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Today local radio America has spread a version that states that the US embassy in Tegucigalpa would host the paralell govt. of Manuel Zelaya. The version says that the ambassador Hugo Llorenz has ready 6 limousines ready to transport the members of Zelaya's cabinet to the embassy. Some of his top officials are wanted by honduran justice.

Moammar Gadhafi and Hugo Chavez urged nearly 30 leaders from throughout Africa and South America on Saturday to form a strong intercontinental alliance to make the two regions a new global power. Gadhafi proposed a defense alliance of South American and African nations, calling it "a NATO of the South" -- an idea Chavez has raised with other allies in the past. Seven South American leaders signed an agreement to create a regional development bank with $20 billion in startup capital, and Chavez offered to help create a "South-South bank" with African countries in the future. The two-day meeting that...

The leaders of Libya and Venezuela have called on Africa and South America to create a new alliance to counter Western dominance. They were speaking at the second South America-Africa (ASA) summit held in the Venezuelan island of Margarita, attended by nearly 30 leaders. Venezuela's Hugo Chavez called on the two continents to unite to secure prosperity for future generations. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi said he was in favour of a military-style pact. The summit agenda covers hunger in Africa, the global economic crisis, energy, and the creation of a joint investment fund between Africa and South America. The leaders agreed...

Zelaya seeks to install parallel government in Honduras The deposed President Manuel Zelaya arrived Monday morning at the Embassy of Brazil, where he is a refugee with followers. 26.09.09 - Updated: 26.09.09 08:56 pm - Writing: redaccion@elheraldo.hn Tegucigalpa. , Honduras . The ousted president Manuel Zelaya Rosales proposes to install a parallel government in Honduras with the support of some countries, especially those serving the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). This version is known in different political and governmental sectors of the country, El Heraldo said political analyst Raul Pineda Alvarado, who also added that the parallel government will...

Love at First Sight Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (R) greets Venezualan President Hugo Chavez in Tehran July 29, 2006. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN) Last November, MataHarley mentioned about how Russia was planning to help Hugo Chavez build a nuclear energy program. Of course, like the typical power-hungry dictator that he is, all he claims to want is to acquire nuclear power for clean energy and peaceful medical purposes. At this point, they are still in the planning stages, with Chavez explaining, "not to worry, folks": "I say it before the world: Venezuela is going to start the process of developing nuclear...

With Despots and Dictators Aglow President Obama took apologizing for the United States to a new low this week. In an unprecedented move for a U.S. president (and what many assert is unconstitutional), Obama headed this month’s UN Security Council in New York City. At the helm, Obama apologized for American exceptionalism to despots and second-rate dictators. Obamapology’s words demonstrate his lack of allegiance to the U.S. as he diminished America’s role and history of helping other countries. He apologized for the U.S.’s previously “acting alone without regard for other nations,” and declared, “America’s been too selective in its promotion...

Politics: In yet another vote against transparency, the Senate killed an amendment imposing legislative oversight on unconfirmed White House officials. Shouldn't we know who they are and what they're doing? Green czar Van Jones is gone, forced to leave the administration after Fox News and the conservative blogosphere revealed his past as a self-avowed communist. Jones had issues that some argue should have been discussed in confirmation hearings that never occurred before he assumed his position. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, would have liked to have learned of Jones' communist links and more before this man, who believes that white America...

. Venezuela – Iran is helping to detect uranium deposits in Venezuela and initial evaluations suggest reserves are significant, President Hugo Chavez's government said Friday. Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz said Iran has been assisting Venezuela with geophysical survey flights and geochemical analysis of the deposits, and that evaluations "indicate the existence of uranium in western parts of the country and in Santa Elena de Uairen," in southeastern Bolivar state. "We could have important reserves of uranium," Sanz told reporters upon arrival on Venezuela's Margarita Island for a weekend Africa-South America summit. He added that efforts to certify the reserves could...

Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and Bolivian president Evo Morales were both in the house Wednesday evening for the New York Film Festival pre-fest screening of Oliver Stone's "South of the Border." As red beret-wearing soldiers flanked the doorway to Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater, the aud was quiet until Chavez broke the silence with a shoutout to one of his assembled supporters. "Hey, Danny Glover!" said the controversial president of Venezuela.

"It was a deceit operation" H. Chavez: Former military coupist once again acknowledged his interference in matters of Honduras to ensure that he helped Zelaya to enter the country covertly. 24.09.09 - Updated: 24.09.09 11:40 pm - Writing: redaccion@elheraldo.hn Tegucigalpa, Honduras . Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, "orchestrated" the return to Honduras of Manuel Zelaya Rosales clandestinely. He was who provided all the logistics that would enter the capital city and then take refuge in the Brazilian embassy. Brazilian government officials have accused Chavez of being the mastermind of the plan, according to public on the front page the newspaper O...

...by refusing to accept an international mediator's plan...Mr. Micheletti -- egged on by a handful of allies in Washington -- gave the Chavez camp an opening. The result was this week's Venezuelan-engineered secret return by Zelaya to the country and his appearance in the Brazilian Embassy, from where he has sought to foment the populist revolution that he has wanted all along. Fortunately, he is failing miserably so far...Tegucigalpa was getting back to normal Thursday, and Zelaya was reduced to making hysterical accusations about being bombarded with radiation and toxic gases by "Israeli mercenaries." Such behavior ought to deter any...

(English-language translation) Sao Paulo - High-level officials with the Brazilian government are accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of "orchestrating" the plan for the return of deposed Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya, who is sheltered at the Brazilian Embassy, the local press reports. Advisors to Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Foreign Ministry interviewed by Sao Paulo newspaper O Estado pointed out that the "infrastructure, the logistics, and the advice to specifically seek the Brazilian Embassy" for Zelaya's clandestine return were prepared by Chávez. Zelaya's unexpected bursting into Brazil's diplomatic legation has caused an unprecedented and hard-to-resolve conflict, since...

VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez said he no longer detected devil's "sulfur" in the United States, but the smell of "hope". The Latin American strongman famously called then-president George W Bush the "devil" during the annual meeting of the United Nations in 2006 and said that Mr Bush left the UN podium stinking of sulfur. But in his speech this year, Mr Chavez went out of his way to embrace President Barack Obama, even urging him to follow Venezuelan-style socialism. "Yesterday he spoke here and it no longer smells of sulfur. It smells of something better: hope," Mr Chavez said. "Obama,...

U.N. 'doesn't smell of sulfur anymore,' says Chavezupdated 4 hours, 22 minutes ago UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Drawing on 2006 remarks in which he compared former U.S. President George Bush to the devil, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, speaking at the United Nations Thursday, said, "It doesn't smell like sulfur anymore." Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez spoke highly of President Obama at the United Nations on Thursday. In a rambling speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Chavez spoke highly of current President Obama, saying he is an "intelligent man" and comparing him to President John F. Kennedy. "I hope God will protect...

Dismissal was legal, says U.S. report "In short, one of the foundations of the global community is to respect international laws," Schock said in a statement. 24.09.09 - Updated: 24.09.09 01:44 pm - AP: redaccion@elheraldo.hn RATE * Currently 2 / 5 Stars. * 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 Current Rating: 2 votes: 3 79 comments Print Send Washington, United States . A study by the Library of Congress found that the dismissal of President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras was legal and in full accordance with the Constitution. The report, released by Rep. Aaron Schock, however, also...

Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, used the opening minutes of his speech at the United Nations on Thursday afternoon to make a plug perhaps even more powerful than those from Oprah Winfrey. He said the previous night he had watched a film by director Oliver Stone, called "South of the Border." The film includes various leaders from the region, and depicts some of the changes underway, he said. "I am taking advantage of this opportunity to tell you that south of the border there is a revolution under way," he said. "The world must come see this and take...

