MORE DETAILS EMERGE: Obama Supported Ousted Honduran Thug Zelaya to Appease Chavez
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 6:36 AM
HOPE AND CHANGE.
The Obama Administration knew that ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was an anti-democratic anti-Semitic pig whose goal was to become ruler for life like his buddy Hugo Chavez. Team Obama decided to support him for the greater good of Latin American relations anyway. Barack Obama even cut off aid to Honduras in order to appease Marxist tyrant Hugo Chavez at the expense of the Honduran people.
Birds of a feather…
(Michael Ramirez)
The news that President Obama cut off aid to American ally Honduras did not make many headlines. Barack Obama openly sided with Marxists Raul Castro, Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega in punishing the government of Honduras.
Now, “thanks” to a leaked Wikileaks cable, we know that the Obama Administration knew that Zelaya was a dangerous leftist thug who could not be trusted. But, the Obama Administration sided with the wannabe tyrant anyway at the expense of the Honduran people.
Mary Anastasia O’Grady at The Wall Street Journal reported on this yesterday.
The Real Cuba Blog posted the important article:
Lots of hypotheses have been floated to explain why the Obama administration went to such extremes last year to try to force Honduras to reinstate deposed president Manuel Zelaya.
Now the release of two WikiLeaked cables from the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa strengthens one of those theories: that the U.S. knew Mr. Zelaya was a threat to democratic Honduras but had decided the country should tolerate his constitutional violations in the interest of realpolitik.
Practically speaking, Hugo Chávez was the man to please. After a decade in power, the president of Venezuela’s influence around the region was notable. George W. Bush had clashed with him. Barack Obama was out to prove that they could get along, as evidenced by the warm handshake at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain in April 2009.
Here is the complete cable from Ambassador Charles Ford to the Obama Administration before he was replaced by hardcore leftist Ambassador Hugo Llorens.
These points were included in Ford’s cable:
8. (S) There also exists a sinister Zelaya, surrounded by a few close advisors with ties to both Venezuela and Cuba and organized crime. Zelaya’s desperate defense of former telecommunications chief Marcelo Chimirri (widely believed to
be a murderer, rapist and thief) suggests that Chimirri holds much over Zelaya himself. Zelaya almost assuredly takes strong medication for a severe back problem and perhaps other drugs as well. His vehement attacks on the press have reportedly endangered journalists opposed to Zelaya’s policies. His style and tone in order to get his way is one of intimidation and bullying, threatening tax inspections and worse rather than substantive debate on issues. Zelaya’s inability to name a Vice Minister for Security lends credibility to those who suggest that narco traffickers have pressured him to name one of their own to this position. Due to his close association with persons believed to be involved with international organized crime, the motivation behind many of his policy decisions can certainly be questioned. I am unable to brief Zelaya on sensitive law enforcement and counter-narcotics actions due my concern that this would put the lives of U.S. officials in jeopardy.10. (S) I have found Zelaya,s real views of the United States hidden not too very deeply below the surface. In a word, he is not a friend. His views are shaped not by ideology or personal ambitions but by an old-fashioned nationalism where he holds the United States accountable for Honduras, current state of poverty and dependency. Zelaya,s public position against the Contra War and against the establishment of Joint Task Force Bravo at Soto Cano Air
…14. (S) Finally, Zelaya recently is fond of saying that we need to improve our communication, which I interpret to mean that we need to agree with him more often. A similar fate has befallen Cardinal Rodriguez who used to meet, as I do, regularly with the President. As the Cardinal in recent months has found himself in disagreement with Zelaya and is not participating publicly in his projects, Zelaya is working increasingly with pastors in the evangelical community. The Cardinal recently told me that he and the President hardly speak now as the President is unhappy that he doesn’t agree with the direction Zelaya is taking the country. For Zelaya, communicating means agreeing unquestionably with his point of view.
15. (S) GOING FORWARD: The last year and a half of the Zelaya Administration will be, in my view, extraordinarily difficult for our bilateral relationship. His pursuit of immunity from the numerous activities of organized crime carried out in his Administration will cause him to threaten the rule of law and institutional stability. Honduran institutions and friendly governments will need to be prepared to act privately and in public to help move Honduras
forward.
Clearly, the Obama Administration knew they were supporting a dangerous, far left, unpredictable, narcissistic and power-hungry wannabe tyrant.
They sided with him anyway at the expense of the Honduran people. Thank goodness the Obama Administration did not get their way.
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donabernathy commented:
Looks like the GubRmint is getting control of the Internet just in time
roflmao
larkin commented:
So, what else is new?
Hedgehog commented:
“a dangerous, far left, unpredictable, narcissistic and power-hungry wannabe tyrant”. Sound familiar?
StrangernFiction commented:
The Republicans will begin calling Obama what his is in 3, 2, 1
StrangernFiction commented:
what he is
Chisum commented:
Charity begins at home.
The US should be thinking about regime change in 2012.
kato commented:
I can understand the blacks, who voted on race and the promise of more handouts. I can understand the college-age dopes, who are young and idealistic (i.e. ignorant). But how could so many white adult Americans be fooled about Obama’s political agenda?
And the guy isn’t even his own man. He’s just a frontman for left-wing interests. They write the stuff that he read off the teleprompter. But his actions belie the inane platitudes.
Rachelle commented:
At heart Obama is a Marxist who hates America.
SenatorMark4 commented:
Proven again! If you don’t base your foreign policy on policies supporting freedom you get just this type of action…realpolitik. If a country doesn’t endorse our First Amendment and Article 1 section 2 (vote the tax man EVERY two years) they don’t believe in freedom. They shouldn’t get ANY TAX DOLLARS!
Dave J commented:
Thanks to the WSJ for looking into and reporting this. The MSM and Team 44 will quickly sweep this back under the rug.
xqqme commented:
‘When your purpose in office is announced as “fundamentally transforming the United States of America,” you have as much respect for those obsolescent institutions as a bull has for china in a showroom, a monkey for open heart surgery, a philanderer for his wife, or an adversary of our way of life for a bust of Churchill, and thereby give yourself full license to say “oops” without conscious, “sorry” without conviction, “never mind” without remorse, and “après moi le déluge” withoutt shame.’
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Callipygian1 commented:
This cable is dated 8/15/2008, meaning that the Obama Administration was fully aware of the contents of this cable and still took action against Honduran democracy by implementing sanctions. I’m not a judge, but I’d love to play one on TV; this smacks of criminally inept behavior.
Don Rodrigo commented:
The list of trangressions by the Obama administration is so long and detailed that it’s too easy for much of it to disappear down the memory hole. A counter-media assault that includes a blockbuster documentary and other means of compiling, consolidating and comprehensivley narrating the whole sorry, sordid story of this administration must be made to happen.
Keep in mind that, if the economy even has a mild rebound (thanks largely to a GOP House), it’s possible that voting-booth dolts of the ‘inependent” persuasion will put Obama back in office on the strength of “good” (read: mediocre) economic trends alone.
The general public must be given constant and blatant and hard-to-avoid reminders of the mendacity, corruption, and anti-American malice of this administration — especially throughout 2012.
It would also be immensely helpful if indictments are handed out by the bucketfull for stolen “stimulus” money and other examples of federal/activist and federal/big corporation collusions. There is nothing wrong with “demonizing” this bunch in order to take our country back.