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UNCLAS TEGUCIGALPA 000845 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR WHA 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL HO
SUBJECT: TFH01: MEDIA REACTION U.S. POLICY AND OAS 
 
"U.S. Policy and OAS." 
 
1.(U)Editorial in TV news program Abriendo Brecha (8-25-09): "The 
results of the OAS ministers' visit to our country was kind of a 
(pre-fabricated) chronicle even before they came to Honduras, 
because we knew of their pre-determined objective beforehand. 
Because without the need to scrutinize those characters, starting 
with the awful Argentine minister of bad reputation, it was not 
necessary to bet that those gentlemen were coming with the firm 
intention to twist our arm to accept the signature of the Oscar 
Arias Agreement.  But we knew the position of the Honduran 
institutions, starting with the judicial branch and Public Ministry 
who are the most prestigious, true defenders of the majesty of our 
laws.  The OAS men came wanting to (hypnotize) us with their 
diplomatic magic tricks which are not a good option for Honduras. 
How can we accept as a good lobby the one that gives allegiance to 
the love of Venezuelan petrodollars?  The OAS had to play the sad 
role of an organization who runs errands for Hugo Chavez and that 
was proven after the insulting treatment given by the Venezuelan 
dictator to the OAS Secretary General, giving him the most degrading 
insults that (would) offend the dumbest of the dumb. ...  What is 
the value of the commitments contracted by a politician as 
unpredictable as Mr. Manuel Zelaya who was known for undoing all the 
institutions of our country who kept warning him that no one can 
violate the law?  His sentence will be given immediately as 
established by the 239 article of our Constitution.  We have to 
focus on the recent analysis by the journalist, Spaniard, Guillermo 
Cao, who said that the Obama government has seen the opportunity to 
put to an end to Chavez' expansionist course in the small and 
insignificant Honduras.   Interpreting in the good sense, (we think) 
that the U.S. wants Chavez to experience a coup, blowing the whistle 
on Zelaya here in Honduras where the U.S. would apply its strategy; 
we do not know which it is, but who would know (there could be) such 
grave consequences for Honduras.  The U.S. is using us as lab (rats) 
in what seems to be one of the smartest of itsdiplomatic strategies 
that they plan to execute at the expense of ruining the future of 
Honduras, eaving us under a regional conflict that will groud our 
country into dust.  That is why, dear comptriots: the majority of 
Hondurans will have to pss now to the resistance, to resist this 
U.S. and OAS policy that seeks to twist our arm in a humiliting and 
dangerous way.  ... The economic pressues are not so important as 
the extreme situationto allow Honduras to fall into the hands of 
new mperialism coming from Venezuela and South America financed by 
Chavez petro-dollars.  Insulza only tinks about his next reelection 
that he will achive only with the support of the Alba countries; 
eanwhile the OAS responds to the dictates from themajority 
membership that by coincidence are also from the Alba countries, the 
U.S. on its side is rying to give a coup to Chavez at the expense 
of leaving Honduras entangled in a pulverized future, like Iraq or 
Afghanistan.  Let's not allow anyone to convert Honduras into a 
wasted democracy, where we will remain in a dictatorship disguised 
as democracy Venezuelan style or become a national ruin like Iraq. 
It is time to start talking about reviewing the Palmerola agreement 
if necessary, because if the U.S. is playing dirty, Hondurans must 
not be naove (enough) to continue being used.  There is no more 
dignified path than to review the Palmerola case in the near future, 
in moments when the U.S. is saying to us that as a country we are 
not worth much in the face of their diplomatic strategies. 
Hondurans should know that this reaction is not an act of disrespect 
to the international rules of diplomacy, because the conflict that 
arose before June 28 does not seem to interest anybody in the world, 
but afterwards many countries and organizations have disrespected 
us. ... Hondurans are going to elections without fear; our Electoral 
system has prepared us since last year in which we elected the 
candidates in the primary elections and today we must choose a new 
president.  And those who talk about boycotting the elections, we 
have to apply the full weight of the law without any kind of 
contemplation.  Faced with so much abuse and disrespect, Hondurans 
must respond with dignity; dignity must be today's watchword. 
 
Henshaw