Blame-storming Honduras

Hoping something will stick to the United States, the International left is throwing fingers at the US for the coup in Honduras. I wrote earlier that Chavez blamed the US, but Honduran President Manuel Zelaya tells a different story. Apparently the US thwarted a coup on Friday (Reuters link);

“Everything was in place for the coup and if the U.S. embassy had approved it, it would have happened. But they did not … I’m only still here in office thanks to the United States,” he said in the newspaper interview published on Sunday.

“Last (Friday) morning, at around 1 or 2 a.m., Congress was passing a decree to incapacitate me and the armed forces were mobilized. But phone calls were made — I can’t say by who or from where — but these calls stopped the coup,” he said.

Funny how that isn’t a headline across every banner on the internet, isn’t it?

The Uber-Left at Venezuelanalysis is blaming the US of course and all the way back to Reagan. See, the whole problem is over Zelaya calling for a referendum on a constitutional convention to rewrite the Honduran constitution – mainly because he doesn’t like the way he’s hamstrung by the current constitution. Eva Golinger, a US citizen living the Bolivarian dream in Venezuela writes at Venezulanalysis;

The current constitution, written in 1982 during the height of the Reagan Administration’s dirty war in Central America….

What Ms. Golinger fails to note is that in 1981 the US convinced the military junta ruling the country to turn over control to a civilian, democratic government. Who was president in 1981?

On her own blog “Postcards from the Revolution”, Ms. Golinger blames Obama for the coup, despite what Zelaya has reported;

The Organization of American States, ALBA nations, European Community, United Nations, UNASUR, MERCOSUR and even the United States have now ALL condemned the military coup underway in Honduras. HOWEVER, the Honduran Congress, Supreme Court and military are refusing to recognize their actions as a coup d’etat.

Still the other nation to not unequivocally call for President Zelaya’s immediate rescue and reinstatement is the United States….

Golinger also makes the point that the general who led the coup is a graduate of the US’s School of the Americas. Just more red meat for the conspiracy theorists on the Left.

While Zelayas calls for peaceful resistance to the coup, Chavez is threatening to use force to return him to office.

Funny how the same folks that a few months ago condemned US influence in the region are now upset because we won’t use our influence. Anyone else get the feeling that no matter what we do, we’re wrong?

As far as I’m concerned, the Army did what they’re supposed to do – protect and defend the constitution. But Golinger and the rest of the world have no respect for the Honduran constitution. the Honduran Supreme Court and the Honduran Congress. They have more respect for one little tinpot Chavista dictator who didn’t listen to the other branches of government when they told him what he was doing was unconstitutional.

Besides, if they make Obama feel guilty enough, maybe he’ll shower some US taxpayer dollars on them.

Much more on this subject at Fausta’s Blog.

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