OAS Meeting: Micheletti Talks Tough

[Downwinder]

http://hondurasoye.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/oas-meeting-micheletti-talks-tough/

[Judi Lynn]

1. Love that photo of Insulza shaking hands with the thing.

Insulza has real "gravitas," and Goriletti looks like a cheap hustler trying to carry off a bluff.

One man is a serious, valuable person due to his character, the other isn't worth the powder it would take to blow him up.

http://hondurasoye.files.wordpress.com.nyud.net:8090/2009/08/micheletti-insulza.jpg
Thanks, Downwinder, and magbana.

[Peace Patriot]

2. This part is interesting...

“'We are not afraid of an embargo by anybody,' he said after meeting with a delegation of foreign ministers from the Organization of American States pressing for Zelaya’s return. 'We have already analyzed this and the country can carry on firmly and calmly without your support and that of other nations.'

“'Nobody is coming here to impose anything on us, unless troops come from somewhere else and force us,' Micheletti said."

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Regarding the first point--"we are not afraid of an embargo...we have analyzed this"--obviously the $190 million that Hillary Clinton is funneling to them through the US taxpayer-funded "Millennium Corporation," the $43 million that John McCain has funneled to them through his US taxpayer-funded "International Republican Institute," and other US taxpayer funds--USAID-NED, CIA, DEA, Pentagon, et al--and private global corporate predator and war profiteer funds, are shoring up the coupsters, and at least they will continue eating and wearing nice clothes. The plan is to put the squeeze on the poor.

On the second point--that only troops "from somewhere" will dislodge them--is even more ominous, because US war planners may well be setting this up as the trigger--or one possible trigger--by which to unleash a second US oil war, primarily against Venezuela and Ecuador. (Ecuador's president recently said that they have intelligence that, "After Zelaya, I'm next."). These are the two prized oil reserves the profits from which are now being 'wasted' on schools and health care, when they could be building second yachts and mansions. A third is Brazil, whose president has said that the reconstitution of the US 4th Fleet in the Caribbean is a threat to Brazil's oil, and who is preparing careful regulation of Brazil's new major oil finds, to benefit Brazils' poor.

I don't think the Honduran coup--nor the coup's obduracy--are happening in a vacuum. They are part of a war plan--including the recently announced, seven new US military bases in Colombia. Colombia borders Venezuela's and Ecuador's major oil regions. Honduras is strategically located to the north, with a long coast on the Caribbean, access to the Pacific and a big US military base, and it has a history of being used as a "lily pad" country for US aggression in the region. They cannot "lose" Honduras (whose ousted president proposed turning the US base into a commercial airport!). It is too important both for subduing the adjacent democracies, which all now have leftist governments, and for providing air support for forces in Colombia, and fascist secessionists within Venezuela's oil region, when they make their move.

This is an increasingly intolerable situation for Venezuela. Last year, the US/Colombia dropped ten 500 lb US "smart bombs" on a temporary FARC hostage negotiator's camp just inside Ecuador's border, and raided over the border, slaughtering 25 sleeping people. This incident almost started a war between the US/Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela. And it is just such a border incident--Colombia/Venezuela, Colombia/Ecuador, Honduras/Nicaragua (perhaps with Venezuelan involvement), or Venezuela/US Navy in the Caribbean--that could be used to start the war that Rumsfeld left on the drawing board. It could be a "Gulf of Tonkin" (entirely manufactured incident), or a deliberate provocation (the US/Colombia bombing/raid on Ecuador last year; the US violating Venezuela's territory with spy overflights last year, over its Caribbean islands--these and other incidents may have been test runs of provocation mechanisms).

Anyway, Micheletti may not be just blustering, when he says that it would take "troops from somewhere" to oust the coup. He may know what Honduras' role is going to be in starting this war, or prosecuting it. For instance, a hostile move by Honduras against Nicaragua (an ALBA member) could well bring Venezuela into it. Another hostile move by Colombia against Ecuador (also an ALBA member) would do the same. Then Venezuela would have a two-front war on its hands; time for the fascists in the oil-rich Venezuelan northern province of Zulia to declare their "independence" from the Chavez government and request US military support.

Honduras is a critical factor. Otherwise, Colombia is out there on its own as the "lily pad" for the second US oil war--hated and reviled by everyone in the region. Also, control of the Caribbean is vital to this plan for netting in as much of South America's oil as possible, and defending that theft. For this, Honduras is absolutely essential.

Why is Micheletti talking about "troops from somewhere"? No one has threatened him with troops. I don't believe there is a mechanism for an OAS "peacekeeping mission," and USASUR, while Brazil proposed a "common defense," has not yet organized one (Colombia has been obstructing it). The UN? The US would block it. Micheletti is the only one using "troops"--against his own people! So why is this on his mind? Is he thinking of doing something that might result in "troops from somewhere" entering Honduras and kicking his illegitimate ass out?

[Judi Lynn]

3. You may remember the visiting pro-coup, anti-democratic rabid poster

who chewed the scenery here, attempting to build up a core of anti-Zelaya haters only a short time before the coup, only bagging one bedraggled, pathetic right-wing troll, did "share" with us her unanticipated claim that Venezuela and Nicaragua BOTH were planning to invade Honduras. She said everyone was talking about it where she lived.

It sounded so incredibly stupid and dishonest, it's unlikely anyone spent any time discussing it with her.

She dropped that nugget and fled, probably to take cover before the two terrifying armies swarmed across the border per Zelaya's command and got busy redistributing the jewelry, country club memberships, and luxury cars of the better-offs, the "base" for Micheletti.

There is every likelihood the coup people, in their audacity, will arrange a faux incident, like the events already created in Colombia, whose military has been known to plant bombs to go off in cities, then claim the FARCs did it. Once they have publicized that bogus event through the pro-coup television stations they allow to continue broadcasting, they'll feel free to, as Rumsfeld already warned, as "friends" of the Pentagon, ask them to step in and save their lily white asses by laying waste to potential "leftists" in true genocidal form, following the patterns already put in place by other fascist puppets serving US commercial/right-wing political interests.