Honduras' de facto government has lifted a nationwide curfew, although security forces are continuing to lay siege to a building where the ousted president is sheltering. The curfew was dropped on Thursday, three days after authorities imposed wide-ranging restrictions on movement in the wake of Manuel Zelaya's return to Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. Zelaya has been holed-up at the Brazilian embassy since Monday, after he returned to his home country in defiance of threats by the military-backed interim government to arrest him... The United Nations has suspended electoral assistance worth about $1.3m to Honduras, saying that conditions in the country...

Venezuelan pres Hugo Chavez speaks at the UN. Blames the Pentagon for the "Coup" in Honduras, and tells the story of the "tortures" suffered b Zelaya. Says that there is a controversy among the Pentagon and the State dept. He says that the Pentagon doesn't want Obama and that is behind the "Coup"

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Former President Carter has contacted the de facto president of Honduras to urge a resolution to the crisis in the Central American country. "President Carter has been in touch with the Honduran government to express his concern about the current situation," spokeswoman Deanna Congileo said via e-mail Thursday... De facto President Roberto Micheletti said Carter had called late Wednesday. Micheletti said he told the former U.S. president he was "willing to enter into dialogue, anywhere and at any time, to try to find a resolution to the present situation." But he insisted that deposed Honduran President Jose...

Czechs are used to betrayal by their Western allies. It was at Munich in 1938 that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sealed their doom in exchange for a piece of paper promising "peace in our time." The fact that this further gutting of missile defense came on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland on Sept. 17, 1939, is an eerie coincidence. "Just after midnight I was informed in a telephone call by President Barack Obama that (his) administration had decided to pull out from the planned missile defense shield installations" in the Czech Republic and Poland, the...

Pink Flamingo confidant and friend Sally Vee has very good friends in Honduras. She received the following email this afternoon from her friend Fernando who lives in Honduras. “There is a rumor going on that they want the UN to send peace keeping troops to Honduras. It is going to be a bloodbath. The people of Honduras will rather die that have that guy back in power. Honduras is not Haiti. They will fight any foreign army…no matter what. Please let anyone know about this.�

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Although only a couple of miles from each other, the two men who claim to be the president of Honduras passed another day without meeting on Wednesday as residents of this capital city used a break in a curfew to store up supplies and hunker down for what could be an extended political standoff. “We need to sit down face to face,” Manuel Zelaya, the deposed leader, said in a telephone interview from the Brazilian Embassy, where he has been holed up since slipping back into the country from exile on Monday. He complained of harassment of...

God. "I try to be close to God at all times and the Constitution protects us," added the president in relation to international pressure for his government. Alone. "We are alone but survival," said this afternoon President Roberto Micheletti in an interview on CNN. Ban Ki-moon. "The secretary general has decided to suspend the technical assistance currently provided by the Organization to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal of Honduras," said a statement issued Wednesday. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, ruled Wednesday that the conditions for organizing elections in Honduras are not united and announced the withdrawal of electoral assistance. "We...

BRASILIA - Brazil may not have invited ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya to take refuge in its embassy there, but opening its door to him is a high-risk bet that could harm its regional leadership ambitions. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's decision to grant Zelaya refuge at short notice at its embassy in Tegucigalpa has thrust Brazil to the center of the crisis, giving it a chance to take a high-profile role in efforts to end the stand-off. The risk, though, is that Brazil gets drawn into a messy power dispute in the Central American nation that is far...

TEGUCIGALPA -- Brazil wants an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss the situation at its embassy in Honduras, where the ousted Honduran president has been holed up since returning to his country, the official Brazilian news agency reported. The Honduran government isolated the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa by cutting water, power and phone lines to the building, U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly confirmed...Brazil's foreign minister, Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim, called the action a "very serious" move that violated international law. Police said that utilities were turned off in the area surrounding the embassy to discourage looting after supporters...

In the local news program "Hoy Mismo" aired at channel 3, has been read a letter from the US embassy in Tegucigalpa asking the Brazilian embassy to hand Zelaya to them for "more protection".

