Now, one year after the Honduran coup that ousted Honduran President Zelaya, Zelaya has come out saying that the U.S. was behind the coup. According to Zelaya:
His ouster was the result, the letter said, of adopting measures in 2006 that affected U.S. oil companies, and a plan to convert the U.S.-built Palmerola airbase into a civilian airport.
Another reason for his fall, according to Zelaya, was his rejection of the "recessionary policies of the IMF (International Monetary Fund)" in favor of subsidizing transportation and boosting wages.
Zelaya also claimed that Washington also didn't approve of Honduras' decision to join Venezuela's Petrocaribe initiative, under which Caribbean and Central American nations receive Venezuelan oil on generous terms.
The U.S., of course, denies it. That said, the U.S. is having a great time in post-Zelaya Honduras. Last week, a USDA press release described how the U.S. is promoting biotech in Honduras, which Zelaya's successor, President Lobo, supports. The press release tells how the U.S. donates excess U.S. agricultural commodities to a group in Honduras, which sells the commodities and uses the money to buy the inputs for industrial agriculture. Awesome. I must say that the only benefit of being flat broke is that I pay minimal taxes to the U.S. government to support this garbage. |
