Backers
of ousted Honduras President Manuel Zelaya
after
clashing
with police at the airport where he was attempting
to
land, July 5.
Proceso, Honduras
Ousted Honduran Leader
Blames U.S. for Crisis
"The U.S., being the power that controls the sphere
of those dependent on the dollar, has more than enough influence over its
constituents to take immediate action to address the conflict."
-- Ousted Honduran President Manuel
Zelaya
Translated By Miguel Gutierrez
July 5, 2009
Honduras
- Proceso - Original Article (Spanish)
Tegucigalpa Zelaya today blamed the world powers,
particularly the government of the United States,
which is presided over by Barack Obama, for the political and institutional
crisis in his country. Zelaya said that the U.S.,
being the power "that controls the sphere of those dependent on the dollar,
has more than enough influence over its constituents to take immediate
action" to address the conflict.
In an interview with channel Telesur, who had access to the Venezuelan aircraft that was
transporting Zelaya and which unsuccessfully sought to land in Honduras, said
the international community should intervene to solve the problem, because,
"I will return tomorrow and the day after that and every day thereafter,
with the intention of liberating my people; all is going according to plan with
the other presidents."
He said that the events of that Sunday afternoon were a,
"social rebellion, and that the people have the capacity to rise up
against such an outrage, as you have seen today," he said, as a kind of
"justification" for the disturbances and their consequences, which
resulted at the outset, with one person dead and several wounded.
"These gentlemen can be sure that they cannot govern an
army like the Honduran Army, and they cannot govern a people like those of
Honduras; it is time to abandon the groups that sustain their privileges by
impeding the participation of the people - but I will free them," Zelaya
said, with evident tension in his voice.
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Ousted Honduras' President Manuel
Zelaya in El Salvador,
after his plane was not permitted to land in
Honduras.
Zelaya indicated that he had flown four and a half hours to
land at Toncontín Airport
in the capital, but that the military had parked cars in the middle of the
runway. When I came up to the cockpit of the plane, the pilots who came with me
indicated that we couldn't land because the plane would crash."
"If I had had a parachute, I would have immediately
jumped from the plane, but we didn't," said Zelaya, after revealing that
he would meet with his colleagues from the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas,
"to design the next step of the agreed-upon strategy." There in El
Salvador, awaits Argentine President
Cristina Fernández, the president of Paraguay,
Fernando Lugo, Ecuadorian leader Rafael Correa, OAS Secretary General Jose
Miguel Insulza and the President of the U.N. General Assembly, Nicaraguan
Miguel D'Escoto.
In the Venezuelan plane that was transporting Zelaya to
Honduras was Miguel D'Escoto, former [Honduran] foreign minister Patricia
Rhodes, a bodyguard and a journalist from Telesur,
it was reported.
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