GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT JOSE MANUEL ZELAYA ROSALES REPORT ON THE COUP D’ETAT

Martin Luther's "99 Theses" all rolled up into one. It lays out the case against the coup d'etat in Honduras--who they are, their autocratic control of Honduras, their iron grip on all of Honduras' businesses and wealth and on government institutions, their crimes and their motives--chapter and verse. It further narrates the efforts of the Zelaya government and the people of Honduras to alleviate the poverty that these jerkwads have inflicted on the majority of Hondurans and to improve Honduran democracy and citizen participation, in order to remedy these ills, mentioning items I didn't know about, such as the Transparency Law (essential to a functioning democracy). And I am only up to page 10 (Article III: Breaking the Constitutional Order).

This document--an official account by the real government of Honduras--is going to take careful review and study, but here is an interesting tidbit. In identifuying the "material executors" of the coup, the report states the following;

Material executors (military):
A) General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, Head of the Joint Chief of Staff;
B) General Miguel Ángel García Padgett, Head of the Army, who has publicly expressed that “with the action performed, the communism from Venezuela toward the United States has been halted.“

Gee, how did the United States get into it? Hm? The Honduran junta is protecting the United States from communism? On the march from Venezuela? (Does this mean Zelaya's raising of the minimum wage is out, in Honduras?) Communism? On the march! I wonder what kind of conversations General Garcia had with John McCain and the Bushwhack moles in the Pentagon and the State Dept. and the CIA, that resulted in such a statement coming out of his mouth.

Here is Zelaya's account of his kidnapping and deportation at gunpoint. It confirms that the coup's plane stopped at the US military base at Soto Cano (Palmerola), where the US military just sat on its hands while their pals in the Honduran military overthrew the elected government. What were the US military commanders at Soto Cano, and back at the Pentagon, doing while the coup plane refueled at Soto Cano? Watching Michael Jackson memorials on TV? Why didn't the US embassy--which had several days' notice of the coup--call the commanders of this US military base and tell them to stop this plane from leaving the country if it landed at their base?

Zelaya's (presumably first hand) account: "On Sunday the 28th of June, 2009, at approximately five in the morning (5:00 AM), the home of the Constitutional President of the Republic was violently attacked by a strong commando force of the National Army and hooded paramilitary forces. Thos who committed the crime machine gunned the entries and the residence and immediately entered into the same, proceeding to threaten the President, pointing high caliber weapons at him, while telling him that he would be handed over and not to resist at all. Similarly they seized with violence the cellular telephone he carried, preventing him from making any communication. They did not read any rights to the Constitutional President, they didn’t give him any information, they didn’t allow him to communicate with his family, they didn’t show him any documents, they didn’t let him get dressed and, thus isolated, he was made the object of threats and violence on the part of military and paramilitary forces. Afterward the trusted criminals proceeded to kidnap him and in his sleeping clothes they transferred him to the Hernán Acosta Mejía air base. The presidential airplane which carried him, with weapons pointed at his person and against his will in the company of armed and hooded military forces, took off at approximately 6:10 AM for the city of San José, Costa Rica, making first a stopover at the airport of Palmerola in the city of Comayagua. After landing at San José, he was lowered onto the runway and abandoned there at about eight in the morning of the same day. The Constitutional President of the Republic was assisted in Juan Santamaría airport, the place where he delivered his first declarations regarding the criminal act of which he was the object."

The report also documents that warrants and arrest orders against Zelaya were drawn up after the fact--giving the lie to all the bullshit that this junta has spread around Washington DC, for the consumption of our bullshit-eating corpo/fascist press, about the "legitimacy" of their actions.

One other point--very important (from my reading thus far): This report from Zelaya's government identifies several the heads of media corporations who were involved in this coup. Clearly, this was a "media coup" like the one in Venezuela in 2002. While a military junta takes over the government, removes the head of state and begins repressing all dissent, the corpo/fascist 'news' monopolies black out the news and promulgate lies and disinformation on behalf of the criminals who are destroying the country's democracy.

Here is the list of corporate media coupsters (from the Report):

II. AUTHORS OF THE COUP D’ETAT. CATEGORIES.-


a. First Category: In this first category are the intellectual and financial authors of the Coup D’état.

A) The ex President Carlos Roberto Flores Facussé, owner of the newspaper La Tribuna and active partner through front men of various businesses; his political collaborators of many years are those who carried out the coup.

B) Jorge Canahuati Larach, owner of the newspapers El Heraldo and La Prensa, influential member of the private Association of 3 owners of Media Companies.

