MACHETERA-Otto Reich and the Honduran Coup:The provocateur, his protege, and toppling a President

Part 1

http://machetera.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/otto-reich-and-the-honduran-coup-detat-the-provocateur-his-protege-and-the-toppling-of-a-president-part-one/

Otto Reich was interfering in Honduras long before the coup. I'm reminded also of the reports about John McCain's telecom interests in Honduras (and Evo Gollinger's FOIA research regarding the $43 million (US taxpayer dollars) McCain infused into rightwing groups in Honduras, with his "International Republican Institute" via the USAID-NED). Reich is likely an agent for McCain (and also maybe for my pick for mastermind of Oil War II-South America--Donald Rumsfeld*).

In Reich's campaign against Zelaya and the state-owned telecom company Hondutel, we see a miniature version of the larger psyops campaign against Chavez. Somebody's running that campaign--I don't know who. But it is very organized, very intense, and I'm sure very, very expensive, with all sorts of insinuations, never proven--just leaving impressions--that Chavez is 'corrupt' on drugs, on weapons trafficking, on his ties to other leaders (the ludicrous "suitcase full of money" caper out of Miami), on ties to FARC guerrillas, and of course--their most successful impression--that Chavez is a 'dictator.' All of these impressions and insinuations dissolve in the light of day, with a little investigation and thought. Their purpose is not to convince anyone, but to turn off the human brain's defenses against goddamn lies, and let the ooze of disinformation seep in. The victims end up not know why they believe what they believe, and can't defend it if you ask them, and also end up not caring about what happens to the target of the disinformation (or for that matter to the many people who voted for him and consider him a good leader).

Such campaigns can be used to destroy public services (to privatize everything), but also to create conditions for the destruction of good leaders and entire democracies.

*(Rumsfeld urged "swift action" by the US in support of "friends and allies" in South America (WaPo 12/1/07, a year after he 'retired). Certainly he was thinking of the white separatists in Bolivia in the coup attempt there nine months later, funded and organized right out of the Bushwhack embassy; also fascist groups in Venezuela's and Ecuador's northern oil provinces--adjacent to Colombia--who want to secede from the national governments; and the coupsters in Honduras.)

our foreign policy, he should never be allowed to come between us, the American public and the truth about our world, and our neighbors.

Giving this ugly little man the ability to deceive and trick us is absolutely immoral, beyond "immoral" to completely EVIL.

What a dreadful, dirty shame.

I'm looking forward to the other part of this article, as well.

Thanks.

Ta for that.