Honduras' de facto ruler does not plan to confront Brazil, but says the country's ousted president can stay at the embassy for "5 to 10 years," Reuters reported Tuesday. Deposed President Manuel Zelaya's surprise return to Honduras to reclaim his seat had him holed up in the Brazilian Embassy Tuesday, saying he feared for his life as heavily armed soldiers marched outside and helicopters buzzed overhead. Water, electricity and phone lines had been cut, and neighboring buildings taken over by the military.... Zelaya, forced out of his country at gunpoint, triumphantly popped up in the capital on Monday...Interim President Roberto...

Honduran security forces have broken up demonstrations outside the Brazilian embassy where deposed President Manuel Zelaya has taken refuge.Witnesses say police used tear gas to disperse thousands of Zelaya supporters Tuesday. The demonstrators spent the night outside the embassy, despite a nationwide curfew the interim government put in place after Mr. Zelaya's surprise return. The curfew was initially scheduled to expire early Tuesday morning, but will now last until Tuesday evening. Mr. Zelaya stunned the caretaker government when he appeared on the balcony of the Brazilian embassy in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa, Monday. In a television interview, Mr. Zelaya described...

My country is in an unusual position this week. Former president Manuel Zelaya has surreptitiously returned to Honduras, still claiming to be the country's legitimate leader, despite the fact that a constitutional succession took place on June 28. Amid all of the claims that are likely to be made in coming days, the former president will not mention that the people of Honduras have moved on since the events of that day or that our citizens are looking forward to free, fair and transparent elections on Nov. 29. The international community has wrongfully condemned the events of June 28 and...

When a tyrannical regime dies, you can see the symptoms in the little things. Late Friday afternoon, after millions (yes, millions–this according to Le Monde, France 2, and L’Express, with the BBC saying that the demonstrations were bigger than those at the time of the Revolution) of Greens mobbed the streets and squares of more than thirty towns and cities to call for the end of the regime, there was a soccer game in Azadi Stadium in Tehran. It holds about a hundred thousand fans, and it was full of men wearing green and carrying green balloons. When state-run tv...

The de fact president of Honduras, Roberto Michelleti, denied stories indicating that deposed president Manuel Zelaya is on Honduran territory. In declarations to a local newspaper, Micheletti said that Zelaya, "is tranquilly sitting en a hotel in Nicaragua" and judged the story to be a rumor that he called an example of "journalistic terrorism" by two journalists who are sympathetic to to Zelaya. (Must be talking about Reuters!) The original, and the rest: El presidente de facto de Honduras, Roberto Michelleti negó las versiones que señalan que el presidente depuesto, Manuel Zelaya, se encuentre en territorio hondureño. En declaraciones a...

Sean Penn, Danny Glover and Kevin Spacey have met privately with him. Oliver Stone is making a movie putting him in a positive light. From Hollywood’s love of him, you’d expect Hugo Chavez to be a courageous human rights activist, but he’s an anti-American extremist who received Iran’s highest national medal from Ahmadinejad in July 2006, where he said “We have to save humankind and put an end to the U.S. empire." And now he’s announced his intentions to begin a nuclear program with Russian assistance. Venezuela is a critical part of Iran’s efforts to build an alliance of rogue...

SNIPPET: "Most importantly, Chavez has friends - powerful friends -- around the world who are assisting him in his goal of establishing communism as the dominant force in the world. Both Russia and China are assisting Chavez in spreading the message that the United States is "the most savage, cruel, and murderous empire that has existed in the history of the world," and Chavez's solution: 21st Century Socialism." SNIPPET: "The Moscow elite are not only supporting Chavez the dictator with weapons, but also Chavez the Marxist revolutionary with a high profile platform for his revolutionary rhetoric. In early September 2009...

The United States knew about an abortive coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002, and may even have taken part, former US president Jimmy Carter has told a Colombian newspaper.

