No subject

spoken of the "two parties" involved and the need for "dialogue" to 
restore the constitutional order, legitimating in this way the 
coupsters. 

The State Department has refused to certify legally the events in 
Honduras as a "coup", it has not suspended nor frozen financial 
support or trade with the country, nor has it taken steps to pressure 
effectively the de facto regime. 

Washington manipulated the Organization of American States to 
increase the time devoted to debate what needed to be done and in 
this manner did not support the immediate return of president Zelaya 
to power, as part of a strategy to legitimate the de facto government 
and wear down the honduran people, who continue to resist the coup. 

Secretary of State Clinton and her spokespersons stopped speaking of 
the return of president Zelaya to power and later designated Costa 
Rican president Arias as a mediator, and have now referred to the 
dictator who assumed power illegitimately during the coup, Roberto 
Micheletti, as an "interim president". 

The strategy of "negotiating" with the coupsters was imposed by 
Obama's government as a way of discrediting president Zelaya--holding 
him responsible for provoking the coup--and legitimating the coupsters. 

United States congressional representatives--democrats and 
republicans--organized a visit by representatives of the coupsters to 
Washington, and received them with distinction at a variety of 
institutions in the US capital. 

In spite of the fact that republican senator John McCain coordinated 
the visit of the coupsters to Washington through a lobbying 
organization called the Cormac Group, actually Bill Clinton's lawyer 
and close friend of Hillary, Lanny Davis, was contracted as a 
"lobbyist" to gain public acceptance of Washington for the de facto 
government in Honduras. 

Otto Reich and venezuelan Robert Carmona-Borjas, former lawyer to 
dictator Pedro Carmona during the coup in Venezuela in April 2002, 
helped from Washington to set the stage for the coup against 
president Zelaya in Honduras. 

The planning team for the coup in Honduras designated by Washington 
also included a group of US ambassadors recently named to central 
american countries, experts in the destabilization of the cuban 
revolution, and also Adolfo Frank, formerly in charge of USAID for Cuba. 

No one can doubt the involvement of Washington in the coup in 
Honduras against president Zelaya that began this past june 28. Many 
analysts, leaders, as well as presidents, have denounced it. 
Nonetheless, the majority concur that the administration of Barack 
Obama had no role in the honduran coup, holding responsible in its 
place remnants of the government of George W. Bush and the hawks who 
continue to walk the hallways of the White House. The evidence 
demonstrates that yes, it is certain that the hawks and the usual 
suspects of coups and sabotage in Latin America have participated 
this time, and there also exists ample proof of the role of Obama's 
government as well. 

Eva Golinger 
Rebelion