Wednesday, September 9, 2009

German FPD(neoliberal party) supports Coupsters

The Naumann Caucus
2009/06/30
TEGUCIGALPA/BERLIN
(Own report) - Right up to the putsch, Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya's liberalist opponents were being supported by forces close to the German Free Democratic Party (FDP). Zelaya's rival and current presidential candidate, Elvin Santos, is among them, as well as Roberto Micheletti. Micheletti took over the office of president following Zelaya's kidnapping, last weekend. During the course of his presidency, Zelaya, who, just a few years ago, had himself been supported by the FDP affiliated Friedrich Naumann Foundation, turned his back on the German organization's neo-liberal policy. He turned instead toward the ALBA international alliance ("Alternative Bolivariana para las Américas" or Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas) formed around Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba. This has led to hefty power struggles inside his party. His opponents, who up until two weeks ago were being advised by an FDP affiliated strategist, have close ties to the Naumann Foundation. The putsch resolved the conflict to the advantage of the partners in the Naumann Foundation. Following the putsch, the representative of the foundation in Tegucigalpa wrote that Zelaya shares the responsibility for the military coup; he is "more the culprit than the victim."
Strategy Consultation
In November 2005, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party (Liberal Party of Honduras - PLH), Manuel Zelaya, won the elections. The German political advisor, Peter Schroeder, had already been supporting the PLH in their election campaign, at the time in favor of Zelaya. From 1971 - 1982 Schroeder had worked for the FDP, his last position having been that of director of the "Communication and Service" section in the FDP's national headquarters. Today he heads his own communications and consultant firm in the vicinity of Bonn, but always works for organizations affiliated with the FDP. At the beginning of his term of office, Zelaya had greatly appreciated Schroeder's support. "Without the strategy counseling of Peter Schroeder (...) I would not have won the elections" appraised the Honduran president in January 2006.[1]
With Foundation Background
At the time, the German liberals held an unusually influential position in the PHL through the FDP-affiliated Friedrich Naumann Foundation. More than half of the 62 PLH parliamentarians had been in contact with the German foundation and graduated from their training or advanced training courses. "We now have a 39 member Naumann Caucus in the Honduran Parliament" triumphantly proclaimed the project coordinator of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Honduras, Rosbinda Sabillón.[2] As the foundation declared at the time, four ministers and four vice-ministers in the new Zelaya government had a "foundation background." Eight other persons evolving directly from the foundation's "projects' environment" were, under the new president, promoted to directors of the highest state offices. "Among the 165 elected liberal mayors, about 60 evolved out of the milieu of the projects of the Liberal Youth organizations," reported the Naumann Foundation at the time, seeing their young talent "in the starting blocks for political careers." They would seek "in the coming four years of liberal government" to contribute to the "consolidation of this success," particularly by supporting the application of what they saw as the "urgently necessary liberal reforms in Honduras."
Orientation Conflict
A turning point came in this thriving cooperation between Zalaya and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, when the president, in the course of his term of office, turned toward the ALBA international alliance and its political objectives. The ALBA nations seek to extract themselves from the hegemony of the USA and EU and have radically changed their course away from neo-liberal economic models. But this is not to be achieved in alliance with the German foundation. The Naumann headquarters in Berlin was outraged when two of its apprentices were fired, for rejecting measures taken by the president. Presidential Minister Yani Rosenthal was dismissed and Central Bank Director, Gabriela Nuñez had to step down, when she stubbornly refused to accept bank transfers from the ALBA member state, Venezuela.[3] The conflict escalated, when the president announced his intention to call for a referendum. This referendum was to have the people of Honduras decide whether next November, simultaneous with the general (presidential, parliamentary and municipal) elections, there should be a "forth ballot box" ("cuarta urna"). This "fourth ballot box" was to determine if a referendum should be held on the convening of a constituent assembly. Such a step is characteristic of the ALBA nations and is a means used for their determined rejection of neo-liberal economic policies.
Intensified "Consultation"
FDP circles stepped up their efforts to thwart these intentions from being realized. As far back as February of last year, the FDP Vice Chairman and spokesperson for foreign policy affairs, Werner Hoyer, held consultations with Micheletti, President of the Honduran Parliament, at the time, who, following the putsch, is currently president. The objective was an "intensification of the Naumann Foundation's consultation activities particularly in view of the upcoming internal party elections in November (2008, gfp.com)"[4], which were won by former Vice President Elvin Santos. Santos belongs to the "traditional" wing of the PLH, which has consistently cooperated closely with the FDP and its Naumann Foundation. He has announced that should he win the presidential elections, he would withdraw Honduras from ALBA.
Rejection
Policy and strategy advisor Peter Schröder, who has close ties to the FDP, also met from June 13 to 16 with Santos and his followers.[5] The meeting took place under the cover of the Naumann Foundation and was focused on the popular referendum planned for Sunday. In a discussion with german-foreign-policy.com, Schröder declared that it was to be expected, that Zelaya's "cuarta Urna" - a vote on whether to create a constituent assembly - would win the referendum. In the meeting, the participants also agreed, according to Schröder, that Zelaya's opponent Santos would make an appearance on Monday, June 29. The PLH presidential candidate would then publicly demand a rejection of the creation of a constituent assembly that - as was to be expected - would be approved by the popular referendum, Schröder explained. In unison with the majority of western media, the German strategy advisor alleges that Zelaya's "cuarta urna" was only aimed at prolonging the term of his incumbency. Zelaya had rejected these accusations just prior to the coup. "I have no option allowing me to remain in office," he declared in an interview with the Spanish daily "El Pais". "The sole option would be to violate the constitution, which I will not do. (...) I will terminate my term of office January 27 2010."[6]
No Other Choice
In the aftermath of the putsch, the representative of the Naumann Foundation in Tegucigalpa accuses Zelaya of sharing responsibility for the coup d'état. According to his standpoint, Zelaya is not "completely without fault" for these developments, because he provoked both the legislative and the executive with the question of a referendum. The kidnapped president is "more the culprit than the victim" of this development. After all, his approach left the putschists "no other choice."[7]
Anti-ALBA Interventions
Over the past few years, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation has, on several occasions, been conspicuous with its activities against the governments of ALBA member nations, for example by supporting secessionists seeking a drastic weakening of Bolivia's central government (german-foreign-policy.com reported [8]). The foundation has been consistently confronted with public protests against its interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign nations.[9] But these protests are hardly noticed by the German population. The foundation's support for Zelaya's Honduran opponents is but a continuation of its political interference in Latin America.
[1], [2] Ex-Alumni der Stiftung in politischen Spitzenpositionen; www.freiheit.org
[3] Christian Lüth: Opportunismus und 'Kontinuismus'. Der Präsident von Honduras missachtet die Verfassung und seine Liberale Partei; Hintergrundpapier der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung Nr. 5, April 2009
[4] Hoyer trifft liberale Spitzenpolitiker Nicaraguas und Honduras; www.liberale.de
[5] Peter Schröder en Honduras; www.la.fnst-freiheit.org
[6] "El jefe del Ejército desobedeció a su comandante, que soy yo"; El País 28.06.2009
[7] Mehr Täter als Opfer; www.freiheit.org 28.06.2009
[8] see also The Balkanization of South America, Divide and Rule, Neoliberal Networking and Profit and Autonomy
[9] see also Neoliberal Networking 
 
