[HNA] FW: [Lasolidarity] Honduran Businessman killed after revealing U.S. role in coup

[Brian O'Connell]

Great protest on SAT....Sergio's speech in particular was awesome!
-brian

Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:19:50 -0400
From: toml at quixote.org
To: lasolidarity at lists.mayfirst.org
Subject: [Lasolidarity] Honduran Businessman killed after revealing U.S.	role in coup








Coup planned by
Honduran
businessmen in an Arab Emirate 
Saturday
July 10, 2010 12:15 Red Morazánica de Información 
“They could kill me for
this”.
Tegucigalpa. 20
June 2010.
 The murdered ex-minister of the deposed President Manuel Zelaya,
Roland
Valenzuela announced in the program “San Pedro Sula by Night” that the
coup in
Honduras was planned by a group of six Honduran businessmen who got
together to
go to a business fair in Dubai, one of the seven Arab Emirates. 
They met in the
bar of a
hotel and decided that Zelaya had to go, “now we can’t tolerate him any
longer”
just as he was beginning to promote the Fourth Option (plebiscite)
which was a
threat to them, as Zelaya was seeking a Constituent Assembly to make
the
economic and social measures of his government into law, with the aim
of
protecting them.
The
‘manageress’, the
coordinator of the Coup, Jacqueline Sandoval, an honours graduate from
West
Point, further educated in The Rangers of the US, left a folder of
documents in
the Hotel Plaza San Martin, that contained various drafts with precise
details
of how the coup should be carried out. 
The folder was
handed over
by “a humble citizen who is a hero, to me”, said Valenzuela, in a two
hour long
copied recording of the radio program that circulated on the internet.
They payed four
million
dollars to a ‘powerful lobbyist”, one who promotes political proposals,
called
Smith, to create disinformation about Zelaya with accusations in the
Pentagon, the
CIA, and the FBI to prejudice him in the eyes of the US. Smith and his
associates contacted the coordinator of the Coup. 
Valenzuela
remarked that
these groups who had sworn to kill Zelaya would be listening to him,
and would
say, “how does this corn munching son of a bitch know so much. I don’t
know if
they are going kill me the moment I step outside the radio station” he
said,
laughing.
The Ambassador
Hugo
Llorens and the United States. 
Among other
documents is
the draft of the decree for the removal of Zelaya from office,
including the
number of the Act, dated 28th of June 2009, signed by Ricardo
Rodriguez, Jose
Toribio Aguilera, Rolando Dubon Bueso, Rigoberto Chang Castillo and
Gabo
Alfredo Jalil Mejia; addressed to Hugo Llorens, telling him that it
needed a
few corrections but that they ‘needed his opinion’.
“What is
Ambassador
Llorens doing meddling in these matters … adding his opinions to a
draft that
is no less than a draft for the removal of President Zelaya from power.
I’ve
always found it curious, this great affection that Llorens had for
Zelaya, whom
subsequently he ‘didn’t want’ Valenzuela speculated. 
He accused the
United
State: “The coup wasn’t overturned because they betrayed us. Zelaya was
never
restored because the United States assured Micheletti “hang in, hang
it, stay
there, because we aren’t going to get rid of you” he stated.
“Hillary Clinton
swore to
Zelaya that they were going to restore him”, but at the same time they
handed
over control of the situation to Oscar Arias, whom Valenzuela called “
a
servant to the gringos”.
There is also a
message to
the International Community saying that “the rule of law was
persistently
broken” by Zelaya “who assumed, de facto, supremacy over all the powers
of the
State”. 
Valenzuela said
that in
the paper there was ‘a little list’ of the people who were at this
meeting, and
a collection of ‘unproven accusations’ against Zelaya, with
observations and
corrections that were viewed as necessary for the anticipated plan.
Jacqueline
Sandoval set up the exercise and what each person involved should say
or do.
“Call Marcia
Villeda to
get these documents” was one of the annotations read by Valenzuela. She
‘faked
the signature’ of an alleged resignation by Zelaya, and afterwards
‘would
declare her innocence’ in a trial he declared. 
When Zelaya
decides to
implement the Fourth Option the businessmen have the meeting in Dubai
and
argued that he wanted a Constituent Assembly to make lowering the price
of fuel
a law. This, to Valenzuela would have been the main motive.
Convincing the
Armed
Forces of Honduras (FAH).
The conspirators
approached the FAH, that was the last thing shielding President Zelaya,
as
hitherto they had ‘remained loyal to the President’, he explained. 
Romeo Vasquez
Velasquez at
this time was in the Christopher Columbus Hotel in Trujillo “looking
like a
little boy running from one side to another showing the plans for the
Fourth
Option to the President” Valenzuela observed. “Suddenly he changed his
position
radically”, he added.
The order that
appears in
the documents on May 20 advises the Public Minister that he must appear
to
request a demand and record that President Zelaya be put on trial. 
The coup
plotters act
divisively.
The only ‘lying
excuse’
they had for kidnapping the President was the Fourth Option. One group
of coup
plotters said that ‘there was no reason to touch the President – they
still
didn’t have due process, they hadn’t done everything that needed to be
done,
things hadn’t been done as planned, we’re going to go back to a coup”,
one
group demanded from the other. 


