Obama and the Cunning Micheletti

Obama and the Cunning Micheletti
Monday, 3 August 2009, 3:08 pm
Opinion: Carlos Fazio
La Jornada, July 27, 2009, p.19.

The oligarchical-military coup in Honduras represents an Obama-Clinton Administration strategy which is designed to push back the advances of democratically elected governments so that its imperial power can be maintained and consolidated in some “hot zones” of the planet. Such a strategy operates from a several prong political base, combining direct military intervention (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Irak) with clandestine and destabilizing operations (Venezuela, Iran, Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador) and a two way diplomacy, that seeks to utilize the instruments and initiatives inherited by Barack Obama from the Bush Administration

The classist attack on the weakest Latin American link was undertaken to turn back the democratic government of Manuel Zelaya so that a new de facto client regime could be imposed in the empire´s back yard. The coup hopes to reinforce the conservative militarized pole of the Plan Puebla Panama/Merida Initiative, led by Mexico and Colombia. The progressive advances in Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador complicated Washington´s geopolitical plans, that sought to bring an interventionist platform in South America into line focusing upon hydrocarbons in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador and the immense Amazon and the Guarani water resources. In that sense, it was also a blow against ALBA, the Bolivian Alternative for the Americas (la Alternativa Boliviana para las Americas).

To carry out the conspiracy, the State Department and Pentagon used the Honduran military high command that has been structurally penetrated by US security and intelligence organisms. The coup´s general, Romero Vázquez, its cunning adviser Roberto Micheletti and the founder of the 1980´s squadrons of death Billy Joya Améndola, were “exemplary students” in the US School of the Americas (la Escuela de las Américas). The military coup participants acted like an occupying army in their own country. But Honduras is also occupied by the United States which controls the Soto Cano (or Palmerola) military base where the force of the Tarea Conjunta Bravo can be found, consisting of half a thousand military personnel with advanced espionage and interventionist equipment including air combat equipment such as the HU-60, the Black Hawk and the CH-47 Chinook.

That base is part of a network of Advanced Operating Posts (FOL) of the Pentagon, integrated by Comalapa in El Salvador, Guantánamo in Cuba, Arruba, Curazo and Manta, in the Ecuadorian Pacific. Similar to Ecuador´s president´s decision about the Manta base, Zelaya had told the White House of his intention to convert Soto Cano into an international commercial airport which would be financed by Alba and Petro-Caribe. In substitution for Manta, the Pentagon succeeded in convincing Álvaro Uribe to put (Colombian) military bases at its disposal in Palanquera (Cundinamarca) Apiay (Meta) and Malambo (Atlántico) which will convert Colombia into the Israel of Latin America.

The hawks in the Department of State and the Pentagon also fell back upon their old connections with the primitive Honduran oligarchy which controls Congress and the Supreme Court and they (also) counted upon the legitimization of Cardenal Oscar Rodríguez Madariaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa. What we witnessed, then, was a civic-military coup of US design, with the consensus of the fascist powers.

More:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0908/S00009.htm

articles about how the Obama administration is supporting Zelaya without understanding what it is doing. I personally think people are assuming U.S. administration involvement where there is none.

You don't have to assume that Obama, or even Clinton, know much about it to think that some US Government employees are mixed up in it. The Federal Government is far from a unified command.

But DU leftists post actual information--not cave man grunts, racist filth and garbled "talking points" thought up by 'think tankers' with salaries.

For instance, this article provides me with an important piece of information that I didn't have before--the Bushwhacks' last-minute diplomatic appointments in Central America (underlined):

"The backward strategy of the Clinton clan and the institutional apparatus at the service of the energy military industrial complex, that ends up with a policy of events that would be endorsed by Obama, owes much to the key role played by the actual ambassador in Tegucigalpa, the Cuban-US citizen Hugo Llorens. Connected to the ex intelligence czar John Dimitri Negroponte and the ultra conservative Otto Reich, protector of the Cuban-US mafia in Miami, Llorens coordinated the expulsion of Manuel Zeylaya. He is part of a network of diplomats named in the last days of the Bush Administration, all of whom are experts in undercover operations and psychological warfare against Cuba and Venezuela: Robert Blau in the El Salvador Embassy: Stephen McFarland in Guatemala and Robert Callahan in Managua, Nicaragua."

