SchooloftheAmericas

Here are some working notes for an article I am about to publish on the meaning of the coup, and the US bases in Colombia.* There are a number of salient points that must be understood in order to understand the "Tegucigolpe" (coup) in Honduras:

 

First, the coup was made in Washington and the US Soto Cano (formerly Palmerola) airbase. Washington participated, through mostly Bush appointees and some going back to the Clinton presidency), in conceiving, planning, and carryout the coup. As always, US coup-making was conducted with all the appropriate disguises and trickery to lay the basis for plausible denial and even "opposition" in the event the "dress rehearsal coup" won on the ground but blew up in their faces internationally.