ZELAYA ASSASSINATION Already Planned with Permission Granted by Washington (EN and SP)

[magbana]

Zelaya's assassination already planned
with permission granted by Washington

http://www.rlp.com.ni/noticias/general/57242

Credible sources, who remain anonymous for reasons of security, have
stated that in the next few days a plan to repress the popular
movement will be put into action by the coup government.

Part of the strategy of the ultra-right consists in the training of
120 assassins, who begin their training every day at 3:00 am in the
house of retired colonel Amilcar Zelaya, which is located in the
Amarateca neighborhood, 25 minutes from Tegucigalpa.

The house of this ex-military officer was known in the 1980's as a
torture center.

The assassins have negotiated a salary of $744 a month. This money
comes from honduran big business, and is part of an overall sum of
$319,148.00 being spent to dismantle the popular movement.

One of the principal objectives of the fascist leadership under
Micheletti is the assassination of the leadership of the high school
teachers union, the National Autonomous University of Honduras
(UNAH), and other organizations which support the return of president
Manuel Zelaya.

As part of this conspiracy they have planned an assassination attempt
against Roberto Micheletti to justify their coup and to legitimize
more arbitrary (forceful) measures against the demonstrators.

They have also infiltrated the pro-Zelaya demonstrations posing as
journalists, wearing khaki sweaters (or bullet-proof vests?).

This source indicated that this conspiracy against the people was put
in motion after the Micheletti delegation in Costa Rica broke off talks.

Assassinate Zelaya?

Enrique Santiago, an observer with the IEPALA NGO (Institute of Latin
American and African Studies), confirms that the pro-coup military
leader, General Romeo Vasquez, has organized a bloody repression
against the population set to welcome back the constitutional
president of the country, and has also ordered Zelaya's assassination.

Santiago says that according to Vasquez, Zelaya's assassination will
be the only option if the legitimate president enters Honduras.

(At this point the article quotes Santiago giving a synopsis of the
repression against the popular movement to date. He also points out
that Uribe is the only leader who has not respected the international
blockade against the honduran dictatorship).

Preparan magnicidio de Zelaya y masacre del pueblo con la venia de
Washington

Tegucigalpa. Varias fuentes. | julio 24, 2009

Fuentes de entero crédito que por razones de seguridad no son
reveladas, aseguran que en los próximos días se pondrá en marcha un
plan del gobierno golpista para incrementar la represión al
movimiento popular.

Parte de la estrategia de la ultraderecha de este país consiste en el
entrenamiento de 120 sicarios, a quienes se les adiestra todos los
días a partir de las tres de la madrugada en la casa del coronel
retirado Amílcar Zelaya, situada en la aldea de Amarateca a unos 25
minutos de Tegucigalpa.

La residencia de este ex militar fue conocida en la década de los
ochentas por ser un centro de tortura.

Los sicarios negociaron un convenio salarial de 14 mil lempiras
mensuales (744 dólares). Este salario es parte del financiamiento de
seis millones de lempiras (319,148 dólares) que proporcionó la
empresa privada de Honduras para desarticular la fuerza del
movimiento popular.

Entre los principales objetivos de la derecha fascista liderada por
Micheletti es el asesinato de la dirigencia sindical de secundaria,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (UNAH) y otras
organizaciones que apoyan el reintegro del presidente de la República
Manuel Zelaya.

Como parte de esta conspiración se tiene planeado un auto atentado
contra Roberto Micheletti con el propósito de justificar el golpe de
Estado y ejecutar medidas más arbitrarias hacia los manifestantes.

Una fuerte introducción de infiltrados dentro de las manifestaciones
cuyo distintivo es el de un periodista o camarógrafo que viste
chalecos color kaki es parte de este contexto conspirador.

La fuente afirmó que la reciente ruptura del dialogo de parte de la
comisión que representa a Micheletti en Costa Rica representa el
inicio del complot contra el pueblo.

¿Asesinar a Zelaya?

Enrique Santiago, observador del organismo no gubernamental IEPALA,
(Instituto de Estudios para América Latina y África), asegura que el
jefe militar golpista, General Romeo Vásquez, prepara una sangrienta
represión en contra de la población que va a recibir al presidente
constitucional del país y ordenó además asesinar al mandatario.

Santiago dice que para el general Vásquez, asesinar al mandatario
será la única opción si el presidente legítimo entra a Honduras.

Según declaraciones en exclusiva para TerceraInformación, Santiago -
quien se encuentra en Honduras en una misión internacional elaborando
un informe sobre derechos humanos-, el general Vásquez Velásquez ha
declarado que la única opción será asesinar a Zelaya cuando entre a
Honduras.

Recientemente, la esposa de Zelaya, Xiomara Castro, acusó a Vásquez
Velásquez fue uno de los principales promotores del golpe de estado y
ordenó el secuestro y el allanamiento de la casa de Zelaya.

Santiago ha declarado que "teniendo en cuenta la actitud responsable
de los manifestantes favorables a Zelaya marchando de una manera
pacífica y no violenta junto con el anuncio que ha hecho el
Comandante del Ejército hondureño Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, quien ha
difundido que en caso de que el presidente Zelaya entre en el país,
la única opción será asesinarlo, no sería extraño que las
manifestaciones que se celebren estos días sean brutalmente
reprimidas por las fuerzas armadas hondureñas".

Para Santiago la situación en Honduras es catastrófica.

