FIDEL: "A NOBEL PRIZE FOR MRS. CLINTON"

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Reflections by Comrade Fidel

A NOBEL PRIZE FOR MRS. CLINTON

The never-ending document read yesterday by the Nobel Laureate Oscar Arias
is much worse than the 7 points of the surrender paper he had proposed on
July 18th.

He wasn’t communicating with international opinion in Morse Code. He was
speaking in front of the TV cameras that were transmitting his image and
all the details of the human face that tends to have as many variables as
a person’s fingerprints. Any intent to lie can be easily discovered. I
was observing him carefully.

Among those watching the television, the great majority knew that Honduras
had had a coup d’état. That medium gave information about the speeches
made at the OAS, the UN, the SICA (Central American Integration System),
the NAM Summit and other forums; they had seen the violations, the
assaults and the repression inflicted on the people engaged in activities
that brought together hundreds of thousands of people protesting against
the coup.

The strangest thing was that when Arias was laying out his new peace
proposal, he wasn’t delusional; he believed what he was saying.

Even though very few in Honduras were able to see the images, in the rest
of the world many did see them and they also saw when he proposed the
famous 7 points on July 18th. They knew that the first of them said,
verbatim: “The legitimate restitution of José Manuel Zelaya Rosales to the
presidency of the Republic of Honduras until the end of the constitutional
term for which he was elected…”

Everyone wanted to know what the mediator would be saying yesterday
afternoon. The acknowledgement of the rights of the constitutional
president of Honduras, with the powers reduced almost to zero in the first
proposal, was relegated to sixth place in the second Arias plan, where the
phrase “to legitimate the restitution” is not even being used.

Many honest people are amazed and they perhaps attribute what he said
yesterday to some dark manoeuvres of his. Perhaps I am one of the few in
the world that understands that there was an auto-suggestive element
rather than a deliberate intent in the words of the Nobel Peace Laureate.
I noticed that especially when Arias, using special emphasis and laboured
phrasing on account of the emotion, spoke about the multitude of messages
that presidents and world leaders, moved by his initiative, had sent him.
It’s what was going through his mind; he doesn’t even realize that other
Nobel Peace Laureates, honest and modest individuals such as Rigoberta
Menchú and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, are outraged by what has happened in
Honduras.

Without any shadow of a doubt, a large part of the civilian governments of
Latin America, the ones who knew that Zelaya had approved the first Arias
plan and were confident in the good sense of the perpetrators of the coup
and their Yankee allies, breathed in relief; that lasted only 72 hours.

Seen from a different angle, and returning to the things that prevail in
the real world, where the dominant empire exists and almost 200 sovereign
states have to wrestle with all kinds of conflicts and political,
economic, environmental, religious and other interests, the only thing
missing is to award the brilliant Yankee way of thinking of Oscar Arias,
trying to gain some time, strengthen the coup, and dishearten the
international bodies that supported Zelaya.

On the 30th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution,
Daniel Ortega, bitterly remembering Arias’ role in the first Esquipulas
Treaty, declared before a huge crowd of Nicaraguan patriots: “The Yankees
know him well, that’s why they chose him to be the mediator in Honduras”.
At that same event, Rigoberta Menchú, of indigenous descent, condemned the
coup.

If the measures agreed to at the foreign ministers meeting in Washington
would be merely fulfilled, the coup d’état would not have been able to
survive the non-violent resistance of the Honduran people.

Now the perpetrators of the coup are already moving around in the
oligarchic spheres of Latin America, some of which, from high state
positions, no longer blush when they speak of their sympathies for the
coup and imperialism goes fishing in the choppy waters of the river that
is Latin America. Exactly what the United States wanted with the peace
initiative, while it accelerated negotiations to surround Bolivar’s
homeland with military bases.

We must be fair, and while we await the last word of the people of
Honduras, we should demand a Nobel Prize for Mrs. Clinton.


Fidel Castro Ruz
July 23, 2009
2:30 p.m.

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