Start with the fact that each central american nation has repudiated the overthrow of the elected Zelaya. The Organization of American States has condemned the coup as an unacceptable return to form for the region. Then, appreciate the fact that Romeo Vasquez, the military ringleader of the coup, is formerly a student of the US government's School of the Americas. What is the degree of American interest in the fall of Zelaya's left-friendly regime?
Elizabeth DiNovella at The Progressive writes:
Let's hope that when the story behind the coup emerges, taxpayer dollars, through groups such as USAID, are not found to be supporting the coup plotters, like it did in Venezuela. President Obama has said he was "deeply concerned" and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Zelaya's arrest should be condemned. At least Obama did not endorse this ill-fated coup, unlike the Bush Administration's immediate diplomatic recognition of coup plotters in Venezuela in 2002. But Obama could do more.
And sources from Institute of Public Accuracy:
GREG GRANDIN, professor of history at New York University:"Obama needs to align his position with the rest of the American republics, and not just express 'concern' about events in Honduras, but repudiate the coup and its plotters, and demand the restoration of Manuel Zelaya to the presidency."
JUAN ALMENDARES, president of the Honduran Peace Committee: "What we are looking [at] now is, we are going back to [a] repressive situation. Some of the advisers of the [new] government have been perpetrators, torture perpetrators, of the 1980s. Some of these people think like Pinochet, and they are comparing Zelaya with Salvador Allende. And we have here in Honduras a different situation. We have a government who were doing not a referendum; they were doing just a survey, a simple survey, to ask people whether they want to have a constitutional reform. But we have an alliance between the very powerful class in this country [and] the military."
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