http://www.german-foreign-policy.com/en/fulltext/56260
 

Naumann-Networks
2009/07/13
GUMMERSBACH
(Own report) - Through its "academy", the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation, affiliated with the German Free Democratic Party (FDP) is directing the creation of a world-wide lobbying network. The Naumann-Foundation's "International Academy for Leadership" is located in Gummersbach (North Rhine-Westphalia). One finds among its Alumni not only politicians of the Honduran putschist PLH party but also high-ranking officials and opinion makers from Mexico, Pakistan, Malaysia, and numerous other countries. At the academy, the alumni received training in the development and implementation of strategic concepts and are encouraged to maintain contact with the German foundation even after the seminars - also via internet. The Academy is in constant contact with the Foundation's regional offices abroad, coordinating the FDP's local lobbying. The Naumann networks are already spanning all continents and include several thousand executives, including government officials.
Executives
The Friedrich-Naumann Foundation's International Academy for Leadership (IAF) was established in the early 1990s and is, since 1995, located at the Foundation's Theodor Heuss Academy in Gummersbach in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia. The target groups include local employees of the foundation's regional overseas offices as well as those of partner organizations, but particularly "eminent leaders and multipliers from politics, the economy, science, the media and the security sector." The academy is particularly courting "young leaders from liberal parties" all around the world. The IAF offers seminars covering several weeks, workshops and informational tours while initiating talks in Germany and other European countries with "political parties and associations at enterprises, organisations and projects" but also at government levels. The discussion topics include economics, the media and issues of security.[1]
Strategy and Implementation
The academy distinguishes between various activities depending on the specific purpose. Whereas conferences for think tanks and other "eminent leaders" are expected to provide "new impulses and possible solutions for central questions in terms of world politics," the seminars "for leaders" clearly focus on concrete projects. With the "management level" of foreign parties, media, administration, the judiciary or the military, the IAF is seeking the "creation of liberal development and social and economic political concepts." Another main focus "lies in the strategic implementation planning of existing concepts" based on the respective "requirements in the project countries." The programs provide an opportunity for "the building of multinational bridges and the creation of new levels of contacts," explains the Naumann-Foundation regarding the new opportunities to win influence.[2]
Internet
The academy is focusing particularly on the creation of alumni networks among former participants in its programs. Besides the traditional networking, between the foundation's regional offices, the academy is increasingly using the internet to link up foreign elites. Participants of IAF programs are not only being prepared through online-seminars for courses and information tours in Germany. Subsequent to their participation in a seminar in Gummersbach, they will have the opportunity of joining a "global network on specific themes." The discussions in these online forums will not only be carried out in English but also in Spanish - a clear indication of the foundations primary focus on Latin America.[3]
Eminent Advisors
The work of the Nauman-Foundation in Latin America is currently drawing attention, because the FDP affiliated organization has conspicuously been supporting the Honduran putschists. Their party, the Partido Liberal de Honduras (PLH), is closely cooperating with this German foundation, and several of the foundation's IAF alumni had already been named ministers and vice ministers before the putsch (german-foreign-policy.com reported [4]). Even though the Naumann Foundation has contact to numerous IAF alumni In Mexico, it has not been quite as successful there. The alumni include the chairman of the liberal Nueva Alianza Party's caucus in Mexico City's municipal parliament, a law professor, who has been drafting a constitution for the Federal District of Mexico City, ministry functionaries, parliamentarians and "lawyers in eminent government advisory positions."[5] Balbina Flores, the "Reporters without Borders" Mexico correspondent is also among the IAF alumni.
Opinion Makers
The foundation's networking is not limited to Latin America. In Pakistan, it can rely on about 100 alumni, it is trying to bring together in the FreedomGate Pakistan (FGP) network, among them, the former director of an influential "National Reconstruction Bureau" government agency and a prominent TV moderator. FreedomGate Pakistan began to organize its own seminars, in cooperation with the IAF. "FreedomGate Pakistan, the network of liberal thinkers, is slowly developing into a think tank, supporting liberal ideas in Pakistan," according to the academy.[6] A similar development can be registered by the Naumann Foundation in Malaysia, where IAF alumni are also organizing their own seminars in cooperation with the academy "to share knowledge and practical work experience with fellow citizens working in the fields of politics and human rights."[7]
On all Continents
The networking of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation's "International Academy for Leadership" is spanning all continents linking a growing number of the urban elites to the German state financed organization. In some countries, such as Honduras, the foundation has its connections all the way up into the government. The number of people who have had close contact to the academy, provides an idea of its significance. According to the foundation, "more than 4000 participants from all regions of the world, have already passed through the IAF."[8]
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Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit

Experten zur aktuellen politischen Krise in Honduras


Ebenfalls zu Gast: Der Menschenrechtsbeauftragte der Regierung Honduras, Ramón Custodio López
Ebenfalls zu Gast: Der Menschenrechtsbeauftragte der Regierung Honduras, Ramón Custodio López
(11.08.2009) Seit dem Putsch von Präsident Manuel Zelaya ist das mittelamerikanische Land Honduras in den Schlagzeilen der westlichen Zeitungen vertreten. Im Bemühen um mehr Objektivität und eine differenziertere Darstellung der Ereignisse lud die Stiftung für die Freiheit jetzt vier hochrangige Vertreter aus Honduras zu einem Roundtable nach Berlin ein. Die Experten aus Deutschland und Honduras machten dabei deutlich, dass sich das Land nicht zum Sattelitenstaat von Hugo Chávez degradieren lassen wolle.
Die Gäste repräsentierten die beiden führenden Parteien Honduras, die Partido Liberal (Ramón Villeda Bermúdez, Vorstandsmitglied der Zentralbank) und die Partido Nacional (Octavio Sanchez Barrientos, früherer Kulturminister), sowie den Privatsektor. Sie belegten im Detail, wie der ehemalige Präsidenten Manuel Zelaya durch sein rechtswidriges Handeln zur Verfassungskrise in Honduras beigetragen hat.
Auch werde international immer wieder übersehen, dass kein einziger Vertreter des Militärs ein politisches Amt übernommen habe, die personelle Zusammensetzung des Parlaments sowie die Unabhängigkeit der Gerichte unangetastet geblieben sei und auch die Gewaltenteilung in vollem Umfange funktioniere. Derzeit laufe zudem der Wahlkampf für die Präsidentschaftswahlen im November 2009 an.
  • Zum ausführlichen Bericht über die Veranstaltung auf den Seiten der Stiftung für die Freiheit 
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  • "La fundación Naumann ha cometido un grave error"

