White washing the International Community

Although the Teguz Accord gave the new govt a reasonable time frame (6 months) to form the Truth Commission (TC), I believe it is being hurried by the OAS in order to erase their responsibility in the events that happened in Honduras. Many countries condemned Honduras because the were following suit to the OAS. It is now known that the OAS acted hurriedly and turned a blind eye to the events that led up to June 28th. It is also fact that they had sent a special envoy 2 weeks before Zelaya's ouster and that they were sending a commission the day AFTER the illegal referendum. Internal sources tell us that the envoy was seeking to eliminate opposition to the referendum and most Hondurans believe that the commission was coming to legitimize the illegal referendum and the fraudulent results, as they have done in the past. Thus it is not a matter of the OAS being passive, but on the contrary, they were actively pushing to errode the democratic institutions in Honduras. They would certainly have an interest in obscuring those facts. The Truth Commission is being populated by members of the Carter Center who came here, spoke to Zelaya and left saying there were no conditions for a free election. The facts show they were wrong: It was the most voted and the most transparent election in Honduran history. How will they reconcile their mistaken assessment with "The Truth" they propose to establish? In my humble opinion, all these actions are looking to wash the face of the International Community who goofed badly - not even countries in a civil war have been attacked as cruelly as Honduras. They will do this by laying the blame on Micheletti whom nobody, but the people of Honduras, wants to see as a hero who stood fast against foreign aggression, defended democracy and the separation of power, protected free and transparent elections and successfully transferred power to the newly elected president. Not even Lobo wants to compete against such high standards.

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