Honduras, Military Escalation Test,
Chavez
Caracas - The
coup in Honduras was a test for a military
escalation, which is continuously increased
and boosted, with the new US military bases
in Colombia, Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez warned on Sunday.
Chavez expressed concern about the
situation, which could start to cool off
internationally and the pressure on the
putschists could ease up, and he called on
the international community to continue
doing their best so that the Honduran people
can retake their democratic path.
In his Sunday column, entitled "Chavez'
Lines", he insisted that the coup was staged
in open complicity with the US military base
in Palmerola, where the plane that took
President Manuel Zelaya away from Honduras
landed.
"These have been two months of lessons:
first, the openly interventionist power of
important US sectors that are striving to
change the people's fate and secondly, the
powerlessness of international bodies to
enforceg their own decisions," said Chavez.
According to him, it is a terrible sign to
the rest of the continent, "which may start
to see that dishonor and injustice have
become its daily bread."
He said that to speak about an imminent
threat to the entire region, mainly to
neighbors in Colombia, is no overstatement.
"We all risk a military intervention if we
do not dance to the tune of the empire."
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