    Von Harald Neuber
    Prensa Latina (21.08.2009)
    Embajador hondureño exige posición más contundente de gobierno alemán
    Embajador Roberto Martínez Castañeda Embajador Roberto Martínez Castañeda
    Berlín, 21 ago (PL) El embajador de Honduras en Berlín, Roberto Martínez Castañeda, exigió hoy del gobierno alemán "una posición clara a favor de la Democracia y contra el golpe de Estado, tanto en nombre del país y como miembro de la Unión Europea".
    En una entrevista con Prensa Latina, el diplomático agradeció a Alemania el apoyo al desarrollo y la superación de la pobreza que Alemania y la UE le han brindado desde 1998, cuando el país fue abatido por el huracán Mitch.
    Sin embargo, criticó la actitud reservada del gobierno alemán frente a los acontecimientos políticos en Honduras. El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Alemania habla, hasta ahora, de la "detención" y el "exilio" del presidente electo Manuel Zelaya, señaló.
    "Esa es solo la acción básica que yo llamo el pecado original de este régimen golpista e ilegal", dijo Martínez Castañeda. Si después no hubiese pasado nada más, podría ser esta una visión correcta, añadió.
    "Pero hay oficialmente 12 muertos, personas víctimas de la tortura, cientos de heridos, cientos de personas en las cárceles, y además un pueblo que tiene 57 días de mantenerse en permanente protesta", aclaró el diplomático.
    Actuar como que esto no está ocurriendo, o negar que ocurre sería un grave error porque carece de la perspectiva apropiada.
    "Tratar de resolver o cubrir el problema actual de Honduras con tecnicismos es el equivalente a tratar un cáncer con aspirina.
    "El conflicto regional potencial es demasiado grave", agregó. En particular, en embajador reprochó el apoyo de la fundación alemana Friedrich Naumann, cercana al partido liberal FDP, al régimen golpista.
    "En mi opinión, esta fundación ha cometido un grave error al pronunciarse públicamente a favor del golpe de Estado y del régimen golpista", valoró Martínez Castañeda.
    Los activistas tienen definitivamente el derecho a su opinión y análisis. "Pero desde mi punto de vista no es función de una Fundación formar parte activa de la política local. Aún menos en un momento de contradicción profunda en una sociedad", opinó.
    Esto le causaría un grave daño a la imagen de la Fundación en Honduras, y creo que también en Alemania.
    Es necesario enfatizar que el "pecado original" de ejercer la violencia desde el primer momento, determina totalmente el comportamiento del régimen ilegalmente en el poder, y toda acción que realiza está contaminada por esa violencia y por la ilegalidad, dijo.
    "Es por esto que el respaldo de la fundación alemana Friedrich Naumann es un gran error y, de hecho, respalda a un régimen de fuerza, sustentado en la barbarie militar", subrayó.

    Prensa Latina

    A German “Endowment for Democracy” Coaching Honduran Politicians?

