July 14, 2009 Why did Hugo Chavez call the so called Honduran coup against Zelaya as a coup against him-Chavez? We think you know he answer: it is his coup, Zelaya is his puppet pawn and Correa is his Queen, if one were playing chess.
 
The following article calls Correa a "protege" of Chavez. He is not a protege- he is a formal and full partner in every way- Correa is Queen- a nimble and dishonest minx- to Chavez's wooden, one move at a time plodding king piece. Correa, by dint of his lesser standing, more nimbly moves weapons, FARC money and drugs and materiel for the Chavez-ALBA by-marriage units. Correa and Chavez are united as one in their polymorphic unity of fake democracies for cartel socialism. Zelaya was one more pawn. The people of Honduras, now awoken, will have to be more vigilant than ever before now that Correa and Chavez have targeted their small nation. Freedom is never free.
 
 Mary Anastasia O’Grady clearly explains  “Why Honduras Sent Zelaya Away”:

“…Besides eagerly trampling the constitution, Mr. Zelaya had demonstrated that he was ready to employ the violent tactics of chavismo to hang onto power. The decision to pack him off immediately was taken in the interest of protecting both constitutional order and human life.

Two incidents earlier this year make the case. The first occurred in January when the country was preparing to name a new 15-seat Supreme Court, as it does every seven years. An independent board made up of members of civil society had nominated 45 candidates. From that list, Congress was to choose the new judges.

Mr. Zelaya had his own nominees in mind, including the wife of a minister, and their names were not on the list. So he set about to pressure the legislature. On the day of the vote he militarized the area around the Congress and press reports say a group of the president's men, including the minister of defense, went to the Congress uninvited to turn up the heat. The head of the legislature had to call security to have the defense minister removed.

In the end Congress held its ground and Mr. Zelaya retreated. But the message had been sent: The president was willing to use force against other institutions.

In May there was an equally scary threat to peace issued by the Zelaya camp as the president illegally pushed for a plebiscite on rewriting the constitution. Since the executive branch is not permitted to call for such a vote, the attorney general had announced that he intended to enforce the law against Mr. Zelaya.
 
A week later some 100 agitators, wielding machetes, descended on the attorney general's office. "We have come to defend this country's second founding," the group's leader reportedly said. "If we are denied it, we will resort to national insurrection."

These experiences frightened Hondurans because they strongly suggested that Mr. Zelaya, who had already aligned himself with Mr. Chávez, was now emulating the Venezuelan's power-grab. Other Chávez protégés -- in Bolivia, Ecuador and Nicaragua -- have done the same, refusing to accept checks on their power, making use of mobs and seeking to undermine institutions….” Read the article here.

We say that freedom is never free and that democracy is not just about elections. Then again, liars like Fidel Castro say he holds free and fair elections in his Cuban democracy.....one party, no opposition, no free speech, no open media and no human rights. If you agree with Correa that Cuban democracy is for you, please go and live in Havana....and take Correa with you. We want you to feel what it is like to every moment, as Cubans do, face your death. And while you are applauding the horrible cartel that is Castro's Cuba, know how much your work to replicate this island gulag inside Ecuador is immoral.

Here is a real analysis of today's world:

“…"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit and Happiness." "Good governance" depends on limited government upholding these rights, and not "repressing them" (as you later say) under the pretense of "pro-choice," "spreading the wealth around," or "redistributive change." 

This is about more than holding elections - it's also about what happens between them. Repression takes many forms, and too many nations are plagued by problems that condemn their people to poverty. No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves, or police can be bought off by drug traffickers. No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top, or the head of the Port Authority is corrupt….” Read this article here.

ECrisis commends Gustavo Coronel for trying to compare the Venezuelan coup to the Honduran presidential removal:

“…The referendum former President Manuel Zelaya attempted to hold in order to keep himself in power was illegal under Honduran law, and his removal was the legal remedy for it.  But just as important is to understand that this Honduran would-be dictator was only following a strategy that had already worked in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador...” Read this article here. 

We commend Gustavo but his analysis falls short in some areas. Indeed, Correa needed no time to reveal his true colors. Correa just hid them better than does Morales or Ortega, following Correa's own paid Washington advisors and lobbyists. Correa always screamed his allegiance to Castro and has always stated that there is only one way for governments to act- replicating Fidel Castro. Why no one wanted to listen to him is unfathomable.
 
And here we have the mother of all propagandists....Hillary Clinton trying desperately to cover up her own role.... and that of Barack Hussein Obama and Dan Restrepo and Tom Shannon who lied like dogs to the American public.... and the world to aid and abet with US monies and prestige Chavez, Correa, Morales and Zelaya: This article spins a wide yarn and makes up stories whole cloth, out of thin air:

“Zelaya… He'd run roughshod over the Honduran constitution and defied the country's Supreme Court and other institutions in pushing a referendum designed to offer him another term in office. And Honduras' military hadn't seized power but immediately turned government over to ... president, Roberto Michelleti….” Read this article here.

ECrisis finds the entire Chavez-Clinton team up, converged at the OAS, a massively dishonest and irresponsible Obama-Soros ploy of dramatic proportions which almost ruined a nation.... a nation which to this date they care nothing about. Worse yet, Hillary Clinton today, as seen in the above news article is lying about her directions to the OAS, her removal of support for Insulza and her massive monies  gifted to Zelaya-Honduran ALBA installation projects, also called US AID and State Department's co-funding of the ALBA communist cartel constitution in Honduras. Mrs. Clinton does not want her role as funder in chief to be known even as she scrambles to save Soros's man in the White [along with 95% of  of all White House employees as Obama appointees now] from the ALBA drugs expanding team of Soros and Obama. Why Tom Shannon allows himself to be their lackey for selling this screed is quite beyond us.

For his part, Michelletti has also bowed to the Clinton-Obama team. He hired one of their own- Mr. Bennett Ratcliff, a leftist operative who has infiltrated Micheletti and reports to pro-Zelaya Restrepo.

And he coordinates for the state- for Honduras- with Lanny Davis. For his part, Davis apologized to his Democratic Party operatives in Congress and around the Obama team on Friday, under oath, before the US Congress for his paid role in representing Hondurans - a money making adventure which he acknowledged would make him money and make his friends such as communist Congresspersons such as Ms. Lee, Ms. Jackson Lee and Delahunt angry. Operating on the theory, he explained in one of the worst confessions by an American lobbyist, he said in effect that he just needed the money. Worse yet, Mr. Davis will make sure that, as  go between for the Hondurans and Michelletti that nothing- not one scrap of truth will emerge about Hillary Clinton's role in funding Zelaya.

Here is another take:

“…Since the negotiations in Costa Rica recessed, with Chávez (unlike Zelaya) characterizing them as [13] dead, Chávez has produced few outbursts about Honduras, with the apparent exception of a July 12 “cadena.” (Chávez’s cadenas, often hours long, are required to be broadcast by [14] all Venezuelan radio and television stations.) There, he urged the United States to be firm in [15] returning Zelaya to power. He said that if Zelaya is not returned to power, Venezuela will not recognize any president chosen in the scheduled November Honduran elections….” Read this article here.

More from President Obama, currently selling a lot of misinformation such as his Cap and Tax program and his green program:


 

Meanwhile, news from Ecuador. Looks like the confiscation of the Isaias family holdings is going to be heard in a Florida court. This is bad news for communist Correa who cannot send bolivarian militias to threaten the Court, as he does in Ecuador…. Read it here.

-Pedro Camargo for ECrisis