Fidel's reflection on Honduras - a Google translation
Posted by: "Walter Lippmann" walterlx@earthlink.net walterlx
Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:09 pm (PDT)
(This is a Google translation of Fidel's
reflection. I've fixed a few of the most
glaring errors. The authoritative version
in English will be out tonight or else in
the morning. This is to give readers a
quick general idea.)
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What should be demanded of the United States
16 July 2009
The meeting in Costa Rica did not lead or could it lead to peace. The people of Honduras are not at war, only putschists weapons used against them. They should demand the cessation of its war against the people. Such a meeting between Zelaya and putschists only serve to demoralize the Constitutional President and wear down the energy of the Honduran people.
World public opinion knows what happened in that country through the images broadcast by international television, primarily Telesur, which, without losing a second, transmitted faithfully each of the events in Honduras, the speeches and the unanimous agreement of the agencies international counter-coup.
The world saw the beating that was dumped on men and women, thousands of canisters of tear gas fired into the crowd, rude gestures with the arms of war and gunfire to intimidate, injure or kill people.
It is absolutely false the idea that the U.S. ambassador to Tegucigalpa, Hugo Llorens, ignored or discouraged a coup. I know that he, like the American military advisers, didn't for a minute stop training Honduran troops.
Today it is known that the idea of promoting peace efforts from Costa Rica came in from the offices of the State Department, to help consolidate the military coup.
The coup was conceived and organized by unscrupulous characters on the extreme right, officials were confident that George W. Bush and had been promoted by him.
All, without exception, have a thick file of activities against Cuba. Hugo Llorens, ambassador to Honduras since 2008, is Cuban American. Among the group of ambassadors of United States aggression in Central America, consisting of Robert Blau, ambassador to El Salvador, Stephen McFarland, in Guatemala, and Robert Callahan, in Nicaragua, all appointed by Bush in July and August 2008.
The four are in line with Otto Reich and John Negroponte, who along with Oliver North was responsible for the dirty war against Nicaragua and death squads in Central America, which cost the people of the region tens of thousands of lives.
Negroponte was Bush's representative at the UN, the U.S. intelligence czar, and finally Secretary of State. Both he and Otto Reich, in various ways, were behind the coup in Honduras.
The Soto Cano base in the country, home of the "Joint Task Force Bravo" belonging to the Armed Forces of the United States, is the fulcrum of the main coup in Honduras.
United States has a dark plan to build five more military bases around Venezuela, claiming to replace the Manta in Ecuador.
The Adventure of disparate coup in Honduras has created a really complicated situation in Central America that is not resolved by cheating, deception and lies.
Every day new details are known of the involvement of the United States in this action, which will have serious repercussions throughout Latin America.
The idea of a peace initiative from Costa Rica was transmitted to the President of that country from the State Department when Obama was in Moscow and stated, in a Russian university, that the only was President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya.
The coup plotters were in distress. The initiative sent to Costa Rica wanted to save them. Clearly, each day of delay has a cost to the Constitutional President and tends to dilute the special international support. Yankee maneuver does not increase the chances of peace, quite the contrary, decreases, and the threat of violence grows as the peoples of our America are not resigned to fate that I never have programmed.
With Costa Rica meeting questioned the authority of the UN, the OAS and other institutions that pledged their support to the people of Honduras.
When Micheletti, the de facto president, declared yesterday that he is prepared to resign if Zelaya resigned, it was known that the State Department and the military coup had agreed to replace it and send it back to Congress as part of the maneuver.
The only right at this moment is to demands the U.S. government cease its intervention and stop providing military support to the coup and Honduras to withdraw from its Task Force.
What they were trying to impose on the people of Honduras in the name of peace, is the negation of all the principles by which all nations of this hemisphere fought.
"Respect the rights of others is peace," said Juarez.
Fidel Castro Ruz
July 16, 2009
1 and 12 p.m.
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WALTER LIPPMANN
Los Angeles, California
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/"Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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