C) José Rafael Ferrari, owner of Emisoras Unidas and Televicentro,

D) Ricardo Maduro, former President of the República, owner of banks, downtowns, commercial stores and media.

used his forged signature on a resignation document in the legislature, to cement the coup.

c) False Resignation of the President .- Crime of Forgery of public documents.

The National Congress, on 28 June 2009, convened an emergency session, not to condemn what had happened to the President elected by a majority of the Honduran people, nor to condemn the blatant violation of all constitutional articles relating to the fundamental guarantees of every citizen (illegal raid on his home, kidnapping, extradition, etc.). but to “constitutionally replace” the President, without any power to do so.
Like a common criminal, the Secretary of the National Congress Jose Alfredo Saavedra, once he was assured that the kidnapping and violent expulsion of the President to Costa Rica had been carried out, read out loud his false letter of resignation in Congress, thereby committing the offense of falsification of public documents, as they bore the President’s falsified signature on a note whose content was also false and which was denied to be true the same day, June 28, 2009, almost immediately, by the President from the city of San Jose in Costa Rica. 
Being evident that the President of the Republic had not resigned, and therefore did not sign the letter, as indeed he himself said from Costa Rica, there is no doubt that those who made use of the document at the session of Congress incurred the crime of falsification of public documents. This conduct must not go unpunished, especially in light of the important position they carry out in the public’s name. Notable for their reprehensible behavior is the Deputy for the Department of Francisco Morazán, MARCIA FACUSSE Villeda (relative of former President Carlos Roberto Flores and thermal energy entrepreneur Fredy Nasser. Daughter in Law of Villeda Manuel Toledo, who is a partner of Rafael Ferrari, owner of Televicentro), who stated on national TV, subsequently broadcast by CNN that President Zelaya and “all his cabinet” had resigned and that he believed that the resignation had come via fax.
 The communication of the Constitutional President of the Republic, San Jose, Costa Rica to the world, came through with CNN journalist Glenda Umaña, by which he denied the alleged resignation, saying he had never resigned, which is obvious, as, in the hours before he announced the alleged resignation, the President had been kidnapped and expelled from the country illegally.

d) The Legislative Decree dismissing the President Manuel Zelaya is without substance, constitutional or legal. This aberrant precedent must not go unpunished.
As a result of the criminal action of submitting the false resignation, the Congress, led by Roberto Michelleti and with direct participation of the Board and members of the various blocs, with the exception of members of the Democratic Unification Party of several members of the Liberal Party; violating all constitutional norms issued a legislative decree whereby they “finalized” the second phase of the implementation of the coup conspiracy.

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It doesn't sound like Zelaya and his government are going to agree to immunity for these liars and violent usurpers. And I'm just scanning the next section, which describes use of the same bullshit fascist procedures to remove Zelaya's entire government--his ministers, his cabinet, the heads of agencies, ambassadors--and to harass, threaten and violently disempower them, and the violent repression of all dissent that followed and is on-going.

Here's an important part about the junta-run upcoming 'election,' and about the U.S.:

VI. CLAIMS OF IMPUNITY AND THE ATTEMPT TO LEGITIMATE THE COUP D’ETAT BY MEANS OF A POLLUTED AND FRAUDULENT ELECTORAL PROCESS WHILE THE PRESIDENT REPRESENTING THE PRINCIPAL POLITICAL THRUST OF THE COUNTRY IS IN EXILE.
The coup leaders aim to legalize and perpetuate the coup through the electoral process, with the exclusive participation of candidates who are coup leaders. Therefore the National Front Against the Coup D’Etat made up of all sectors of Honduran society hopes that the international community will maintain a firm and uncapitulating stance, refusing to recognize a polluted electoral process or any illegitimately elected authorities, since this would constitute a new crime against democracy.

VII. CONCLUSIONS:
1. The coup d’Etat in Honduras is a reaction of the forces of the establishment to impede the progress of the social reform process and to perpetuate its traditional commercial and economic interests with strong external ties.
2. The coup d’Etat has brought the return to fascist practices that have installed in Honduras a criminal dictatorship that is carrying out assassinations, rapes, torture and political persecution, as has been confirmed by the international community.
3. With the coup d’Etat, it became clear once again that the existence of the Armed Forces in Honduras has only served to perpetrate coups d’Etat and to promote a system of repression against human rights and democratic order.
4. The coup d’Etat is an affront to the democratic hopes of the nations of Latin America, to its governments and its presidents, and has shown that despite the public condemnation offered by President Barack Obama, conservative groups in the United States who support the coup d’Etat still hold a monopoly on power in that nation.

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Ouch!

Returning later to read it when time is available.