Brazil seeks more U.S. pressure on Honduran de facto gov't (Xinhua)

[struggle4progress]

2009-10-10 11:04:58 Print

BRASILIA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Brazil on Friday called on the U.S. to increase its pressure on the de facto Honduran government to help solve the political crisis in the Central American country.

The U.S. position is important because of its strong economic ties with Honduras, said Marco Aurelio Garcia, special adviser to the Brazilian presidency on international affairs.

"We hope the pressure will increase, mainly from the U.S. government," Garcia said. "We are going to take advantage of the Nobel Peace Prize President Obama has received to ask him to take action" ...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/10/content_12205254.htm

[Peace Patriot]

1. I was thinking the Peace Prize was sheer relief that the US was no longer aimed at Armageddon,

and maybe belonged more to the military brass, corpos, Daddy Bush and others, who called off the nuking of Iran and fired Rumsfeld. But maybe it was more about Oil War II-South America, trying to strengthen Obama in dealing with the forces who are looking at this second BIG pot of oil, "right in our own backyard," and have been putting war assets in place and running psyops/disinformation campaigns against the leaders of Venezuela and Ecuador (where the biggest oil reserves are located).

One of those war assets is Honduras. The fascist coup there, which was perpetrated by fascists there in cahoots with fascists here, in addition to benefiting the rich and US global corporate predators (typical of US policy), also secured the US military base at Soto Cano, Honduras. (The ousted president had suggested that it be turned into a commercial airport.) With this base, combined with the seven new US military bases in Colombia (along with $6 BILLION in military aid to Colombia, a country with one of the worst human rights records on earth), and the Bushwhack reconstitution of the US 4th Fleet in the Caribbean, the US has Venezuela's richest oil reserves surrounded. There is more evidence for this war plan which I won't go into here. I just wanted to note how strong the EU has been on the Honduran issue. They were quick, and they are adamant, in supporting the elected president of Honduras who was ousted by the coup. I was actually a bit surprised by this--by how strong the EU has been on it. Do they have clearer long distance vision, as to US war plans in South America, than most of us can perceive here, due to our government's secrecy (especially Pentagon, CIA and Bushwhack moles' secrecy) and our war profiteering corpo/fascist press?

I don't know whether the war plan for South America is just something Rumsfeld left sitting on the desk--parts of which are proceeding seemingly on their own momentum--and will eventually be scrapped by our current more peace-minded president (peace-minded as to Latin America)--or whether it is a major goal of our global corporate predator rulers and war profiteers, that is proceeding stealthily and will be implemented after they Diebold Obama out of office in 2012 (if they do--if that is a necessity of the plan). (They may also have a Bay of Pigs/Gulf of Tonkin-type scenario in mind, for dragging Obama into a war in South America against his will.) In any case, THIS may be what the Nobel Peace Prize is about, or a big part of it. The Europeans can see that South America is the next theater of war, for US oil corps and war profiteers, and are trying to bolster the "dove" side of the "hawks vs dove" struggle that has obviously been going on within the Obama government.

We don't get much news about it here, but most South American leaders--including the most influential ones, like Lula da Silva of Brazil--are very worried about US war plans in Latin America. In fact, it was Lulu who proposed that South America create a "common defense," and who said that the US reconstitution of the 4th Fleet is a threat to Brazil's oil reserves. (Everybody south of the border knows that it is a threat to Venezuela's.)

Now look again at this statement of Marco Aurelio Garcia, special adviser to the Brazilian presidency on international affairs, on the junta in Honduras:

"We hope the pressure will increase, mainly from the U.S. government,. We are going to take advantage of the Nobel Peace Prize President Obama has received to ask him to take action" ...

Why would he make such a presumption--that the Peace Prize has anything to do with Honduras? Why are they linked in his mind? And, given that Obama's official position is against the Honduran coup, and that his administration has taken action against it already (strong enough action to infuriate the Pukes in Congress), what is Brazil aiming at, here? I think the aim is a general one--at the warmongers who are still running things in the US, and their plan for Oil War II-South America. And that could also have been the aim--or one of the aims--of the Nobel Committee in giving this award to Obama.