Chavez groping in the dark - Now says U.S. troops involved in Zelaya ouster...

Venezuelan de facto socialist President Hugo Chavez is now saying he has information indicating that U.S. troops were involved in removing deposed Honduran ALBA President Manuel Zelaya from power and putting him on a plane in his Mickey Mouse pijamas to neighboring Costa Rica.

According to the latest story, Chavez is saying that Zelaya told him that when he was awakened by armed Honduran troops on June 28 he was taken to the U.S. military base in Honduras and that a U.S. general made the decision to send him to Costa Rica in his Mickey Mouse pajamas. This is the new colorful story being told by Zelaya and Chavez two months after the supposed fact.

U.S. President Barack Obama doesn’t understand what is happening in the region, Chavez said, and should close military bases in Honduras and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Oh, and the new one’s being used in Colombia.

“I think Obama is lost, he’s confused,” Chavez said on his weekly television program. “We’re not asking him to intervene in Honduras. To the contrary, we’re asking him to take the empire’s hands off of Honduras and its claws out of Latin America, “ and allow me and my ALBA acolytes hands free access to intervening in the internal affairs of Latin American countries like before Obama’s recent policy change in the region.”

The U.S. Embassy in Caracas is currently reviewing Chavez’s remarks and may have an official comment tomorrow, said Larry Socha, the embassy’s assistant press officer. But is such silly gibberish hardly deserves a second thought much less and official response.

Zelaya has been seeking support to return to Honduras since he was kicked out of office for meddling and trying to restructure the Honduran constitution he swore to uphold. Roberto Micheletti, the former president of the Congress, and interim president, took over as the acting president when Zelaya was sent packing.

Obama, who met with leaders from Mexico and Canada on Aug. 10, said that democratic order must be restored to Honduras. He also said that the same Latin American countries that asked him not to intervene in the region are now asking him to take action to restore Zelaya.

It seems from Obama’s statement that everyone, including his own administration, has been undefined and flip-flopping on the issue of Honduras. But order seems now to finally be implemented thanks to the U.S. Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. policy toward Latin America for the 21st Century is again clear and in the best interests of democracy and prosperity.