FIDEL REFLECTION: "What Should be Demanded of the US" - EN-Google Translation

[magbana]

Fidel's reflection on Honduras - a Google translation
Posted by: "Walter Lippmann" [e-mail] walterlx
Thu Jul 16, 2009 7:09 pm (PDT)


(This is a Google translation of Fidel's
reflection. I've fixed a few of the most
glaring errors. The authoritative version
in English will be out tonight or else in
the morning. This is to give readers a
quick general idea.)
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What should be demanded of the United States
16 July 2009

The meeting in Costa Rica did not lead or could it lead to peace. The people of Honduras are not at war, only putschists weapons used against them. They should demand the cessation of its war against the people. Such a meeting between Zelaya and putschists only serve to demoralize the Constitutional President and wear down the energy of the Honduran people.

World public opinion knows what happened in that country through the images broadcast by international television, primarily Telesur, which, without losing a second, transmitted faithfully each of the events in Honduras, the speeches and the unanimous agreement of the agencies international counter-coup.

The world saw the beating that was dumped on men and women, thousands of canisters of tear gas fired into the crowd, rude gestures with the arms of war and gunfire to intimidate, injure or kill people.

It is absolutely false the idea that the U.S. ambassador to Tegucigalpa, Hugo Llorens, ignored or discouraged a coup. I know that he, like the American military advisers, didn't for a minute stop training Honduran troops.

Today it is known that the idea of promoting peace efforts from Costa Rica came in from the offices of the State Department, to help consolidate the military coup.

The coup was conceived and organized by unscrupulous characters on the extreme right, officials were confident that George W. Bush and had been promoted by him.

All, without exception, have a thick file of activities against Cuba. Hugo Llorens, ambassador to Honduras since 2008, is Cuban American. Among the group of ambassadors of United States aggression in Central America, consisting of Robert Blau, ambassador to El Salvador, Stephen McFarland, in Guatemala, and Robert Callahan, in Nicaragua, all appointed by Bush in July and August 2008.

The four are in line with Otto Reich and John Negroponte, who along with Oliver North was responsible for the dirty war against Nicaragua and death squads in Central America, which cost the people of the region tens of thousands of lives.

Negroponte was Bush's representative at the UN, the U.S. intelligence czar, and finally Secretary of State. Both he and Otto Reich, in various ways, were behind the coup in Honduras.

The Soto Cano base in the country, home of the "Joint Task Force Bravo" belonging to the Armed Forces of the United States, is the fulcrum of the main coup in Honduras.

United States has a dark plan to build five more military bases around Venezuela, claiming to replace the Manta in Ecuador.

The Adventure of disparate coup in Honduras has created a really complicated situation in Central America that is not resolved by cheating, deception and lies.

Every day new details are known of the involvement of the United States in this action, which will have serious repercussions throughout Latin America.

The idea of a peace initiative from Costa Rica was transmitted to the President of that country from the State Department when Obama was in Moscow and stated, in a Russian university, that the only was President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya.

The coup plotters were in distress. The initiative sent to Costa Rica wanted to save them. Clearly, each day of delay has a cost to the Constitutional President and tends to dilute the special international support. Yankee maneuver does not increase the chances of peace, quite the contrary, decreases, and the threat of violence grows as the peoples of our America are not resigned to fate that I never have programmed.

With Costa Rica meeting questioned the authority of the UN, the OAS and other institutions that pledged their support to the people of Honduras.

When Micheletti, the de facto president, declared yesterday that he is prepared to resign if Zelaya resigned, it was known that the State Department and the military coup had agreed to replace it and send it back to Congress as part of the maneuver.

The only right at this moment is to demands the U.S. government cease its intervention and stop providing military support to the coup and Honduras to withdraw from its Task Force.

What they were trying to impose on the people of Honduras in the name of peace, is the negation of all the principles by which all nations of this hemisphere fought.

"Respect the rights of others is peace," said Juarez.

Fidel Castro Ruz
July 16, 2009
1 and 12 p.m.

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WALTER LIPPMANN
Los Angeles, California
Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/
"Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo"
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[Peace Patriot]

1. Ah, the US-instigated Costa Rica talks were a circumvention of the OAS and the UN!

Smart Fidel! That had been nagging at the back of my mind--why weren't the OAS and the UN General Assembly, which were strongly and unanimously backing the legitimate government of President Zelaya--sponsoring the talks? Why did the whole matter shift to Costa Rica, and become this informal, unofficial thing, wherein the coup government could gain legitimacy and be treated as equals with Zelaya? This question bothered me, but I couldn't make the answer quite conscious, possibly because Zelaya seemed to be going along with it.

"With Costa Rica meeting questioned the authority of the UN, the OAS and other institutions that pledged their support to the people of Honduras"--Castro

Why didn't Zelaya, Insulza and others insist on a formal OAS or UN process? Because the US simply must be involved--it holds such a grip on Honduras in military and other funding--but the US refused to participate in a process in which it would clearly be outvoted, and wanted a process that it could control. John Negroponte, John McCain, Otto Reich and brethren--the Bushwhack instigators of the coup--hate the OAS and the UN and are committed to controlling them or destroying them. Castro states it precisely--the issue was the legitimacy of the OAS and the UN, as much as the legitimacy of Zelaya vs the coupsters. Zelaya could not refuse to participate in a process by which the US might have been convinced to do the right thing. Suspicious as that process was, he could not say no.

