Zelaya calls on ALBA to question Honduras about funds
August 25, 2010 – VHeadline News – Editor Patrick J. O’Donoghue reports:
The ousted President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya has called on member countries of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) to put pressure on the Honduran government, asking for an explanation about the destiny of certain funds.
Zelaya said the current government is bent on “fleecing” funds that were given by other countries for development and the fight against exclusion.
Zelaya insisted that when he was ousted from government, he had left the funds intact in the national treasury.
The appeal to ALBA member countries, he declared, is an answer to a campaign of disinformation and lies launched by Honduran broadsheets, Diario El Heraldo and Diario La Prensa and taken up by the Spanish edition of CNN.
The same newspapers, Zelaya condemned, were responsible for the climate of disinformation that was evident during the coup d’etat against him.
The funds Zelaya is referring to came from ALBA and his government is being accused of diverting $98 million. Zelaya accused CNN of not verifying its sources and of hiding acts of repression that occur on a daily basis in Honduras.
According to the High Court of Accounts president, Miguel Angel Mejia, Venezuela donated $100 million to the permanent commission of contingencies, of which 2 million were used and the rest transferred to the presidency under Zelaya.
Zelaya denied the charge and for that reason has called on ALBA member countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Venezuela to ask the Honduran government for an explanation.
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