    2009 August 30

    This article is from the website of  “German Foreign Policy.”  It tells of a NED-like organization, the Naumann Foundation, which is associated with the German Free Democratic Party (FDP), which has been providing political advice to Honduran politicians for several years. Among them are Roberto Micheletti, Elvin Santos, and President Zelaya.  In Zelaya’s case, when he made initial plans to have Honduras join ALBA, the Naumann Foundation withdrew support.
    The Naumann Caucus
    2009/06/30
    TEGUCIGALPA/BERLIN
    (Own report) – Right up to the putsch, Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya’s liberalist opponents were being supported by forces close to the German Free Democratic Party (FDP). Zelaya’s rival and current presidential candidate, Elvin Santos, is among them, as well as Roberto Micheletti. Micheletti took over the office of president following Zelaya’s kidnapping, last weekend. During the course of his presidency, Zelaya, who, just a few years ago, had himself been supported by the FDP affiliated Friedrich Naumann Foundation, turned his back on the German organization’s neo-liberal policy. He turned instead toward the ALBA international alliance (”Alternative Bolivariana para las Américas” or Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas) formed around Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba. This has led to hefty power struggles inside his party. His opponents, who up until two weeks ago were being advised by an FDP affiliated strategist, have close ties to the Naumann Foundation. The putsch resolved the conflict to the advantage of the partners in the Naumann Foundation. Following the putsch, the representative of the foundation in Tegucigalpa wrote that Zelaya shares the responsibility for the military coup; he is “more the culprit than the victim.”
    Strategy Consultation
    In November 2005, the presidential candidate of the Liberal Party (Liberal Party of Honduras – PLH), Manuel Zelaya, won the elections. The German political advisor, Peter Schroeder, had already been supporting the PLH in their election campaign, at the time in favor of Zelaya. From 1971 – 1982 Schroeder had worked for the FDP, his last position having been that of director of the “Communication and Service” section in the FDP’s national headquarters. Today he heads his own communications and consultant firm in the vicinity of Bonn, but always works for organizations affiliated with the FDP. At the beginning of his term of office, Zelaya had greatly appreciated Schroeder’s support. “Without the strategy counseling of Peter Schroeder (…) I would not have won the elections” appraised the Honduran president in January 2006.[1]
    With Foundation Background
    At the time, the German liberals held an unusually influential position in the PHL through the FDP-affiliated Friedrich Naumann Foundation. More than half of the 62 PLH parliamentarians had been in contact with the German foundation and graduated from their training or advanced training courses. “We now have a 39 member Naumann Caucus in the Honduran Parliament” triumphantly proclaimed the project coordinator of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in Honduras, Rosbinda Sabillón.[2] As the foundation declared at the time, four ministers and four vice-ministers in the new Zelaya government had a “foundation background.” Eight other persons evolving directly from the foundation’s “projects’ environment” were, under the new president, promoted to directors of the highest state offices. “Among the 165 elected liberal mayors, about 60 evolved out of the milieu of the projects of the Liberal Youth organizations,” reported the Naumann Foundation at the time, seeing their young talent “in the starting blocks for political careers.” They would seek “in the coming four years of liberal government” to contribute to the “consolidation of this success,” particularly by supporting the application of what they saw as the “urgently necessary liberal reforms in Honduras.”
    Orientation Conflict
    A turning point came in this thriving cooperation between Zalaya and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, when the president, in the course of his term of office, turned toward the ALBA international alliance and its political objectives. The ALBA nations seek to extract themselves from the hegemony of the USA and EU and have radically changed their course away from neo-liberal economic models. But this is not to be achieved in alliance with the German foundation. The Naumann headquarters in Berlin was outraged when two of its apprentices were fired, for rejecting measures taken by the president. Presidential Minister Yani Rosenthal was dismissed and Central Bank Director, Gabriela Nuñez had to step down, when she stubbornly refused to accept bank transfers from the ALBA member state, Venezuela.[3] The conflict escalated, when the president announced his intention to call for a referendum. This referendum was to have the people of Honduras decide whether next November, simultaneous with the general (presidential, parliamentary and municipal) elections, there should be a “forth ballot box” (”cuarta urna”). This “fourth ballot box” was to determine if a referendum should be held on the convening of a constituent assembly. Such a step is characteristic of the ALBA nations and is a means used for their determined rejection of neo-liberal economic policies.
