The CIA's Ghosts of Tegucigalpa

[L. Coyote]

George Bush was in Tegucigalpa handing over $100 million dollars, illegally
aiding the Contra terrorist army when the space shuttle Challenger exploded.
You have to ask, why didn't they cancel the launch that cold morning!
Was cover for his crimes more important? That's my Teguci ghost story!!!

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The CIA's Ghosts of Tegucigalpa
By Jerry Meldon - July 14, 2009 - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/071409a.html


Billy Joya, security adviser to Honduras’s post-coup-d’etat President Roberto Micheletti, offered the following explanation for the armed forces’ June 28 insurrection ousting democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya: Joya said Zelaya had been following the same “Marxist-Leninist strategy” for tightening his grip on power that Chilean President Salvador Allende had in 1973 when Gen. Augusto Pinochet toppled Allende.

At least, Joya is at right about this much: The assault on Honduras’s fragile democracy was reminiscent of Pinochet’s 1973 putsch. But Joya’s justification says more about where he and Micheletti are coming from than it does about Zelaya, whose real offense was to run afoul of the Honduran oligarchs.

The Organization of American States and United Nations have condemned the coup and demanded Zelaya’s reinstatement. But the Obama administration has been characteristically cautious, expressing displeasure and suspending military ties, but stopping short of economic sanctions ..........

[timeforpeace]

1. Cautious now, but he went ballistic when this happened, much different than his response to the Iran

election scandal. He's had time to get up to speed on Zelaya, thus the quiet approach now. Zelaya's toast.

[L. Coyote]

2. Zelaya says Hondurans have right to 'insurrection'

Zelaya says Hondurans have right to 'insurrection'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=389&topic_id=6065882&mesg_id=6065882


GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya says the Honduran people "have the right to insurrection" against the interim government that forced him out of the country.

Zelaya says that Honduran citizens also have the right to demonstrate and to stage strikes against the government of de facto President Roberto Micheletti, who has threatened to jail Zelaya if he tries to return.

Zelaya said at a joint news conference with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom on Tuesday that "nobody owes allegiance to a usurper government."

Zelaya said "insurrection is a legitimate process."