Memo-October- 2009

Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009

IT’S WORTH REPEATING

Date: 01-October-09

From: News Center Publications

Subject: October Caribbean Memo-2009

Dear Friends:

Former Honduras President Manuel Zelaya returned under the cover to night to take refuge inside Brazil’s embassy in the Central American capital of Tegucigalpa after he was forced out of office on June 28th.

Zelaya complains he was ousted by a military coup and that he should be restored to power immediately . The government reported at the time soldiers acted on the authority of an arrest order issued by the Honduras attorney general.

Interestingly enough international press reports have tended to take the word of Zelaya and reject the official position of the Honduras government.

There may be at least one reason.

Because the Organization of American States [OAS] and U.S. President Barack Obama believe Zelaya should be restored to power.

So in our opinion, it’s worth repeating what we reported in our August Caribbean Memo about what happened.

“The government reported at the time soldiers acted on the authority of an arrest order issued by the Honduras attorney general.”

“All of this gained international attention after President Zelaya tried and failed to have the right to be elected president again and again like his friend, Venezuela’s leftist President Hugo Chavez.”

This is not the first time news stories on such events get confused in the public eye.

On Sept. 11, 1973, it was reported General Augusto Pinochet and the military carried out a coup to end the government of Salvador Allende who wanted to convert Chile into a second Cuba.

For many, including the late U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy [D-Ma], the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency [CIA] was responsible for the Allende ouster. The CIA was not.

Pinochet’s action allowed that South American country to become perhaps the most prosperous and democratic in Latin America.

Unfortunately, in Chile and again in Honduras, leftist political positions were given priority in the press. In Chile, it took a while for the truth to emerge. The same is likely to be true in Honduras.

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