    Intensified “Consultation”
    FDP circles stepped up their efforts to thwart these intentions from being realized. As far back as February of last year, the FDP Vice Chairman and spokesperson for foreign policy affairs, Werner Hoyer, held consultations with Micheletti, President of the Honduran Parliament, at the time, who, following the putsch, is currently president. The objective was an “intensification of the Naumann Foundation’s consultation activities particularly in view of the upcoming internal party elections in November (2008, gfp.com)”[4], which were won by former Vice President Elvin Santos. Santos belongs to the “traditional” wing of the PLH, which has consistently cooperated closely with the FDP and its Naumann Foundation. He has announced that should he win the presidential elections, he would withdraw Honduras from ALBA.
    Rejection
    Policy and strategy advisor Peter Schröder, who has close ties to the FDP, also met from June 13 to 16 with Santos and his followers.[5] The meeting took place under the cover of the Naumann Foundation and was focused on the popular referendum planned for Sunday. In a discussion with german-foreign-policy.com, Schröder declared that it was to be expected, that Zelaya’s “cuarta Urna” – a vote on whether to create a constituent assembly – would win the referendum. In the meeting, the participants also agreed, according to Schröder, that Zelaya’s opponent Santos would make an appearance on Monday, June 29. The PLH presidential candidate would then publicly demand a rejection of the creation of a constituent assembly that – as was to be expected – would be approved by the popular referendum, Schröder explained. In unison with the majority of western media, the German strategy advisor alleges that Zelaya’s “cuarta urna” was only aimed at prolonging the term of his incumbency. Zelaya had rejected these accusations just prior to the coup. “I have no option allowing me to remain in office,” he declared in an interview with the Spanish daily “El Pais”. “The sole option would be to violate the constitution, which I will not do. (…) I will terminate my term of office January 27 2010.”[6]
    No Other Choice
    In the aftermath of the putsch, the representative of the Naumann Foundation in Tegucigalpa accuses Zelaya of sharing responsibility for the coup d’état. According to his standpoint, Zelaya is not “completely without fault” for these developments, because he provoked both the legislative and the executive with the question of a referendum. The kidnapped president is “more the culprit than the victim” of this development. After all, his approach left the putschists “no other choice.”[7]
    Anti-ALBA Interventions
    Over the past few years, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation has, on several occasions, been conspicuous with its activities against the governments of ALBA member nations, for example by supporting secessionists seeking a drastic weakening of Bolivia’s central government (german-foreign-policy.com reported [8]). The foundation has been consistently confronted with public protests against its interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign nations.[9] But these protests are hardly noticed by the German population. The foundation’s support for Zelaya’s Honduran opponents is but a continuation of its political interference in Latin America.
    [1], [2] Ex-Alumni der Stiftung in politischen Spitzenpositionen; www.freiheit.org
    [3] Christian Lüth: Opportunismus und ‘Kontinuismus’. Der Präsident von Honduras missachtet die Verfassung und seine Liberale Partei; Hintergrundpapier der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung Nr. 5, April 2009
    [4] Hoyer trifft liberale Spitzenpolitiker Nicaraguas und Honduras; www.liberale.de
    [5] Peter Schröder en Honduras; www.la.fnst-freiheit.org
    [6] “El jefe del Ejército desobedeció a su comandante, que soy yo”; El País 28.06.2009
    [7] Mehr Täter als Opfer; www.freiheit.org 28.06.2009
    [8] see also The Balkanization of South America, Divide and Rule, Neoliberal Networking and Profit and Autonomy
    [9] see also Neoliberal Networking”

