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**preachadaq** · 07-24-2009, 11:54 PM

Generally, anyone Chavez backs should be out of power.

Generally, anytime a democratically elected leader is removed from power without due process, it's wrong.

Zelaya was overthrown because a) he installed socially progressive policies which irked the Honduran elite who have profited mightily off the backs of the proletariat for decades and b) he began to migrate from the US governed CAFTA, and move towards an independent trade bloc in ALBA which would cut the US out of valuable imports and cheap labor.

Dole and Chiquita, specifically were "outraged" when Zelaya attempted to raise the minimum wage for the banana farmers (some as young as 14) who toil in the fields under brutal conditions 7 days a week, 12 hours a day.

Remember Chiquita (formally United Fruit) has a long and bloody history in central America, specifically Honduras, and became (in 2007) the first U.S. company to be convicted of conducting financial operations with a terrorist operation (right wing Honduras paramilitaries). Thanks to our current Attorney General Eric Holder who brokered the sweetheart deal, they were able to settle for a small sum of 25M over 5 years.

There's also the fact that Zelaya was attempting to repurpose the current military base in Palmerola for commercial use seeing how it is home to the only tenable runway for commercial jumbo jets. The only problem is Palmerola is one of the few airfields available to the U.S. in Central America and so obviously there would be a conflict of interest here as well. It was only a few weeks after Zelaya announced that he was going to proceed with plans to convert Palmerola into a civilian airport using ALBA funds that the coup was executed. Could be a coincidence.

Bottom line though... the U.S. connections to the Honduran elite run DEEP and LONG. Not to mention, most of the generals who orchestrated the coup were trained by the U.S. via the School of the Americas.

To quote Michael Parenti:

"The Honduran military is trained, advised, equipped, indoctrinated, and financed by the United States national security state. The generals would never have dared to move without tacit consent from the White House or the Pentagon and CIA."

The coverage of this is a joke, not surprising, but a joke nonetheless.

07-24-2009, 11:54 PM	#4
preachadaq Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 413 Senior Member	Generally, anyone Chavez backs should be out of power. Generally, anytime a democratically elected leader is removed from power without due process, it's wrong. Zelaya was overthrown because a) he installed socially progressive policies which irked the Honduran elite who have profited mightily off the backs of the proletariat for decades and b) he began to migrate from the US governed CAFTA, and move towards an independent trade bloc in ALBA which would cut the US out of valuable imports and cheap labor. Dole and Chiquita, specifically were "outraged" when Zelaya attempted to raise the minimum wage for the banana farmers (some as young as 14) who toil in the fields under brutal conditions 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. Remember Chiquita (formally United Fruit) has a long and bloody history in central America, specifically Honduras, and became (in 2007) the first U.S. company to be convicted of conducting financial operations with a terrorist operation (right wing Honduras paramilitaries). Thanks to our current Attorney General Eric Holder who brokered the sweetheart deal, they were able to settle for a small sum of 25M over 5 years. There's also the fact that Zelaya was attempting to repurpose the current military base in Palmerola for commercial use seeing how it is home to the only tenable runway for commercial jumbo jets. The only problem is Palmerola is one of the few airfields available to the U.S. in Central America and so obviously there would be a conflict of interest here as well. It was only a few weeks after Zelaya announced that he was going to proceed with plans to convert Palmerola into a civilian airport using ALBA funds that the coup was executed. Could be a coincidence. Bottom line though... the U.S. connections to the Honduran elite run DEEP and LONG. Not to mention, most of the generals who orchestrated the coup were trained by the U.S. via the School of the Americas. To quote Michael Parenti: "The Honduran military is trained, advised, equipped, indoctrinated, and financed by the United States national security state. The generals would never have dared to move without tacit consent from the White House or the Pentagon and CIA." The coverage of this is a joke, not surprising, but a joke nonetheless.
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