"For once in its long history of outrages against its 'backyard,' the Empire is behaving with discretion and prudence. But ousted President Zelaya wants to return to power riding a gringo tank."
Supporters of ousted
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya clash with soldiers near the Toncontin
International Airport, where Zelaya was attempting to land.
For once in its long history
of outrages against its “backyard,” the Empire is behaving with discretion and
prudence, distancing itself from the one Latin American military coup that it
hasn't had a hand in. And now we have the “anti-imperialist” Chacumbele demanding that the Empire put its gangs
into Honduras.
[Editor's Note: In Cuba, a Chacumbeleis someone who
meets his death by his own actions. It is said that a Havana man named Chacumbele
was a womanizer, and that one woman fell madly in love with him. Chacumbele ran around with other ladies, and so the first
woman had a fit, and followed Chacumbele until she found him with his
new lover, and proceeded to carve him up with a knife.]
Since he doesn't dare attack
Obama directly, Chavez explains his conduct by pretending that he's a “hostage
of the Empire,” and for that reason, he cannot act himself.
Equally pathetic, if not more
so, is [ousted Honduran President] Zelaya. After all, like all oligarchs in his
country, among whom he is the most conspicuous, he's a long-time Pitiyanqui [little Yankee] himself. He has said
nothing less than, “Obama, who has great power, should act in Honduras.” It must
be the end of the world. Zelaya wants to return to power riding a gringo tank.
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What's really striking is that this other Chacumbele [Zelaya] didn't demand anything
more from Brazil President Lula than a few words of condemnation of the coup. Nor
did he demand anything of [Uruguay President] Tabaré
or [Chilian President] Bachelet,
who haven't been particularly talkative on the subject.
Perhaps if we stopped to
think about this a bit we'd realize that one of our most serious mistakes has
been not to allow room for the continent's democracies to themselves take on
the search for a solution to the Honduran crisis.
When both of these Chacumbeles and the lecherous [Nicaraguan President]
Ortega grabbed center stage - with the backing of Cuba and the nauseating
opportunism of Insulza [Secretary General of the OAS], these protagonists
were caught - and they prudently stepped back behind other governments.
Whoever heard the Chacumbele in Managua must have thought that although
the coup was unacceptable, the position of the Venezuelan president was no less
so. This Chavista meddling is worthy of certain
episodes in the imperial history of the United States.
A PDVSA
[Venezuala's ruling party] aircraft carrying Zelaya, in
the presence of numerous Venezuelan activists sent to Honduras, along with
election boxes for the “investigation,” are clearly acts that are disruptive of
the sovereignty of Honduras.
Ousted Honduras' President Manuel
Zelaya in El Salvador,
after his plane was not permitted to land in Honduras.
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It is worth noting that if
the Organization of American States had met before Insulza's
visit to Managua (where he undermined his position as mediator), in the midst
of universal condemnation of the coup, it's feasible that the continent's democratic
governments would have acted with a view to reaching a negotiated
solution.
But when it comes to the
battle to restore the ineffable “constitutional thread” in Honduras, the governments
now stepping forward to lead have a democratic competence as dubious as that of
Nicaragua and our own [Venezuela]. Meanwhile in the background are the
governments of Cuba, which has none, and that of Cristina Kirchner, who just
suffered an electoral fall, and Correa, who seems to want to challenge the stardom
of the other Chacumbeles. Now you can understand why
Lula, Bachelet, Tabaré and
even Obama are going no further than what they've already offered. This is
diplomatic prudence.
