The denunciation made by the Venezuelan minister and the one made by President Chávez again bring to public discussion the topic of the coups d'état in Latin American countries, particularly at a time when the government of Venezuela is denouncing Colombia's plans, encouraged by the United States, to create the conditions “to justify an aggression against our nation on the basis of false-positives or simulations of punishable deeds.”
In early August, UNASUR met in Ecuador, which assumed the presidency of the organization. The announced goal of the meeting was to carry forward the process of integration, but the meeting took place under the shadow of renewed U.S. military intervention.
By George Ciccariello-Maher - Counterpunch.org, Jul 5th 2009
A comparison of the Coup in Honduras with the Coup of 2002 in Venezuela. The recent street rebellions against the Ahmadinejad regime in Iran were touted by many as the first baptism-by-fire of Twitter as a political tool. Celebratory articles abounded for a brief time, before such foolish dreams came crashing back to earth under the weight of a metric ton of misinformation, unsubstantiated rumor, and idle gossip..
Three members of the news crew of Telesur, the Latin American TV channel initiated by the Venezuelan government, were detained on Monday. They were filming military repression against demonstrators protesting the coup against the democratically elected President Manuel Zelaya from the rooftop of a building in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital.
Venezuelan foreign
minister, Nicolás Maduro Moros, said Sunday, from Miraflores Presidential
Palace, that Latin America must guarantee the defeat of the coup d'etat against
the President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, and try those responsible.
The president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez Frias, manifested his rejection, this Sunday, of the kidnapping of the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, by that nation's military, and said that North American imperialism and the extreme right are behind this act.
