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Reflections of Fidel
A revolution is being born there
ON July 16, I stated textually that the coup
d’état in Honduras "was conceived of and organized
by unscrupulous individuals on the extreme right,
dependable officials of George W. Bush and promoted
by him."
I quoted the names of Hugo Llorens, Robert Blau,
Stephen McFarland and Robert Callahan, yanki
ambassadors in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and
Nicaragua, appointed by Bush in the months of July
and August of 2008, the four of them following the
line of John Negroponte and Otto Reich, both of a
shady history.
I indicated the yanki base of Soto Cano [Palmerola]
as a central support point for the coup d’état and
that "the idea of the a peace initiative from Costa
Rica was transmitted to the president of that
country from the State Department when Obama was in
Moscow and stated, in a Russian university, that the
only president of Honduras was Manuel Zelaya." I
added that "the Costa Rica meeting called into
question the authority of the UN, the OAS and other
institutions which had committed their support to
the people of Honduras and that the only correct
thing to do was to demand that the United States
should end its intervention in Honduras and withdraw
the Joint Task Force from that country."
The response of the United States in the wake of
the coup d’état in that Central American country has
been to draw up an agreement with the government of
Colombia for the creation of seven military bases,
like the one in Soto Cano in that sister country,
which are a threat to Venezuela, Brazil and all the
other nations of South America.
At a critical moment, when the tragedy of climate
change and the international economic crisis is
being discussed in a summit meeting of heads of
state of the United Nations, the coup perpetrators
in Honduras are threatening to violate the immunity
of the Brazilian embassy, where President Manuel
Zelaya, his family and a group of his followers who
were forced to take shelter in that building are to
be found.
It has been confirmed that the government of
Brazil had nothing whatsoever to do with the
situation that has been created there.
It is therefore inadmissible, moreover
inconceivable, that the Brazilian embassy should be
assaulted by the fascist government, unless that
government is attempting to be the instrument of its
own suicide by dragging the country into a direct
invasion by foreign forces, as was the case in Haiti,
which would signify a direct invasion of yanki
troops under the flag of the United Nations.
Honduras is not a distant and isolated country in
the Caribbean. An intervention by foreign forces in
Honduras would unleash a conflict in Central America
and create political chaos in all of Latin America.
The heroic struggle of the Honduran people after
almost 90 days of incessant battling has placed in
crisis the fascist and pro-yanki government
that is repressing unarmed men and women.
We have seen a new awareness emerge in the
Honduran people. An entire legion of social fighters
has been hardened in that battle. Zelaya fulfilled
his promise to return. He has the right to be
reestablished in government and to preside over the
elections. New and admirable cadres are standing out
among the combative social movements, capable of
leading that nation along the difficult roads that
await the peoples of Our America. A revolution is
being born there.
The UN Assembly could be a historic one,
depending on its correct decisions or errors.
World leaders have expounded issues of great
interest and complexity. They reflect the magnitude
of the tasks that humanity has ahead of it and how
scant the time available is.

Fidel Castro Ruz
September 24, 2009
1.23 p.m.
Translated by Granma International
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