Honduran UD party and the FARC connection

César Ham, UD presidential candidate
amazingly healthy looking for a dead man

Well, well, well. Guess what else those FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) computers had?

According to Mary Anastasia O'Grady of the Wall Street Journal, those computers which showed that FARC financed Ecuador's President Rafael Correa election campaign also show that the UD party of Honduras have narcotrafficking connections.

The FARC is a major player in the cocaine trade, and documents found in computers captured by the Colombian military in a raid last year on a FARC camp in Ecuador show that the rebels have been active in Honduras. A number of those documents came into my possession last week. One is a March 2005 letter to the now-deceased rebel leader Raúl Reyes from another FARC honcho. It provides a list of “political contacts” that have been established around the region and in Spain to provide “support” and help “coordinate the work” of the FARC.

Honduras’s Partido de Unificación Democrática (UD) is on the list. The party has only a small representation in Congress, but it is the only political party that supports the return of Mr. Zelaya. Wherever there are violent demonstrations and roadblocks advocating for Mr. Zelaya, the UD is there.

I have a feeling that there are going to be several union leader names on that list, too.

César Ham of the UD party is the presidential candidate who was reported murdered by the police on June 28 by the unethical Radio Globo station which promotes violence to its listeners. Ham has since come out of hiding though he is still reported as a victim by many of the fake "human rights" websites.

On July 27, police found a list of names of labor leaders and government functionaries with corresponding amounts totaling US $160,000 in the car of Carlos Eduardo Reina, son of the ex-Ambassador of Honduras to the UN, Jorge Arturo Reina.

César Ham's name was on the list with a signed receipt for $15,000. That amount of cash in US dollars could not be traced to any banks and it was suspected that the cash was for payments to the pro-Zelaya protesters and supporters at the border and came from Venezuela or drug money.

I had a fear that if Mel Zelaya returned before the elections, César Ham would win, even though there is no chance in the world that he could have won in an honest election.

But, oh wait. That's right, for a moment I forgot that the OAS, UN, US, and EU want Honduras to have a law-breaking, narcotrafficking president since they know what is best for Honduras.

Read the entire Wall Street Journal article The FARC's Honduran Friends.

Zelaya speaks to followers on Radio Globo

I heard an interview with ex-president Mel Zelaya on Radio Globo yesterday. Here are some highlights of what he said:

The population is practically living in a concentration camp.

The golpistas aren't sincere about dialogue.

We need more measures [against Honduras by the international community].

90% [of the population] are against the coup d' etat.

Elections are fraudulent.

This is a historical repression like never seen before.

There are hundreds of political prisoners.

There are more than 200 protests in different cities every day that the media doesn't cover.

Interestingly, Zelaya wasn't asked, nor did he volunteer the very important information that he has apparently agreed to drop the constitutional assembly project, though his spokesperson Carlos Eduardo Reina affirmed that he couldn't be responsible if the population later wanted to be consulted.

Some of the resistance groups have made it clear that the restitution of Zelaya is less important than achieving the constitutional assembly. The San José Accord expressly prohibits Zelaya and his ministers from promoting a constituyente under any name.

When knowledge spreads among his supporters (who are told that anyone who listens to or reads "golpista" media is ignorant) that he is willing to drop this project, he is likely to lose much of his following.

However, while in the past Zelaya has told Insulza of the OAS, Hillary Clinton of the US State Department, and Oscar Arias that he agrees to the San José Accord, he has given several public interviews including one with CNN (Español) immediately after his meeting with Hillary Clinton, in which he clearly proclaims that the constitutional assembly will continue. It is anybody's guess what he will be saying tomorrow.