Castro also points out something else that I hadn't quite noticed or made conscious--these several appointments of Bushwhacks to diplomatic positions in late 2008.

"The coup was conceived and organized by unscrupulous characters on the extreme right, officials were confident that George W. Bush and had been promoted by him." (Syntax? Translation? I can't quite follow this. Then...)

"All, without exception, have a thick file of activities against Cuba. Hugo Llorens, ambassador to Honduras since 2008, is Cuban American. Among the group of ambassadors of United States aggression in Central America, consisting of Robert Blau, ambassador to El Salvador, Stephen McFarland, in Guatemala, and Robert Callahan, in Nicaragua, all appointed by Bush in July and August 2008."--Castro

Castro says Negroponte was appointed Sec of State--an error. He means Undersecretary for Latin American Affairs. Negroponte in charge of Latin American affairs also had me wondering. At the time, I thought it was related to the US/Bushwhack-instigated coup attempt in Bolivia. That coup attempt failed (September 2008), then the Bushwhacks were out of the White House. Negroponte was out, but I thought it was very notable that so many Bushwhacks staid in place in diplomatic positions in Latin America through the Obama transition to the present day--and, as Castro is pointing out there, yet more Bushwhacks were appointed at the last minute. Why wasn't Obama and Clinton purging them? Well, here is the answer--Honduras. If Obama and Clinton do not agree with the Honduran putcsh--and, indeed, with the Bushwhack plan for Oil War II-South America (something else Castro mentions)--why have they left all these malevolent characters in place representing the Obama government?

Now I have to admit something. My first instinct about Obama, when the coup occurred--especially when Zelaya ended up in Costa Rica (kidnapped at gunpoint and flown there)--is that Obama had okayed the coup, but had said, 'don't let it get too bloody.' Thus, Zelaya wasn't dropped out of the airplane on his way out of the country--what the coupmongers would like to have done--but was flown safe and sound to a country with a strongly US-influenced government. He ended up alive but exiled, and having the enormously difficult and dangerous task of getting back in. Also, although the coup has arrested over a thousand political prisoners, at this point, and has killed several activists, it is not yet a bloodbath. Frankly, I was surprised there were not more deaths at the airport the other week. This may be by design, in deference to this Obama stipulation--to make it less complicated for the US to install a friendly fascist government in Honduras (whether Zelaya returns, to fill out his term, which ends this year, or not). And IF this is what happened--Obama's okay, but keep it tidy--this certainly gels with other Obama handling of Bushwhack policy--for instance, his continuation of the Forever War (shifted to Afghanistan) and his quick acquiescence to the Financial 9/11 of October 2008 (billions and billions of future US taxpayer dollars larded on the banksters).

Hugo Chavez has said that Obama is a "prisoner of the Empire." That may be a kindly interpretation of Obama's position. It is one that I have favored--that he has good intentions, but his hands are tied on many important matters, possibly a condition he agreed to, in order to get to the White House, where he believes he can do good. But it is getting harder and harder to view Obama as well-intentioned and benevolent, as more and more innocent people are slaughtered in Afghanistan by US "drones," as the kangaroo 'trials' proceed in Guantanamo, and now, as a Negroponte-Reich coup goes forward in Honduras--a coup that Obama clearly has the funding power to stop.

Finally, Castro points to the strategic surrounding of Venezuela, something I have been conscious of--very conscious of--for a long time, and have frequently discussed at DU. Consider...

Colombia--a US client state run by narco-fascists, where the worst human rights abusers in the world enjoy $6 BILLION in US taxpayer military aid, and where many (not just one, to replace Manta, but many) US new bases are now going in--is right on Venezuela's border...

The US 4th Fleet in the Caribbean, newly reconstituted by the Bushwhacks--which even Lula da Silva is worried about--now roams the Caribbean, with Venezuela's biggest oil reserves and operations located on its Caribbean coast, in the state of Zulia (a fascist hotbed)...

And Honduras, another US client state, dominated by a "School of the Americas"-trained military, with one large US military base, with a rightwing coup government now in place--John Negroponte's old "lily pad" country for launching horror on Honduras' neighbors (and on Hondurans as well), with a long coast on the Caribbean not far from Venezuela's northern oil coast, and, possibly even more critical, bordering three countries that now have democratic leftist governments (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala).

What is the point of all of this?

Look at a map! Are they not surrounding Venezuela's northern oil province, Zulia, on the Caribbean, in an arc across the Caribbean?

Oil is the point--which I have often said throughout the last two years of psyops and propaganda about "Chavez the dictator," and all the other bullshit we have seen--since Donald Rumsfeld's infamous op-ed in the Washington Post (a year after his 'retirement'): "The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants Like Chavez."

Rumsfeld has only one goal: commandeering the last of the world's oil supply, by any means possible--including the slaughter of a hundred thousand innocent people in Iraq, in one week alone-- for enormous short-term profit. It is NOT "smart" to start a war in South America. But it could be very profitable from many perspectives, including those of the war profiteers, weapons traffickers and drug traffickers.

[magbana]

2. Try the official translated version i posted to the list and here is their

translation of the sentence that was so confusing:

"The coup was conceived and organized by unscrupulous characters on the far-right, who were officials in the confidence of George W. Bush and had been promoted by him."

[flamingdem]

4. So the song remains the same

in spite of Trinidad. Looks like the Blockade against Cuba will not be ending soon in this environment.

[magbana]

3. And, through this, it makes sense that the Michelettis would take their

offer to the OAS.