Honduras: The First Real Victory for Barack Obama - Le Monde/France

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To reverse a democracy and ruin the hopes of an entire people: Yes he can!

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One year after his election, the president of the United States disappointed those who had placed their hopes in him. Promises vanished, giving way to an already long list of failures and turnabouts. However, Barack Obama can declare a first victory: the ousting of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, which was completely eclipsed by the Haitian tragedy.

He belonged to ALBA, the organization that unites several leftist governments, such as Bolivia (E. Morales), Venezuela (H. Chavez) and, of course, Cuba (R. Castro), breaking with the liberal economy promoted by the United States and opposed to North American interference.

And M. Zelaya, when he was in the process of organizing a rapprochement with D. Ortega’s Nicaragua, finally declared at the United Nations that “capitalism is in the process of devouring human beings.” He concluded the same day as the coup, “What is happening here is a conspiracy to prevent the people from organizing themselves and demanding rights…the rich do not give a cent; the rich give none of their money: they want everything for themselves alone…but they must understand that poverty will not end as long as the poor do not make the laws.”

Of course, Barack Obama immediately condemned the coup d’etat. But at the same time, his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had proposed a behind-the-scenes mediation favorable to the coup elements; namely, the creation of a national union government, which would have guaranteed the return of M. Zelaya to the presidency, but on condition that he no longer exercise any real power. Furthermore, slightly before the coup, the United States ambassador to Honduras had been replaced by Hugo Llorens, already in charge of Andean affairs in 2002, which is to say, at the time of the coup d’etat against Hugo Chavez. The signs could not be mistaken.

To reverse a democracy and ruin the hopes of an entire people: Yes he can!