South Florida's exile activists set sights on Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Wednesday, 11.25.09
South Florida's exile activists set sights on Honduras
A range of political groups in South Florida views Honduras as a symbol worth fighting over.
BY TRENTON DANIEL
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Eleno Oviedo, imprisoned in Cuba for 26 years, stood outside a Sedano's in Hialeah on a recent Saturday, eager to collect donations for a fresh cause: Honduras.``We set up a table and had some signs and asked people to give what they could,'' said Oviedo, 73, co-director of Plantados, a group of one-time political prisoners from Cuba. Oviedo is among groups of local Cubans seeking to help Honduras as the country tries to recover from political upheaval following the ouster of President Manuel ``Mel'' Zelaya and the global shunning of the government.

Since the populist Zelaya was toppled in June, groups representing various ideologies have sought to wield influence over Honduras as the country prepares for national elections Sunday. Some groups have shipped medicine, hospital supplies and food to Honduras after the United States announced the suspension of aid. Others have organized rallies outside the country's diplomatic office in West Miami-Dade.

``This is an ideology war,'' said Bruce Bagley, chairman of the International Studies Department at the University of Miami. ``It's like a Rorschach test, and they read their own ideology into it.''

Exile groups in South Florida view Zelaya as a regional threat because of his populist rhetoric and ties to Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez, an ally of Cuba's Fidel Castro. Left-wing groups see Zelaya's ouster as a setback for democracy in a region long besieged by coups bearing U.S. fingerprints.

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Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

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Florida Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart

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Florida Congressman Mario Diaz Balart, Bush, with ex-CIA tool Porter Goss in the middle.

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Florida Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, and Senator Mel Martinez

[Peace Patriot]

1. "A range of political groups in South Florida views Honduras as a symbol worth fighting over."

And the Miami Hairball is right there, promoting their dirty rotten coup plots for destroying democracy in Latin America (not to mention here).

:thumbsdown:

[Downwinder]

2. Remains to be seen if the 10 families will welcome Florida interference when the dust settles.

Honduras might not be big enough for all of them. Of course if the Floridans are just mules passing through, there will probably not be a problem.

[flamingdem]

3. I'm glad Yoani Sanchez came out against the blockade on Cuba

some egg on the face of bowling pin and the rest of the mafia.

[Braulio]

4. I'm opposed to the embargo (it's not a blockade)

But I also think if the embargo goes, the Castro regime will fall a lot faster. And it's time those guys stopped running the show in Cuba. It has been 50 years of poverty inspired by communist dogma.

[Downwinder]

5. I think inspired by capitalist dogma would be more accurate.

[Judi Lynn]

6. I'm sure Cubans mourn the absense of the filthy racist gusanos!

They'd probably give anything to have the earlier Cuba back, with death squads to torture, mutilate, murder, terrorize to keep the suffering masses down, to protect the nasty greedy elite living off the exploitation of suffering people living from wages derived from seasonal work in the fields, with no adequate shelter, food, education, or future, many suffering from internal parasites, no electricity or fresh water or plumbing.

Them was the days.