Otto Reich and the Honduran Coup D’Etat: The Provocateur, his Protege, and the
Toppling of a President – Part One
July 30, 2009
The story of Otto Reich’s role in fomenting the June coup d’etat in Honduras is
not a brief one. This report will be posted over two days.
OTTO REICH AND THE HONDURAN COUP D’ETAT:
The Provocateur, his Protégé, and the Toppling of a President (Part One)
By Machetera*
The very same day that the coup d’etat in Honduras began, in an emergency
session of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington D.C., Roy
Chaderton, the Venezuelan ambassador to the OAS, spoke with a simmering fury as
he looked directly at Hector Morales, the U.S. Ambassador to the OAS.
“There’s a person who’s been very important within U.S. diplomacy, one who has
re-connected with old friends and colleagues and helped encourage the coup
perpetrators,” he said.
“The gentleman’s name is Otto Reich, former Assistant Secretary of State
for Western Hemisphere Affairs during the government of George [W.] Bush. We in
Venezuela have suffered this man, as the U.S. Ambassador in Venezuela, as an
interventionist, we suffered him later in his position as Assistant Secretary
of State…we had the First Reich, later, the Second Reich, now unfortunately
we’re facing the Third Reich, moving within the Latin American ambit through an
NGO [non-governmental organization], to fan the flames of the coup.”
Following Chaderton’s furious denunciation, Reich penned a strange non
mea-culpa opinion piece which the Miami Herald obligingly printed, complete
with Reich’s deliberate misspellings of Chaderton’s name. He said that he was
not the coup’s “architect,” which is quite some distance from a total denial....
fulll:
http://machetera.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/otto-reich-and-the-honduran-coup-detat-the-provocateur-his-protege-and-the-toppling-of-a-president-part-one/
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