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for their dirty war against Nicaragua. The Reaganites wrote the Honduran constitution to keep it that way. And nothing much has changed since. It is ruled over by a rich rightwing oligarchy on behalf of U.S. multinational corporations and war profiteers.
That is the situation.
So it is NOT a matter of wanting the U.S. to interfere in Honduras. It is a matter of wanting the U.S. to STOP interfering. Criminy, the U.S. dictates the wages in Honduras, on behalf of U.S. multinational sweatshop owners! It is dictating the privatization of telecommunications, on behalf of John McCain! It is dictating teachers' salaries and the price of bus tickets for poor workers. It dictates who Honduras can trade with and what trade groups it may join (NOT the Venezuela-organized ALBA trade group). President Zelaya violated all of these orders from Washington. THAT is why he was ousted--with the help of the Pentagon, the Bushwhack ambassador to Honduras and, ultimately, the Clinton State Department.
STOP doing that. That is the request. STOP supporting the rightwing oligarchy and their death squads. STOP interfering with a democratic reform process. STOP using Hondurans as slave labor. STOP ousting elected, popular leaders. STOP subverting and bribing the military. STOP controlling the country for the profit of the few. STOP using Honduras, once again, for aggression against Nicaragua. GET OUT!
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Your comment about "Hugo" reveals your total incomprehension of the history of brutal U.S. interference in Latin America, which continues to this day. It is in the interest of small, poor Central American and Caribbean countries to band together in a trade group like the Venezuela-organized ALBA, because what happens if they don't, is they get U.S. "free trade for the rich" imposed on them, with the Pentagon prowling around the Caribbean and installing war assets anywhere they can get the local oligarchy to sell out their country, to make clear who's the boss. These countries have been shat upon, raped, dragged through mountains of bloody corpses, degraded, insulted and massively robbed, time and time and time again, by the United States of America, on behalf of its multinational corporations. And the story in South America is exactly the same. So when a country with some heft--Venezuela, with its oil wealth--manages to elect a government that believes in Latin American sovereignty, and understands that Latin American countries will NEVER achieve sovereignty until they cooperate with each other, and when other Latin American governments AGREE, and formulate a COMMON policy throughout the region, of social justice, cooperation, economic/political integration and "raising all boats"--a policy that "Hugo" hammered out in monthly meetings with Lula da Silva of Brazil, and other like-minded leaders, and with the formalizing of UNASUR (EU-type union and common market), and through close friendships and alliances with many leaders and through diplomacy--YOU call it "interference."
"Hugo" did not "interfere" in "Honduran affairs." The trade unionists, human rights groups, social movements and other elements of Honduran society, representing the vast impoverished majority, THEMSELVES decided on a program of reform, and President Zelaya, seeing the advantages of reform and having sympathy with the poor majority, JOINED them in trying to change Honduras for the better. ALBA offered something to Honduras--access to cheap oil, so that Zelaya could lower the price of bus tickets for poor workers. And that is exactly how he put it, when he joined ALBA. He was "getting no help from the U.S." at alleviating poverty in Honduras, whereas joining with his neighbors gave Honduras significant advantages, not the least of which is collective clout in dealing with the U.S. bully that had, time and again, raped Honduras.
You are really missing the boat, Zorro, in continuing to believe that "Hugo" is somehow subverting Latin America. "Hugo" is just one leader. What is happening in Latin America is much bigger than "Hugo." Venezuela happens to be the first country where this leftist democracy revolution took place. The election of similar-minded leaders--leaders who are, above all, interested in asserting their country's sovereignty in regard to both U.S. and EU (but mostly U.S.) interference, by pulling together--soon followed. In Brazil. In Argentina. In Bolivia. In Ecuador. In Uruguay. In Paraguay (of all places!). In Chile. In Nicaragua. In Guatemala. In El Salvador. In Honduras. This is a huge, historic, unstoppable movement.
I think you are projecting how the U.S. corpo-fascist establishment behaves in the world onto "Hugo"--onto this phantom bogeyman that that very establishment has created. If "Hugo" provides cheap oil to Honduras, "Hugo" is "interfering." Yes, that is exactly what it means when the U.S. gives aid or makes trade deals. U.S. aid and U.S. trade deals are mechanisms of interference and control. They are mechanisms of subversion and robbery. They are mechanisms of oppression. WHO is "Hugo" oppressing by providing Honduras with cheap oil? The poor workers who get cheaper bus tickets? I'll tell who "Hugo" is oppressing, with cheap, and in some cases free, oil: He is "oppressing" Exxon-Mobil!
I can tell you, without any doubt in my mind, that, if you were to ask Lula da Silva or Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, or Cristina Fernandez in Argentina, or Evo Morales in Bolivia, or Rafael Correa in Ecuador, or Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, or Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, or any of these new leaders, "Is 'Hugo' interfering?," they would laugh in your face. Far from interfering, the people of Venezuela and THEIR government have led the way in establishing the sovereignty of these countries. These countries now have strength as democracies, and more control over their own affairs, and more clout in the world, BECAUSE Venezuela led the way. "Hugo" is corpo-fascist myth. The real person is NOT like OUR "dear leaders"--the Nixons and the Reagans and the Bushes and, yes, the Clintons--who have spent billions of our tax dollars actively subverting democracy in Latin America and supporting bloody tyrants, murder and chaos. THEY are the interferers! Hugo Chavez is just one president among many who are sick to death of this bloody interference and are fighting back. He is just one leader, among many, in a region where the vast majority of people are sick to death of this bloody interference and aren't going to take it any more. THEY actually believe in democracy. Do we? Does our government?
The memos I would like to see are the memos out of Langley to our corpo-fascist 'news' monopolies, laying out the "talking points" for turning "Hugo" into a "dictator" and a "threat to the region."
You are living in that "Alice in Wonderland" world, Zorro. And the entire U.S.A.--our beloved country and its people and their democratic ideals-- is being sucked right down into that "rabbit hole" by the LACK OF REALITY in our political establishment and the machinations of those who install them in power. In their upside down, inside out, backwards world, the Red Queen rules by "Off with their heads!" They are toxic with their love of power. They are blood-drenched, at this point, with stains that will never go away. They have drained us of our wealth and our dignity as a people. They have sent a third of the U.S. military into suicidal depression. And they are absurd in their posturings--and most especially in their posturings about "freedom and democracy." What a bloody crock!
It is the U.S. that is out there, subverting and interfering and assassinating and running psyops and playing dirty tricks and proliferating weapons, and creating mayhem with its "war on drugs" and its "war on terror," and robbing people blind! NOT "Hugo"!
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