http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292951/posts
Rich Man, Poor Plan (Venal hippie millionaire manipulated 2005 Honduras election)
Allen Andersson Made a Bundle, Then Made Things Happen -- for a While -- in Honduras
By Manuel Roig-Franzia Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Allen Andersson made a fortune. Three times.
Richer each time, and ever less interested in being rich.
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And then, there's one of his all-time favorite multimillion-dollar gambits, the time he played presidential kingmaker in Honduras . . . and won. Barely noticed outside Tegucigalpa, Andersson assumed a key -- many say decisive -- offstage role in the 2005 election of Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, the recently deposed president of Honduras.
... Andersson spoke for the first time about what he proudly describes as the "shenanigans" he orchestrated in the final days of the 2005 upset. It is a saga sprinkled with heaps of cash, private detectives, sting operations, attack ads, internecine squabbles and Andersson's epic grudge against Zelaya's wealthy, dashing opponent, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, whose last name means "wolf" in Spanish.
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By the time the ballots were counted, Andersson estimates he had spent $2 million trying to influence the outcome.
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Then came the hard part. Zelaya struggled as president, alienating his base by cultivating leftist allies, such as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia. With Honduras ever mired in poverty and crime, Zelaya tried to circumvent the nation's supreme court and pushed for a referendum on whether the constitution should be changed to allow him to serve a second term. He was ousted on June 28.
His American sponsor offered no sympathy. "The guy who won," Andersson says of Zelaya, "has been such a lazy, ineffective and clownish jerk that I almost regret it sometimes."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/13/AR2009071303275.html
