Honduran ex-president: US was behind my overthrow

Google AP ^ | June 28, 2010 | Freddy Cuevas

[La Lydia]

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya accused the United States of being behind the 2009 coup that ousted him, in a letter released Monday on the first anniversary of his ouster. Zelaya, who now lives in the Dominican Republic, has given conflicting accounts on what role the United States allegedly played in the coup, in which Honduran soldiers hustled him out of the country on June 28, 2009.<> He has alternately praised the policy of the U.S. government on the issue, and criticized Washington for not pressing harder for his reinstatement. But Monday's letter said flatly: "What we suspected at the beginning has now been confirmed. The United States was behind the coup...."

Zelaya's letter did not offer any specifics...He cited what he called "the public support the United States wound up giving to the coup."

The United States refused to recognize the government of interim president Roberto Micheletti, froze U.S. aid to the regime and pressured Honduras to allow Zelaya to return to office....Zelaya suggested that his administration's ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...may have played a role in U.S. hostility to him.

It is not the first time that Zelaya — who maintained contact with U.S. officials during the coup and even traveled to the United States in a bid to be reinstated — has changed his view on the U.S. role. In September, when the United States cut off all aid to the interim government that replaced him, Zelaya said "it is gratifying that the United States has taken a strong position against the coup."

But in a letter published June 11, he claimed that members of his own Liberal Party "conspired with the oligarchy and the Pentagon to remove me from the political scene."...

[La Lydia]

Still clueless. That is, AP is still clueless, and so is Zelaya.

[La Lydia]

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[cripplecreek]

Whoever decided that they should interview him needs a kick in the ass.

[GeronL]

Why would the media give these idiots any credence?

[don-o]

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[don-o]

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[TrueKnightGalahad]

Sheesh...this guy could be almost as stupid as Obama. Almost.

As stupid as Obama. Now there's a phrase that should be in common currency.

[mylife]

Good Lord! Obama did everything to kiss Zelayas butt!

[Principled]

just wierd - altogether wierd.

when i first read the headline, i thought the article was going to be about the US supporting Zelaya’s “coup”.

thx for the ping

[eclecticEel]

If only I could believe him, but sadly no; we were completely useless during the whole incident.

[VeniVidiVici]

The United States refused to recognize the government of interim president Roberto Micheletti, froze U.S. aid to the regime and pressured Honduras to allow Zelaya to return to office....Zelaya suggested that his administration's ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez...may have played a role in U.S. hostility to him.

I wonder if the AP has the slightest clue of how stupid this statement sounds.

[tflabo]

Seems I remember the Bama and Hellary siding with Chavez and ilk and going to bat for Zee Liar and meddling in the Honduran process. We salute Honduras for holding their ground and getting rid of this power grabber Zee Liar-—scumsucker got what he deserves!

[saganite]

It wasn’t a coup, he wasn’t overthrown and the US actually tried to help the thug seize power. Douche bag.

[skully]

Honduran ex-president: US was behind my overthrow

He wasn’t overthrown. He was removed from office as per the Honduran Constitution. His removal had the sanction of their highest court.

[tflabo]

Obama Tried To Prevent Zelaya ‘Coup’. (Zelaya ignored Law)

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-tried-to-prevent-zelaya-coup

[dtrpscout]

In observing Mel’s rise as a wannabe Chavez, and Mel’s subsequent removal by legal constitutional due process, Obama got a glimpse of his own future, and I don’t think Obama’s yet regained his balance.

[TigersEye]

I don’t think they’re clueless. I think they know very well that they are lying through their teeth. Especially the AP. Zelaya may just be nuts enough to believe what he’s saying.

[La Lydia]

The writer and the editor are complete idiots, and my dog has a longer, more accurate memory. But no, I don’t think they have a clue how stupid it sounds, nor how ignorant and divorced from reality they are.

[La Lydia]

The reason I am leaning toward clueless is that the reporter who wrote this story didn’t do any of the stories when it was all going on. It sounds to me like he wrote it from earlier, equally ignorant, AP file stories. And AP changes editors like underwear.

[Oceander]

Hee hee! What a rube! So much for the "love" between Obuttocks and his favorite heroes in Latin America! First Hugo disses him, and now Mannie's dissing him. Seems to fit in with a larger pattern - everyone overseas who said they loved Obuttocks when he was first elected apparently meant that they loved what a loser he was clearly going to be.

I mean c'mon, they were best buds not too long ago:


Ah well, stupid is as stupid does (and that cuts both ways here).