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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Celso Castro
[mailto:celcas2000@gmail.com<span class=GramE>] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent</span></b></span><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>:</span></b> </span></font><st1:date Month="10" Day="8"
Year="2009"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Tahoma'>Thursday, October 08, 2009</span></font></st1:date><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> </span></font><st1:time
Hour="16" Minute="54"><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'>4:54 PM</span></font></st1:time><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
hondurasusaresistencia@yahoo.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> FW: NYTimes: Leader
Ousted, </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Honduras</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Hires </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>U.S.</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Lobbyists</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:6.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This is another intent to
legitimize a de facto repressive regime violators of human rights en </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place>Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>New York Times<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:date Month="10" Day="8" Year="2009"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>October 8, 2009</span></font></st1:date><o:p></o:p></p>
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<h1><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>Leader
Ousted, </span></font></b><st1:country-region><st1:place>Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>
Hires <st1:country-region><st1:place>U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region>
Lobbyists <o:p></o:p></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>By <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/ginger_thompson/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More Articles by Ginger Thompson">GINGER THOMPSON</a>
and <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/ron_nixon/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More Articles by Ron Nixon">RON NIXON</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:State><st1:place><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>WASHINGTON</span></font></st1:place></st1:State> —
First, depose a president. Second, hire a lobbyist.<br>
In the months since soldiers ousted the Honduran president, <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/z/jose_manuel_zelaya/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More articles about José Manuel Zelaya Rosales.">Manuel
Zelaya</a>, the de facto government and its supporters have resisted demands
from the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
that he be restored to power. Arguing that the left-leaning Mr. Zelaya posed a
threat to their country’s fragile democracy by trying to extend his time in
office illegally, they have made their case in Washington in the customary way:
by starting a high-profile lobbying campaign.<br>
The campaign has had the effect of forcing the administration to send mixed
signals about its position to the de facto government, which reads them as
signs of encouragement. It also has delayed two key State Department appointments
in the region.<br>
Costing at least $400,000 so far, according to lobbying registration records,
the campaign has involved law firms and public relations agencies with close
ties to Secretary of State <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hillary_rodham_clinton/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More articles about Hillary Rodham Clinton.">Hillary
Rodham Clinton</a> and Senator <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/john_mccain/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More articles about John McCain.">John McCain</a>, a
leading Republican voice on foreign affairs. <br>
It has also drawn support from several former high-ranking officials who were
responsible for setting <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>
policy in <st1:place>Central America</st1:place> in the 1980s and ’90s, when
the region was struggling to break with the military dictatorships and
guerrilla insurgencies that defined the cold war. Two decades later, those
former officials — including <a href="http://www.ottoreich.com/bio.htm"
target="_blank" title=Biography.>Otto Reich</a>, <a
href="http://www.aei.org/scholar/102" target="_blank" title=Biography.>Roger
Noriega</a> and <a href="http://www.iri.org/Bio_Fisk.asp" target="_blank"
title=Biography.>Daniel W. Fisk</a> — view <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/honduras/index.html?inline=nyt-geo"
target="_blank" title="More news and information about Honduras.">Honduras</a>
as the principal battleground in a proxy fight with Cuba and Venezuela, which
they characterize as threats to stability in the region in language similar to
that once used to describe the designs of the Soviet Union.<br>
“The current battle for political control of <st1:country-region><st1:place>Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>
is not only about that small nation,” Mr. Reich <a
href="http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/111/rei071009.pdf"
target="_blank" title="Written testimony (PDF).">testified in July</a> before
Congress. “What happens in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>
may one day be seen as either the high-water mark of <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/hugo_chavez/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More articles about Hugo Chavez.">Hugo Chávez</a>’s
attempt to undermine democracy in this hemisphere or as a green light to the spread
of Chavista authoritarianism,” he said, referring to the Venezuelan president.<br>
Mr. Noriega, who was a co-author of the Helms-Burton Act, which tightened the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> embargo against <st1:country-region><st1:place>Cuba</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
