Washington's hypocrisy on Honduras

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Washington's hypocrisy on Honduras

Friday 25 September 2009
John Haylett

Zelaya, just like Zoran Djindjic, Mikheil Saakashvili and Victor Yushchenko, speaks fluent English with a north American accent, which would save CBS and Fox a fistful of dollars in interpreter fees and subtitles. But his message is judged unacceptable.

Djindjic, Saakashvili and Yushchenko parroted pro-NATO speeches that could have been crafted in the local US embassy. Zelaya has championed regional unity alongside such neighbours as Venezuela and Nicaragua, which rules him out of membership of Washington-approved, colour-coded, people-power revolutions.

Although Washington claimed to oppose the June 28 coup and suspended an aid package to the country, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made no secret of her hostility to Zelaya, calling his symbolic brief crossing of the border between Nicaragua and Honduras on July 25 "reckless."

All of Latin America and the Organisation of American States have rejected the coup and demanded the president's reinstatement.

However, Clinton is clearly seeking, through the mediation of a close US ally, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a resolution of the crisis that will return Honduras to constitutional normality but without the threat of radicalism posed by Zelaya.

Although Honduras is formally a democracy, political power still resides within an oligarchy of big landowners and comprador capitalists which is closely linked with the US-trained military elite.

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