Honduras

In this interview with Paul Jay from TheRealNews, Gregory Wilpert, founder of Venezuelanalysis, discusses the recent foreign policy choices of the Chávez government. Analysing topical issues such as Venezuela's growing relationship with Colombia and Venezuela's vote in favour of allowing Honduras back into the Organization of American States (OAS), Wilpert considers the motivation behind these decisions and how this relates to the Venezuelan left.

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In this video Gregory Wilpert, founder of Venezuelanalysis, discusses the recent foreign policy choices of the Chávez government. Analysing topical issues such as Venezuela's growing relationship with Colombia and Venezuela's vote in favour of allowing Honduras back into the Organization of American States (OAS), Wilpert considers the motivation behind these decisions and how this relates to the Venezuelan left.

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Following claims made by U.S. newspaper El Nuevo Herald earlier this week, the Honduran government has denied that it made a “secret pact” with Venezuela to implement “Socialism of the 21^st Century” in the Central American nation.

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Petras argues that, the government of Hugo Chavez has arrested a number of Colombian guerrilla leaders and a radical journalist with Swedish citizenship and handed them over to the right-wing regime of President Juan Manuel Santos, earning the Colombian government’s praise and gratitude.  The close on-going collaboration between a leftist President with such a regime has led to widespread protests throughout Latin America and Europe, while pleasing the Euro-American imperial establishment.

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On Wednesday the Venezuelan government voted “with reservations” for the return of Honduras to the Organization of American States (OAS). Insisting on the need for “justice” in cases of human rights violations tied to the 2009 coup d'état against democratically-elected president Manuel Zelaya – which resulted in Honduras’ expulsion from the OAS – Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolás Maduro welcomed the country’s return to the OAS as well as “reconciliation” efforts underway in the Central American nation.

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Venezuela’s President Chavez applauded the signing of an agreement in Colombia, which will allow Manuel Zelaya, the president of Honduras overthrown in a coup in 2009, to return there.

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Many Latin America watchers were thrown for a loop last month when a bilateral meeting in Cartagena, Colombia between Presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia suddenly metamorphosed into a trilateral encounter that included Porfirio Lobo, the controversial president of Honduras. 

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Venezuela’s President Chávez met with ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and a delegation from the National Resistance Front (Frente de Resistencia Hondurena) on Saturday in order to continue mediation of the current political conflict in Honduras.

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Watching the documentary “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” (2003) about the short-lived coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in 2002, I arrived at the conclusion that Che Guevara’s detection of a single mestizo race stretching from Mexico to the Straits of Magellan must be fine-tuned to account for the existence of what appears to be a single golpista race spanning the same territory.

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The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) released a statement yesterday reaffirming its commitment to the Honduran people’s struggle for a return to democracy one year after the coup that overthrew President Manuel Zelaya.

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