SOA Grads involved in Zelaya coup

Digging deep, you will find the School of Americas has graduates involved in the Honduran coup d'etat which ousted the Democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya. This revelation represents the pattern that has often times paved way for military control and repression away from nationalized left-leaning governments. Historians who have been following the US/Latin America relationship describe the chain of events as a

Featured in this report - PJ Crawley; Deputy spokesman, U.S. Department of State Hendrik Voss; Communications Director, SOA Watch www.soaw.org

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[os333w]

traduscan si quieren! chaves odea a usa y zelaya tambien.. si dejan que zelaya tome poder cuenten a honduras como un enemigo y yo siendo hondureno y mitad de mi famila aqui y otra mitad en honduras.. soporto las fuerzas armadas por lo que isieron.. no otra cuba no al chavismo

[unbraid]

"What a revolting predicament this has turned out to be"....

Or should it be phrased, "What a banana republic, this continues to be?"

[CloeBuckingham]

There was no coup in Honduras: watch?v=V0Uf_fah5p8 See my video.

[m0indc]

Son más de dos meses en resistencia, la crisis política siguen en caminada al vertedero de posiciones y ubicaciones, el pueblo en resistencia jala por su lado cada quien con sus convicciones, algunos extremistas y algunos aburridos.

[hvoss]

Call the State Department at 202-647-6575 or 202-647-4000 and ask for Secretary Clinton. Deliver the following message: "Legally define the de facto regime in Honduras as a military coup and ensure that the coup plotters will be held responsible for the killings and human rights abuses."

[closethesoa]

The 5th delegation of international observers maintaining presence in Honduras since the coup denounces the grave human rights violations perpetrated by the state security forces, including the national police, the Command of Special Operations COBRA, and the army.

On the 46 day of peaceful resistance against the coup regime, the armed forces and the police repressed protest with force. Hundreds of police and military occupied Tegucigalpa, using tear gas, pepper spray, and live bullets.

[slimmsayton]

The US continues military aid to Honduras despite President Obamas condemnation of the illegal coup. The New York Times quoted president Obama to saying that We do not want to go back to a dark past, in which in which military coups override elections. The Public Affairs Officer of the School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute of Security Operations (SOA/ WHINSEC) confirmed to the NCR July 14, 2009 that WHINSEC continues to train Honduran soldiers at Fort Benning.

[h84413]

Zelaya wanted to hold a non-binding referendum, which the local elite described as a power grab. In reality, Hondurans would simply have been asked whether they wanted to vote in Nov. to elect a constituent assembly to rewrite the '82 Constitution — Zelaya's successor would have been chosen the same election.

A more likely motive for the coup lies in the Honduran oligarchys fear of the people writing their own Constitution.

[larissabudin1]

The official reasons for Zelaya's ouster was that he violated Article 239 which prohibits even expressing any opinion in favor of changing presidential term limits. Coup-president, Micheletti, had called for the same in 1985. He tried to get the Congress to declare itself a Constituent Assembly.

Then, no one was exiled. Then again, the president back then did the bidding for the oligarchy.

Zelaya based the constitutional proposal on a bottom up approach with the people taking charge.

[closethesoa]

In Ecuador, traditional parties and wealthy elites labeled Correa "dictatorial" after the president called for the drafting of a new constitution. In the end however a large plurality of voters approved the new 2008 constitution which provides for free health care, a universal right to water and prohibition of its privatization and the redistribution of large unused landholdings. The constitution declares that Ecuador is a "pacifist state" and outlaws foreign military bases on Ecuadoran soil.