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Charles notes a report by Narco News’ Tamar Sharabi that Andres Pavon, the head of CODEH, the Committee for Human Rights in Honduras and a key figure among those backing the lawfully-elected government and resisting the tyranny of the Micheletti coup, has been charged by the coup régime with “defamation of Romeo Vasquez Velasquez,” the general of the armed forces who is working for the golpistas, or coup leadership.
His crime? Urging Hondurans to boycott the fake elections and warning that the golpistas were planning to stage a massacre of Honduran people and then try to make it look like resistance workers did it.
Just as Seymour Hersh’s articles warning of the Bush Administration’s planned attacks on Iran were likely the key reason those attacks didn’t happen, Pavon’s bravery in spreading the word about the alleged planned massacres may well be what keeps them from happening. This is particularly true now that word of them has even made it to non-Spanish-language media, especially in the US, the chances of the golpistas being able to spin any such attack have dropped dramatically.
[UPDATE: Charles notes that the defamation charge is a month old, and the "impeding the election" charge is a new charge against Pavon.]
(Crossposted at Mercury Rising.)
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Let’s hope so; better yet, how about the ObamaRahma Admin indicating that because the Congress refused to reseat Zelaya before the so called elections, it won’t recognize the election(as it once said it wouldn’t do!!!)
Did they refuse to reseat Zelaya or did they refuse to do so without conditions? I’m not too sure what happened to those negotiations designed to produce a pre-election compromise government.
Things were off to a promising start before Lanny Davis — one of Hillary’s good buddies — and his fellow coworkers on Micheletti’s behalf started going to work.
Grrrrrrr. This is so disturbing. Thanks for covering this.
US not interested in promoting democracy. Nope. Promoting oligarchy.
“The United States is also involved in the coup through a network of agencies that funnel money and training to anti-government groups. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) contribute to right-wing organizations that supported the coup, including the Peace and Democracy Movement and the Civil Democratic Union. Many of the officers that bundled Zelaya off to San Jose were trained at the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation, the former “School for the Americas” that has seen torturers and coup leaders from all over Latin America pass through its doors.
The Obama administration condemned the coup, but when Zelaya journeyed to the Honduran-Nicaragua border, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton denounced him for being “provocative.” It was a strange statement, since the State Department said nothing about a report by the Committee of Disappeared Detainees in Honduras charging 1,100 human rights violations by the coup regime, including detentions, assaults, and murder.
Davis claims that the coup was a “legal” maneuver to preserve democracy. But that’s a hard argument to make, given some of its architects. One is Fernando Joya, a former member of Battalion 316, a paramilitary death squad. Joya fled the country after being charged with kidnapping and torturing several students in the 1980s, but he has now resurfaced as a “special security advisor” to the coup makers. ”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/conn-hallinan/honduran-coup-the-us-conn_b_252836.html