to rightwing, coup-supporting big businessmen. When a spokesperson for the MC was recently asked whether that funding has been suspended because of the coup, the first answer was "no"--they had received no directive from the State Dept. to do that--and the somewhat later answer was that they have suspended funding that "was not already in the pipeline" (a rather big loophole). In any case, at whatever late-in-the-day point that MC suspended all funding (if they have), the MC has
already shoveled a lot of money into the hands of major coup supporters. This research was done by Al Giordano and Bill Conroy at NarcoNews.
http://www.narconews.com/Issue59/article3764.htmlJohn McCain has funneled $43 million to rightwing political groups in Honduras, through the US taxpayer funded "International Republican Institute," via the USAID. The FOIA requests and research were done by Eva Golinger.
http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/07/role-of-international-republican.html ----------------------
Here is an interesting, alternative account of the coup and US policy, by Golinger. I don't agree with every point, but the thrust of it, I think, is true--that the US has been playing a double-game in Honduras.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/mrzine/golinger160709.html-----------------------
Al Giordano is on the ground in Honduras, talking to many civic groups, unions, protestors and all kinds of people. His reports at NarcoNews have been excellent, and very eye-opening. It is from him I learned that the proposal for a constitutional assembly (to re-write Honduras' Reagan-era constitution) came from grass roots groups and unions all over the country. It was not Zelaya's idea. He was
responding to a general movement for reform coming from the people. (I had frankly wondered about this--was he too far ahead of his people? Not so! The people were leading
him. This is the sort of thing we just don't hear about in our corpo/fascist media. They make it seem like Zelaya is some kind of "caudillo"--as if it were all about him. Not so.)