In fact, this information is a key link between Bushwhack plans in Central America and the Clinton State Department, which I already knew had left some of the worst Bushwhack diplomatic appointees in place in South America, such as Brownfield in Colombia. The pattern repeated in Central America.

The Bushwhacks had (have) plans for fascist secessionist coups in three South American countries, all of them oil targets (Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia), one of which matured in September 2008, three months before the Bushwhacks were (supposedly?) out of the power--Bolivia, where fascist rioters and murderers were being funded and organized right out of the US embassy. Evo Morales had the smarts to throw the US ambassador (and the DEA) out of the country, and the leftist leadership which now blankets the South American continent took swift action*, through their newly formed South American "common market"--UNASUR--to back Morales up and stop the coup. The rich white separatists in Bolivia's gas/oil rich eastern provinces had been enticed by the Bushwhacks to try to secede from the Morales government and had their own reasons for doing so (greed, racism). But either the Bushwhacks underestimated Morales and the leadership of South America, or else were merely using these white separatists to test responses and systems.

For instance, they likely had some things set up at the OAS to recognize the racist coupsters as some kind of legitimate government of eastern Bolivia, but the South American leaders outsmarted them by merely requesting a resolution of the OAS and taking the main matter to UNASUR, which the US is not a member of. UNASUR refused the fascist coupsters's demand to be invited to that meeting; said the coupsters had no standing as a government, and Bolivia's two main gas customers--Brazil and Argentina--made it clear that they would neither recognize nor trade with any coup government in Bolivia. If the Bushwacks had had their way, they may have brought in someone like Arias to give the Bolivian fascists some kind of legitimacy, meanwhile prompting the coupsters to kill more Indians and sack more government buildings, to create a crisis that their "diplomacy" would broker. What the Bushwhacks learned from this event--if it was a mostly a testing of systems, which I more and more believe that it was--is to be careful about the venue where such plots end up for resolution. Thus, when their Honduran coup unfolded, they avoided any venue in which the leftist majority could deny legitimacy to the Honduran coup or make it an issue--including the OAS (where the leftist leadership is in the majority), and every other Latin American group--the Rio Group (dispute resolution), the trade groups (ALBA, UNASUR, MERCOSUR), as well as the UN. They arranged for Zelaya to be flown at gunpoint to Costa Rica, and had likely already designated Arias to conduct an entirely informal and bilateral (US-run) negotiation which treated the elected president, Zelaya, and the coup leaders as equals.

"I personally think people are assuming U.S. administration involvement where there is none."

You are entitled to your personal view, of course, but I think you need to review the current US taxpayer funding of the Honduran military and of every rightwing group in Honduras (through John McCain's US taxpayer-funded "International Republican Institute," the USAID-NED and other budgets), and the history of Honduras as a client state of the US, before you presume innocence on the part of the US. To put it summarily, we are "up to our ears" in Honduras. It is virtually impossible for a fascist coup involving the Honduran military to occur without the blessing of powerful, government/corportate and Pentagon-connected interests in the US--if not Obama, then Clinton, and if not Clinton (whom I suspect), then the Bushwhack moles who remain in the State Department and the Pentagon, and whom she has permitted to remain in key diplomatic positions in South and Central America, working with McCain, Negroponte, Otto Reich and others.

Honduras was the launching pad for US aggression in Central America in the 1980s--the death squad armies that Negroponte sent into Nicaragua and other countries, and the associated White House-run drug trafficking--and the country's oligarchy and military have not much changed their stripes since then. Nor has John Negroponte, who is advising Clinton!

It is naive and head-in-the-sand to ignore these facts and this context. This article tries to place the event in context, and get it out of La-La-Land, where such events don't have a context, and where the US is just a bewildered giant wanting "freedom and democracy" for everybody. We own Honduras. That is the problem.

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*(Donald Rumsfeld urged "swift action" by the US in support of "friends and allies" in South America, in his 12/1/07 op-ed in the Washington Post (a year after his resignation from the Pentagon)--an article entitled "The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants Like Chavez." One has to wonder what "swift action" he was thinking of, and which "friends and allies." Also, Rumsfeld doesn't do anything that isn't aimed an an oil war.)