The United States knew about an abortive coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 2002, and may even have taken part, former US president Jimmy Carter has told a Colombian newspaper. "I think there is no doubt that in 2002, the United States had at the very least full knowledge about the coup, and could even have been directly involved," Carter said in an interview with El Tiempo published Sunday. The former US leader said it is understandable that Chavez continues to blame the United States for the failed overthrow attempt. The Venezuelan president, considered a bulwark of leftism in...

With the federal treasury facing insolvency what industry do we help next? Well lets see, how about the public relations arm of the Democratic party, the newspaper industry. That way when our Taxes go even higher they can tell us that it is a great idea. Today the President said that he would be happy to look at the Senate proposal allowing papers to restructure as non-profit organizations. Non-Profit may describe a newspaper's balance sheet, but it should not describe its tax status, unless of course, if Senator Benjamin Cardin( D-Md.) gets his way. The Senator introduced a bill on...

As the Obama administration cuddles up to Moscow and Caracas, America's enemies in the those cities plot the destruction of the West. Economic decline is the least of the West's worries. Neo-Marxist world domination is the real name of the game. Read this excellent and completely accurate article from Toby Westerman Venezuela’s Marxist president-dictator Hugo Chavez addressed an influential university in Moscow stating that America’s influence in the world is “dying,” and will be replaced in “the next decades” by a “multi-polar” world in which Russia plays a leading role. Chavez wants to “accelerate” the process, a sentiment which receives...

CARACAS, Venezuela -- President Hugo Chavez's government is preparing to nationalize the nation's largest coffee producers, claiming the companies have refused to comply with federal price controls. Commerce Minister Eduardo Saman said he is recommending the nationalization of coffee plants belonging to Caracas-based companies Fama de America and Cafe Madrid. He did not say when the nationalizations could take place But Chavez told journalists that his government has not made a final decision on the nationalization of the plants. "If they give me an excuse, I'll nationalize them," he said. Saman said the measure had been encouraged by workers displeased...

Note: The following text is a quote: Wife of Gang Leader Pleads Guilty to Narcotics Charges On the day her trial was to begin in U.S. District Court in Lubbock, Texas, Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (ALKQN) member Marie Chavez, aka "Shorty," the wife of an alleged ALKQN leader Jose Nava, aka "Chino," pleaded guilty to a superseding indictment charging her and 16 co-defendants with various offenses related to alleged narcotics and weapons trafficking and violent activities. Specifically, Chavez, 28, of Lubbock, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute five kilograms...

We might have known that Hugo Chavez would become the American Left’s favorite dictator when in 2006 he traveled to the U.N. and branded President Bush “the devil.” “The devil came here yesterday,” Chavez told the world body during its annual meeting in Manhattan, “And it smells of sulfur still today.” Liberals have been smitten with the Venezuelan autocrat ever since. Sure, some of them protested. “You don't come into my country; you don't come into my congressional district, and you don't condemn my president!” Rep. Charles Rangel scolded. But the epithet was really no worse than those liberals themselves...

Strategic Defense: With Iran on the verge of a deliverable nuke, the administration tells our allies in the dead of night that we will scuttle missile defense plans in Eastern Europe to please the Russians.Czechs are used to betrayal by their Western allies. It was at Munich in 1938 that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sealed their doom in exchange for a piece of paper promising "peace in our time." The fact that this further gutting of missile defense came on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland on Sept. 17, 1939, is an eerie coincidence. "Just after...

Venezuela's Marxist president-dictator Hugo Chavez addressed an influential university in Moscow stating that America's influence in the world is "dying," and will be replaced in "the next decades" by a "multi-polar" world in which Russia plays a leading role. Chavez wants to "accelerate" the process, a sentiment which receives support from the Moscow elite. During his Sept. 9-10 2009 visit,Chavez received an enthusiastic reception from about 1,000 students at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba Peoples Friendship University, an institution founded in 1960 as a KGB training ground for communist revolutionaries and pro-Soviet activists. The university's namesake was a prime minister of the...

