| Submit your comments on this article | |
| Caribbean-Latin America | |
| Chávez 'orchestrated' arrival of Zelaya | |
| 2009-09-25 | |
The newspaper OR State of Sao Paulo published on the front page "Brasilia attributes to Chávez plan of return of Zelaya to Honduras". Advisors of President Luiz Inácio Lanky informed OR Been that "the infrastructure and the logistics for the illegal return of Manuel Zelaya to Honduras included the participation of the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez". The Venezuelan leader, "even advised Zelaya to lodge in the embassy of Brazil and take refuge" because "the diplomatic representation in Brazil, as opposed to the others, offer all the security for the deposed president, since the government of the Lanky President is to the vanguard of the pressure so that Zelaya be returned to the power". The Brazilian position has the full endorsement of the United States that does not recognize to the government that was installed in Honduras, recalled the Brazilian [advisor]. Brazil, United States and Chile, request approval by Honduras of the Agreement of San José, proposed by the president of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, whose central point is the return of Zelaya to the presidential chair, rejected by the government of Roberto Micheletti. The president maintains that they did not participae in the return of Zelaya to the embassy of Tegucigalpa. The Brazilian chancellery asked Zelaya "officially" to avoid statements that could produce any type of reaction of its followers, that would include acts of violence, indicated the newspaper. The House of Representatives approved yesterday the shipment of a delegation of parliamentarians from Brazil to Honduras. According to Ivan Valente (PSOL-SP), one of the members of the delegation, "the idea is to reject all the intents of distortion of the institutions and to protect the integrity of the Brazilian delegation in Honduras". Said delegation is faced with legal difficulties and logistics for the trip, since for the time being Brazil does not have diplomatic relations with Honduras and must request a safe-conduct from the Honduran Congress to enter to the country. Besides they could not arrive at Honduras, because -in a day marked by the intensification of the looting to supermarkets and banks- the airports of the country remained closed, stated the newspaper OR State of Sao Paulo. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |