The Provocateur, his Protégé, and the Toppling of a President

The story of Otto Reich’s role in fomenting the June coup d’etat in Honduras is not a brief one.

This piece by Machetera is the best piece of journalism that I’ve read in a long, long time. The two-part article looks at the real reasons behind the Honduran coup, not the bullshit the corporate media continue to feed us about Zelaya ‘turning into a dictator’ by changing term limits.*

It clearly lays out the complicated story behind the coup, involving plotters both in Honduras and elsewhere, their connections to corporate power, and the importance of the telecommunications industry.

I’d be doing a disservice to this phenomenal piece of reporting if I attempted to summarise it any further.

It’s split over two parts. Part one is here, and part two is here.

* This is such a clear lie it’s hilarious. The referendum Zelaya proposed was non-binding, and the only way it could help him is if he were to run in the next presidential election, with a gap of at least one term.