Micheletti
persisted and
“convinced the FAH with a wicked manoeuvre”.  Those involved “are the
ones
who give the orders here”.  Rafael Ferrari, an influential landowner
became ill and left for the US, but left instructions to Renato Alvarez
and
Edgardo Melgar [journalists], to do a hatchet job on Mel, and follow
the
instructions of Billy Joya”.
He said that
“the coup
plotters didn’t follow the plot that the hawks advocated, the procedure
that
the US Ambassador accepted.” Carlos Flores, another coup plotter,
following the
suggestion of the US, was the first to take the side of President
Zelaya and
his wife Xiomara and tell him that he “didn’t have anything to do with
the coup”. 
According to
Valenzuela
those who were putting the screws on to make the coup were a “garbage
faction,
a bunch coming up from the bottom desperate to get its share of power”
“They’ll
probably have me
killed for this”, Roland Valenzuela said then.
 He
asserted that there is
a group of assassins hired to murder Zelaya. The object of the coup
“was to
kill him, to pretend that the Presidential guard resisted, that there
be a
shoot out and one of the shots would kill him. But one guy objected”;
when the elite
group came to take the President he sent 500 soldiers so that there
would be
600 witnesses on hand to see what happened”.
Valenzuela
mentioned in
the interview that he didn’t come out and march with the Resistance
because he
was afraid that he could be killed in the street because he had
“personal
reasons” to support the return and reinstatement of Zelaya. 
With the
Constituent
Assembly Zelaya was trying to make achievements in social progress, law.
Valenzuela
mentions seven
measures of the Zelaya government that created the discontent and would
cause
various powerful groups to unite against him. 
Among others,
there was
the order to lower the index of the price of basic necessities,
regulation by
the DEI (Taxation Office) of fast food franchises that bought produce
wholesale
and retailed them in other outlets.
The measures to
adjust
fuel prices with Petro-Caribe are what provoked the rebellion of the
transnationals. He [Valenzuela] divulged that one of the importers said
to the
President: “If I stopped fuel imports, President, you wouldn’t last 24
hours in
your job”.  Valenzuela said that the businessman gave him a shove, and
insulted them. 
Zelaya had come
to the
decision that the achievements of his government would only be safe if
they
were made law, and to that a Constituent Assembly was necessary. This
is what
led him to call a plebiscite, known as the Fourth Option, since he
claimed “We
don’t have any power in the Congress. The Court, the National Audit
Office ‘are
owned”.
The role of the
Truth and
Reconciliation Commission. 
The ‘Commission
of Lies”
tries to say that Zelaya provoked the coup, Valenzuela concluded.
Roland
Valenzuela, close
confidant and friend of Zelaya, was shot and killed by a bullet in the
back by
another businessman, Carlos Yacaman Meza in the bar of a hotel on June
16 2010.
The Police initial hid the name of the killer so as “not to muddy the
investigation”.  Translated by Fry
Warwick 
http://www.resistenciahonduras.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=547:coup-planned-by-honduran-businessmen-in-an-arab-emirate&catid=101:news&Itemid=349 		 	   		  
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