 PM

http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2009/07/two-cia-cuban-assets-advised-honduras.html

I know it's a few days old but it didn't get enough attention.

[anonymous171]

1. God fucking dammit. nt

[PDJane]

2. SOP.

The CIA is a secret government and was set up that way...in part, by Prescott Bush. It's time to disband the whole damn bunch and start over. I agree that intelligence gathering is a necessary thing. However, the involvement of the CIA in covert activities to destabilize whole countries and regions and the collateral damage of innocents is despicable.

[mattvermont]

3. Now there is a BIG surprise

Let's see...who was Bushes SA nemesis?? ding, ding give yourself a point if you said "Chavez"
Now who really ran the government of Honduras? Give yourself another point if you again said Chavez.
In light of this weekends news re the CIA, I guess Obama could continue to claim that he knows nothing.
It doesn't really matter that he and Clinton claim that the coup "will not stand". It will stand as long as
the people really in power want to continue to fuck with Latin America.

[Peace Patriot]

5. "...who really ran the government of Honduras? ...Chavez."??

1. Who really ran the Honduran government (and is still running it) is the Pentagon. Evidence: The moment that the ELECTED president, Manuel Zelaya, actually tried to run the government of Honduras--for instance, by raising the minimum wage, and by proposing that the US air base be converted to commercial purpose, the Honduran military--funded by you and me, and educated by the Pentagon at the School of the Americas--shot up the presidential palace, rousted Zelaya from his bed at gunpoint, flew him out of the country as a prisoner, declared martial law, suspended Constitutional civil rights and shut down the media. Then they started shooting and 'disappearing' people (at least 600 political prisoners with no rights). Chavez didn't do these things. The US-run Honduran military did them, in cahoots with Honduras' corrupt, entrenched rich elite.

2. As for Zelaya's ALLIANCE with Chavez, Lula da Silva is also strongly allied with Chavez. Is Chavez "running" Brazil? Nestor and Cristina Kirchner (former and current presidents of Argentina) are strongly allied with Chavez. Is Chavez "running" Argentina? Tabare Vasquez of Uruguay is strongly allied with Chavez. Is Chavez "running" Uruguay? Fernando Lugo of Paraguay is strongly allied with Chavez. Is Chavez "running" Paraguay? Presidents of countries have a RIGHT and DUTY to make alliances! Zelaya got a very good deal for Honduras in Venezuelan oil. An alliance with Chavez and with the ALBA nations was in Honduras' interest. And, clearly, Chavez cannot have been "running" the government of Honduras, since his ally, the elected president, Zelaya, got kidnapped and exiled!

Perhaps I have misunderstood you. But it seems pretty clear that that is what you are saying--Chavez "ran" the government of Honduras. It is not true. And if that is not what you meant, please clarify.

[Peace Patriot]

6. One additional thought: The lesson for Latin American countries is very clear:

Get the US military out of your country NOW, because, if you don't, Carlos Alberto Montaner and Otto Reich will soon be "advising" your puppet government, while the School of the Americas is teaching your military how to torture and kill the "riffraff."

The $6 BILLION in US taxpayer money that the Bushwhacks (and Clinton before them) larded on Colombia was for one purpose: To have a U.S.-run country in South America. The multi-millions they larded on Honduras was for the exact same purpose, and when Zelaya began questioning "free trade"--because it has further impoverished his people--and began to talk of Honduran sovereignty, re the presence of the US military in Honduras, and, like Rafael Correa in Ecuador and other leaders, planned to send it packing, they struck and violently evicted him from office and from his country. "They"--the real hidden hands behind all of this--are our war profiteers and oil profiteers with their greedy, murderous eyes on Venezuela's northern coastal oil reserves on the Caribbean. Honduras is merely a footstool to them--a launching pad for aggression.

I hope other Latin American countries accelerate their plans to be free of US military bases, because only then will they be safe from interference and coups like this one in Honduras, and because, as a US citizen and taxpayer, I'm sick to death of PAYING FOR these horrifying imperialistic policies of inflicting repression, fear, fascism and war on other people!

[mattvermont]

7. thank you

for clarifying what I said. What I meant was that by destabilizing Honduran rule, it was a message to Chavez, who was a great help to Honduras and many other countries. I appreciate your
scholarly overview of the situation in LA. thank you.

[corpseratemedia]

4. our secret babushka govt. within a govt. within a govt. within a govt. and so on..

incapable of doing anything positive