  • Fundación alemana apoya régimen golpista en Honduras


    Berlín, 8 sep (PL) El gobierno alemán se negó a criticar a la fundación Friedrich Naumann (FFN), cercana al partido liberal FDP, por su apoyo al régimen golpista de Honduras.

      Hace dos semanas, la diputada federal socialista, Heike HÃñnsel, solicitó al gobierno alemán su opinión sobre ésta política, la cual no recibió la condena del secretario de Estado en el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Alemania.

    En su respuesta de once páginas, Reinhard Silberberg dijo que las fundaciones deben conocer qué consecuencias puede tener su trabajo político en el país de acogida.

    Por su parte, el embajador de Honduras en Alemania, Roberto Martínez Castañeda, reprochó en una entrevista con Prensa Latina el apoyo de la fundación FFN al régimen golpista.

    "En mi opinión, esta fundación ha cometido un grave error al pronunciarse públicamente a favor del golpe de Estado y del régimen golpista", valoró Martínez Castañeda.

    Mientras en Honduras y en Alemania aumentan las críticas por el apoyo que la fundación Naumann le brinda al régimen golpista, el gobierno federal no ve ningún problema en la política escandalosa de esta institución que costea con recursos financieros estatales, dijo la diputada HÃñnsel en entrevista a Prensa Latina en Berlín.

    El gobierno alemán tolera con conocimiento de causa la ayuda abierta a un régimen golpista por parte de una fundación alemana, agregó HÃñnsel.

    La diputada exigió a los partidos gobernantes socialdemócratas y democristianos tomar una posición clara ante el golpe de estado en Honduras.

    lma/hcn 





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