"Hemos podido verificar con la ayuda de los organismos de derechos
humanos hondureños que se están violando los derechos recogidos en la
Constitución hondureña, tales como el derecho a la expresión, a la
libre circulación, a la libertad, además de verificarse que se están
perpetrando graves atentados a la vida con resultados de muerte, de
detenciones de opositores al régimen de facto, detenciones de
colectivos de ciudadanos extranjeros, sobre todo de nicaragüenses,
ante la pasividad del gobierno golpista, incluso complicidad en
muchos casos de instituciones del estado como la Fiscalía Nacional o
la Corte Suprema de Justicia".

Desde los primeros días del golpe de estado se ha denunciado el
maltrato a los presos políticos que empiezan a colapsar las cárceles
de Honduras. La misión de los derechos humanos que integra Enrique
Santiago así lo ha confirmado después de visitar varios centros
penitenciarios, "en los centros penitenciarios visitados las
condiciones de las personas están fuera de la legislación
internacional en materia de derechos humanos", declaró Santiago.

Además Enrique Santiago también ha denunciado varios hechos que están
cometiendo los golpistas:

-Las amenazas que están recibiendo los alcaldes; cargos públicos y
ciudadanos pertenecientes al partido de izquierdas Unificación
Democrática.

[magbana]

1. If this scenario is true, need to figure in Romeo Vasquez' presence in

the US and not in Honduras.

[Judi Lynn]

2. They're always able to find killers for hire in the poor Central American countries.

You may remember Luis Posada Carriles hired several people who carried bombs into Havana and put them in hotels, etc.
Leon Cruz was one, but there were others, including a woman.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Of course everyone in harm's way should be careful and vigilant, but I wonder about

spreading fear with rumors like this. The junta wants everyone to be afraid, to hide, to be silent, and above all not to band together for collective protection. Again, this is not to say that the report is wrong; we just need to be wary of fearmongering. It would be colossally stupid of Vasquez and the junta to assassinate Zelaya. Unlike Venezuela in 2002, until Chile in the 1970s and other such situations, the whole world is watching, and Honduras is surrounded by friendly leftist governments in Central America and throughout South America--with Zelaya having near universal support in the effort to fill out his term as president. Vasquez and cabal including McCain & co. have lost the media war. The OAS is not buying their crap. The EU is not buying it. The US--Obama, Clinton--at least have to say they're not buying it. Further, Zelaya has only a few months left in power as president. He is termed out. He can't run. And the left has to find a presidential candidate and run a campaign for November elections in the most difficult conditions imaginable. If they're "smart," the coupsters will let Zelaya resume his presidency, agree to some mild reforms, and then continue ruling Honduras for the "ten families" as before. It will be years before the left can win elections, with junta operatives in every branch of government, including most likely the electoral council. It's true that the coup has mobilized people, but if the coupsters are "smart," they'll wait it out and lose very little of their untoward power and wealth.

If they go the "death squad" route--even though this has been a successful route for the US-supported fascists in Colombia--it has failed everywhere else, and it requires truly massive infusions of US tax dollars--multi-billions--to maintain. Billions we don't have any more. (Colombia's getting it all--five U.S. military bases planned in Colombia! Money we already don't have--our great-great grandchildren will be paying for those bases.)

[Judi Lynn]

4. Honduras: Micheletti appoints death squad veteran

Honduras: Micheletti appoints death squad veteran

Submitted by WW4 Report on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 19:18. Fears that the de facto regime in Honduras is availing itself of expertise in repression from the bloody years of the 1980s were vindicated by reports that coup-installed President Roberto Micheletti has appointed as special advisor one Billy Joya Améndola—named as one of the principal leaders of the 316 Battalion death squad.

Joya Améndola, who apparently operated in the '80s as "Dr. Arranzola," is also named as a founder of the semi-official "Lince" and "Cobra" death squads. Human rights groups in Honduras charge he is responsible for at least 11 extrajudicial executions, as well as the April 1982 kidnapping and torture of six students. He apparently received training in Argentina from Gen. Guillermo Suárez Mason AKA "Pajarito"—who would later be convicted and imprisoned on charges related to 30 murders and 200 kidnappings. (See obituary, The Independent, June 23, 2005.) Joya Améndola also obtained a scholarship from the Honduran army to study in Augusto Pinochet's Chile.

The Spanish government sought the extradition of Joya Améndola various times after 1985, but the Honduran judicial system has never responded. Ironically, when a judge in Tegucigalpa issued an order for his arrest on kidnapping and torture charges in 1995, he took refuge in Spain, and remained there as an asylum applicant until he was expelled in 1998. (Gennaro Carotenuto, Italy, July 5, translated by Quotha.net)

Hugo Maldonado, director of the local Human Rights Committee in San Pedro Sula, says that the de facto regime is purging Zelaya sympathists from the security forces, and the most reactionary elements of the army are now in control. He named Joya Amendola and retired Gen. Daniel López Carballo as the men overseeing this reshaping of the security forces. (Público, Spain, July 22)

A graduate of the US Army's School of the Americas (SOA), Gen. López Carballo, told CNN that the coup was warranted because Venezuelan President Chávez would be running Honduras by proxy if the military had not acted. SOA graduates who led the coup include armed forces chief Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez and air force chief Gen. Luis Prince Suazo.

SOA-trained Honduran army counsel Col. Herberth Inestroza justified the military coup in an interview with the Miami Herald, saying, "It would be difficult for us, with our training, to have a relationship with a leftist government. That's impossible." Inestroza also confirmed that the decision for the coup was made by the military. (Examiner.com, July 18)

In that same interview, Inestroza also admitted the removal of Zelaya was a "criminal" act. Yet in an interview with the New York Times days earlier, he denied that removal was a coup, or that the "rule of law" had been broken.

http://ww4report.com/node/7622