Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
and a professor of History at NYU, has spent the last few days in Honduras and reports on what looks in some ways like a return to Latin America’s dirty wars of the 1980s. As ousted leader Manuel Zelaya and his supporters camp out near the border in Nicaragua, the military has used tear gas to disperse protesters and, according to international observer missions, there have been at least eight deaths and disappearances.
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Greg Grandin: Echoes of the 80s In Honduras
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US Escalates[anticommunist] War Build-up Against Latin American Revolution[like the one waged against Russia from 1917 to 1938]
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July 27th 2009, by Federico Fuentes – Green Left Weekly
The US State Department and the coup regime in Honduras have publicly stated what many of us already knew: the June 28 military coup was not just directed against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, but also Venezuela and the unfolding Latin American revolution.
On July 20, US state department spokesperson Phillip Crowley said he hoped Zelaya now understood that in “.
choosing a model government and a model leader for countries of the region to follow”, the US believes “the current leadership in Venezuela would not be a particular model”
“If that is the lesson that President Zelaya has learned from this episode, that would be a good lesson.”
The same day, vice foreign minister of the Honduran coup regime, Marta Alvarado, said: “Honduras is playing a very important role in the sense that the continuity or otherwise of the avalanche of the ALBA [Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our Americas] countries depends on Honduras, and whether the people who are under the pressure of the ALBA countries wake up.”[to capitalism???]
ALBA, an initiative of the revolutionary Venezuelan and Cuban governments, unites nine Latin American and Caribbean countries into an anti-imperialist bloc that combines solidarity-based trade agreements with a coordinated political intervention into regional politics.
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By Neanderthal7 on July 28th, 2009 at 12:33 pm