THE mountains and jungles of South America are not ideal terrain for tank warfare. So it is hard to envisage what role Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, has in mind for the dozens of Russian tanks on his latest military shopping list. The strategic purpose of a recent tour that took him to some of the world’s least salubrious regimes is, however, easier to discern... Venezuela’s increasingly autocratic leader returned on Friday from a trip that took him to Libya, Iran, Algeria, Syria, Turkmenistan, Belarus and Russia... Apart from discussing weapons and oil with the Russians, he also courted condemnation by...

President Micheletti says the United States would take him out of only with an "invasion" "Interference make us stronger and more determined to make decisions," he said. 15.09.09 - Updated: 15.09.09 07:06 pm - AFP: redaccion@elheraldo.hn Tegucigalpa, Honduras . President Roberto Micheletti, said Tuesday that only an "invasion" the U.S. could remove him from power, to minimize pressure from Washington to be restored to power the deposed President Manuel Zelaya. Micheletti told reporters that the U.S. would be out of power "only come here to invade us" and that would be "the only pressure" on his regime. "He who seeks...

Alliance of Leftist and Islamist LeadersFalse Friends Hatred of the USA is uniting leftist and Islamist leaders. Anti-Semitic propaganda and conspiracy theories are part of the way they see the world says Wolf-Dieter Vogel in his essay | Bild: Here's looking at you, kid: Hugo Chavez's support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has caused some uncertainty in leftist circles | The stoning of adulteresses; torture carried out in the name of Allah – is this the "better world" that Hugo Chavez dreams of? The alleged election victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is, in any case, in the opinion of the Venezuelan leader, "very...

MADRID (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Spain's King Juan Carlos appeared to have put their dramatic public spat of 2007 well behind them when they met on Friday, even sharing a joke about the monarch's recently grown beard. Chavez said to the king: "You've grown a beard like Fidel," referring to former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, to which the king replied: "I'm changing my look."

The government of Andorra has frozen “billions of dollars” in bank accounts linked to Iran, Venezuela, and a variety of terrorist groups, according to the daily Diairi d’Andorra, which publishes in Catalan. The Andorran move, announced on Thursday, was carried out in conjunction with a top secret U.S. Treasury investigation in Miami involving money laundered through Venezuelan banks that was transferred to corresponding banks in the United States. From Miami, the funds were then wired to accounts in Andorra that were controlled by Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, members of his family and his regime. But the funds were also used...

WASHINGTON -- New York County District Attorney Robert Morgenthau left his home turf and came to the nation's capital on Tuesday to sound the alarm about a "blossoming relationship" between Iran and Venezuela. Comparing the situation to the lead up to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Morgenthau warned of growing threats--involving missiles, nuclear ventures and terrorist training--that Iran and Venezuela are now cultivating, together, "in our backyard." "Axis of unity" is the label that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez have themselves chosen for their alliance. The rise of this partnership, according to Morgenthau, dates from Ahmadinejad's...

CARACAS — Amid rising tensions with neighboring Colombia, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced late Friday that his country would soon take delivery of Russian-made missiles with a range of 300 kilometers (185 miles). "We have signed some agreements with Russia. Soon we will begin receiving some missiles," Chavez said during a meeting with supporters in front of the presidential palace. He underscored the reliability of the Russian weaponry, but stressed that his country had "no plans to attack anybody." But the announcement came amid rising tension between Caracas and Bogota over Colombia's decision to allow the United States access to...

In the summer of 1996, California’s Maxine Waters publicly accused the United States government of introducing crack cocaine into mostly black South Central L.A. She said the government was complicit in destroying the inner city. Thirteen years later, at the hands of the above, we are witnessing the U.S. actually abetting a drug dealer, Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez wanted to expand membership in his “Friends of Hugo” club and needed money to retain power. Oil prices were down but cocaine trafficking could fill the gap. It was becoming difficult to export drugs to the US from Venezuela, Cuba, etc., so...