Radio Globo: U.S. yanking visas of golpistas, including Micheletti

[rabs]

No link but news was read on the air shortly after 10 p.m. tonight.

Radio is talking about it as I write this (10:23 p.m.)

http://www.radioglobohonduras.com/

Radio is either way ahead of all media or it is going out on a dangerous limb.

It just reported that U.S. State Department has cancelled the visa of Micheletti and frozen his funds in U.S. banks.

Citing "reliable sources," Globo says a list of 170 people will have their U.S. visas cancelled, not suspended.

Among them are the president of the supreme court, all 15 supreme court judges, members of congress, military officiers (including Romeo Velasquez) and businessmen.

[rabs]

1. Globo: Resistance is celebrating

Caravan of vehicle on Morazan Blvd. in heart of Tegu. with anti-golpistas celebrating cancellation of goriletti's visa. Looks like the scoop by Radio Globo is legit.

10:34 p.m. Tegu. time.

(fixed typo)

[rabs]

2. Micheletti confirms USA has revoked his visa

Radio Globo went off the air at 10:59, minutes ago. Station now back on air at 11:05.

From golpista newspaper La Prensa of San Pedro Sula.

Goriletti admitted it to golpista radio station. Said other officials of his government have had their visas revoked too, but he did not have the official list.


EUA revoca visa a Micheletti

Señaló que más funcionarios del actual Gobierno también fueron revocadas sus visas, aunque aclaró que no tiene la información oficial.
11.09.09 - Actualizado: 11.09.09 09:41pm - Redacción web: [e-mail]


San Pedro Sula, Honduras

El Gobierno de los Estados Unidos suspendió la visa corriente al presidente interino de Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, informó el mismo mandatario hondureño en medios radiales.

"Esto no cambia nuestras posiciones, y no van a cambiar por más que se hagan este tipo de cosas que solamente indignan a la población porque la mayor parte del pueblo esta enteresado de lo que pasó en Honduras", dijo.

Micheletti enfatizó que la mayoría del pueblo hondureño apoya las decisiones del Gobierno y agregó que el Acuerdo de San José, propuesta por el presidente Óscar Arias, mediador en el conflicto hondureño, no puede firmarse sino se basa en la Constitucion de Honduras.

Señaló que más funcionarios del actual Gobierno también fueron revocadas sus visas, aunque aclaró que no tiene la información oficial.

http://www.laprensahn.com/Ediciones/2009/09/11/Noticias/EUA-revoca-visa-a-Micheletti

[Peace Patriot]

3. Very glad to see this! Hope it isn't too late to prevent more deaths and injuries in Honduras,

by the fascist government, military and police, and its death squads, and not too late for the OAS to set up a real election (one in which thousands of Honduras' leftist activists are not in prison, for instance).

Here's hoping: :thumbsup: :bounce: :grouphug: :bounce: :thumbsup:

[rabs]

4. English version by "Rotters"

which could not resist taking its mandatory cheap shot at Hugo Chavez (last graph).

Key graphs:

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran de facto ruler Roberto Micheletti said on Saturday (actually it was on Friday) the United States has revoked his visa to pressure him to step down and reinstate exiled President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a June military coup.

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Marcia Villa, a Honduran lawmaker and ally of Micheletti, said several top members of Micheletti's government, Honduran Supreme Court justices and a group of Honduran businessmen had also lost their U.S. visas.

(Radio Globo last night said the number was as high as 170 golpistas, including congress people, all 15 supreme court justices, the attorney general, golpista business people and pro-golpista journalists. Villa is the wife of one of the Facusses, who were key participants in the golpe.)

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/09/12/world/international-us-honduras-usa.html
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Fyi read last night in golpista press that Hugo Llorens is back in Honduras and was to attend some sort of non-golpista civic ceremony today in San Pedro Sula. Speculating that Llorens returned with the bad news for the golpistas.

Also there was a caller to Radio Globo last night who said Billy Joya (Goriletti's "national security adviser") had fled the country with his family. Unconfirmed, but if it turns out to be true, then Micheletti's top rat has abandoned the ship.