and who has recently served as a lobbyist for a Honduran business group,
declined to comment for this article.<br>
Mr. Reich, who served in key Latin America posts for President <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/ronald_wilson_reagan/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More articles about Ronald Wilson Reagan.">Ronald Reagan</a>
and President <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/george_w_bush/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More articles about George W. Bush.">George W. Bush</a>,
said he had not lobbied officially for any Honduran group. But he said he had
used his connections to push the agenda of the de facto government, led by <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/roberto_micheletti/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More articles about Roberto Micheletti.">Roberto
Micheletti</a>, because he believed that the Obama administration had made a
mistake.<br>
And Mr. Fisk, whose political career has included stints on the <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/n/national_security_council/index.html?inline=nyt-org"
target="_blank" title="More articles about National Security Council, U.S.">National
Security Council</a> and as a deputy assistant secretary of state for Western
Hemisphere affairs under Mr. Bush, had been promoting the Micheletti
government’s case until two weeks ago as an aide to retired Senator Mel
Martinez of Florida.<br>
In addition to the support of such cold war veterans — and partly because of it
— the de facto government has mobilized the support of a determined group of
Republican legislators, led by Senator <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/jim_demint/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More articles about Jim DeMint.">Jim DeMint</a> of South
Carolina. They are holding up two State Department appointments as a way of
pressing the Obama administration to lift sanctions against the country.<br>
“We have made a wrong call here,” Mr. DeMint said <a
href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,561545,00.html" target="_blank"
title="Fox News transcript.">in an interview</a> with Fox News after returning
from a trip to <st1:country-region><st1:place>Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>
last Friday. Referring to the de facto government, he said, “This is probably
our best friend in the hemisphere, the most pro-American country, but we are
trying to strangle them.”<br>
Chris Sabatini, editor of <a href="http://www.americasquarterly.org/current"
target="_blank" title="Web site.">Americas Quarterly</a>, a policy journal
focusing on <st1:place>Latin America</st1:place>, said the lobbying had muddled
<st1:State><st1:place>Washington</st1:place></st1:State>’s position on the
coup. The administration has said publicly that it sees the coup in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>
as a dangerous development in a region that not too long ago was plagued by
them, he said.<br>
But, he added, to placate its opponents in Congress, and have its nominations
approved, the State Department has sometimes sent back-channel messages to
legislators expressing its support for Mr. Zelaya in more equivocal terms. <br>
“There’s been a leadership vacuum on <st1:country-region><st1:place>Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>
in the administration, and these are the people who’ve filled it,” he said of
the Micheletti government’s backers. “They haven’t gotten a lot of support, but
enough to hold the administration’s policy hostage for now.”<br>
After the June 28 coup, <a
href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per"
target="_blank" title="More articles about Barack Obama.">President Obama</a>
joined the region in condemning the action and calling for President Zelaya to
be returned to power, even though the Honduran president is an ally of Mr.
Chávez, <st1:country-region><st1:place>America</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s
biggest adversary in the region.<br>
But Congressional aides said that less than 10 days after Mr. Zelaya was
ousted, Mr. Noriega and <a
href="http://www.orrick.com/lawyers/Bio.asp?ID=149059" target="_blank"
title=Biography.>Lanny J. Davis</a>, a confidant of Mrs. Clinton and a lobbyist
for a Honduran business council, organized a meeting for supporters of the de
facto government with members of the Senate.<br>
Mr. Fisk, who attended the meeting, said he was stunned by the turnout. “I had
never seen eight senators in one room to talk about <st1:place>Latin America</st1:place>
in my entire career,” he said.<br>
As President Obama imposed increasingly tougher sanctions on <st1:country-region><st1:place>Honduras</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
the lobbying intensified. The <a href="http://www.thecormacgroup.com/"
target="_blank" title="Web site.">Cormac Group</a>, run by a former aide to
Senator McCain, John Timmons, signed on, records show, as did Chlopak, Leonard,
Schechter & Associates, a public relations firm.<br>
For his part, Mr. Reich sent his thoughts to members of Congress by e-mail. “We
should rejoice,” he wrote to one member of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, “that one of the self-proclaimed 21st Century socialist allies of
Chávez has been legally deposed by his own countrymen.”<br>
As is often the nature of lobbying, some messages have been sent without any
names attached. Floating around Senate offices in the last few weeks, for
example, was a list of talking points aimed at undermining the nomination of
Assistant Secretary of State Thomas A. Shannon as ambassador to <st1:country-region><st1:place>Brazil</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
Two Congressional aides, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about
matters related to the coup, said that Mr. Fisk wrote the talking points. <br>
Mr. Fisk denied having done so. He also dismissed the notion that he was
operating from an old playbook. “Someone else may be fighting over the ’80s,”
he said. “I’m not.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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