[Peace Patriot]

5. It would interesting to know where Billy Joya ran off to. nt

[Judi Lynn]

6. Great news if their former death squad leader has fled.

It probably broke his heart, having to leave so many Hondurans still untortured, unbroken, still intact.

Sure hope this will scare the bejesus out of Goriletti and his over- the-hill gang. It should send a strong signal to the military that it's time to overthrow their ill-advised coup and give the democracy back to the country.

Thank you, best news in ages.

[rabs]

7. More good news ...

El Heraldo (think it is owned by the Facusses) has been one of the biggest cheerleader of the golpistas.

This little gem is included in its story today on the visa cancellation:

El ministro de Información del gobierno interino, René Zepeda, dijo el sábado a la AP que "esperamos que la visa de al menos otros 1,000 funcionarios públicos sea retirada en los próximos días por Estados Unidos... eso ya lo tenemos previsto".

(The information minister of the interim government, René Zepeda, on Saturday told the AP that "we expect that the visas of at least 1,000 other public functionaries will be withdrawn in the next few days by the United States ... we had already foreseen that.")

This other little gem says Micheletti was pissed because the letter he got from the U.S. Consulate on Friday addressed him as the president of the Honduran Congress, not as the "señor president of the republic or whatever." :rofl:

"Me molestó que la nota está dirigida a Roberto Micheletti, presidente del Congreso, ni siquiera dice señor presidente de la república o lo que sea", afirmó.

Re Billy Joya, have no idea of where he could go considering his past bloody past, and present.

http://www.elheraldo.hn/Ediciones/2009/09/12/Noticias/Estados-Unidos-revoca-visa-a-Micheletti

[rabs]

8. Biggest of the Honduran big shots detained at MIA

(Unusual caption on the photo by the AP.) :shrug:


Adolfo Facusse, president of the National Association of Industries, talks on his cell phone in his home in Tegucigalpa, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a military coup after betraying his own kind: a small clique of families that dominates the economy. Now those same families stand as the greatest obstacle to the U.S.-backed drive to return him to power. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)


Globo Radio has reported that Facusse, the richest and most powerful businessman in Honduras, arrived at Miami International Airport early today (or last night).

Before passengers disembarked, an announcement aboard the plane called on Facusse to raise his hand. He was then escorted from the aircraft by two U.S. immigration officials who told him visa had been cancelled.

A journalist aboard the plane told Radio Globo that Facusse had turned "red as a tomato" as he was led off the plane.

As of this afternoon, Globo said he was still in detention at the airport after having been fingerprinted and photographed like a common criminal. His deportation to Honduras was expected tonight or tomorrow, Globo said. :rofl:

[rabs]

11. Globo has now identified Facusse as Andres Facusse, son of Adolfo Facusse

Radio said Andres R. Facusse, 34, was deported from Miami today.

He is listed as general manager of a very large textile plant in Tegu., with 850 employees (Fruit of the Loom and Hanes among his biggest clients).

Apparently Andres R. has a home in Doral, Fl., according to peoplefinder.

Adolfo Facusse is listed as having a home in Miami.

The visa cancellations are starting to bite the golpistas.

[Judi Lynn]

12. How cool is this? Can't believe they cracked down this way.

It would have been sublime getting that on video, to play for the people of Honduras.

What good is it being Honduras' most powerful businessman if he can't even avoid getting hauled off and sent back home like an illegal immigrant?

It's also totally unheard of for AP to allow anything to slip through like that caption. Must have been an oversight.

Those 1,000 people getting their visas withdrawn should be expected to make a lot of noise, especially the ones with second or third homes in the States, and the ones who have business here. Hope they really make trouble about it.

So good to see this news.

[IndianaGreen]

9. Is Hillary getting tough on these assholes or is this just for show?

Has this been verified?

[rabs]

10. Verification:

If you are asking about the visa cancellations, yes, goriletti himself has admitted his diplomatic and tourist visas had been cancelled.

Globo is hot on the trail of the complete list and the number of golpistas affected. But it seems to be from 170 (according to Globo) and could be up to 1,000, according to golpista gov. spokesman !!!