Democracy and Peace in Honduras: The Dolce Vita of the Honduran Coup Elite

The Opulence they deny to Hondurans and to the World.

The Honduran coup jet set and can not fly to Miami

Por Andy Robinson By Andy Robinson
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San Pedro Sula, Honduras

  The decision by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to withdraw visas to leaders of the coup regime in Honduras, most of them senior members of Honduran society, has caused panic in the classes of frequent flyers  in the Miami Tegucigalpa route.

. The arrest of millionaire Adolf Facussé- member of one of the richest families in the country, which was taken from a plane after landing in Miami from Honduras by armed police and deported, is a matter of stage fright in luxury malls in San Pedro Sula . Y no hay nada más mosqueante que ver que Manuel “Mel” Zelaya -el presidente del pueblo- ha podido colarse por la frontera miltarizada gracias al apoyo logísitico de Brasil mientras tú -pasajero de business elite- no puedes ni cruzar hasta South Beach, ni hablar de Copacabana. And there is nothing more daft to do than to see that Manuel "Mel" Zelaya-president of the country has been able to sneak across the militarized border through the logistic support of Brazilian  while you business-elite-passenger can not even cross to South Beach, less  talk of Copacabana. All because of  the alliance between these disguised communists  Lula and Obama.

Take the case, for instance the trio of coup MPs  and daughters of great fortunes in Honduras, known as the "Powerpuff Girls" as the opposition newspaper El Libertador reports. This is Lizzy Flores, Marcia Facusse Andonie Villeda-niece and cousin, respectively of Adolfo Facussé, and Mirna  Castro, all members of the elite families who live halfway between Miami and Tegucigalpa.  Marcia acknowledged last week that her U.S. visa was withdrawn .Mirna and Lizzy  run the same luck.

The three super-powerful members of the Honduran-jet set -- a dozen families who control the economy and demand the last word in political management, which simply can not survive without shopping visits, medical care, or meetings in Cuban lobby in Miami. And not only were they denied access to Ocean Drive or Little Havana.  With the latest sanctions Spanish, Calle Serrano is also forbidden land to the street Genova ...

  As El Libertador reported in its latest issue the three deputies have just made a world tour, including a stay at Grand Hotel in Moscow, where the three suits proved impossible to wear fur in the tropical climate of Honduras.  They were also photographed while receiving massage and pedicure in Beijing.  "Marcia, Mirna and Lizzy needed to relax and get stress out of their back after having to deal with a people like the dirty and peasant mob of Honduras, stated ironically the newspaper.  Now shopping trips will be much more difficult.

The three super-powerful are the most photographed faces of the coup.  Marcia Facussé Andonie Villeda, is the niece of the great investor and agrobusiness magnate Miguel Facusse , real power and one of the characters behind the coup, Uncle Mike to  Marcia.  Member of the Liberal Party, Marcia is one of the closest collaborators of the de facto president Roberto Micheletti, a perfect link between the government and Uncle Mike.

  Lizzy Flores, daughter of former President Carlos Roberto Flores-landlord and owner of the newspaper La Tribuna where Lizzy writes columns in defense of the coup.  She is the wife of another Magnate: Freddy Nasser. After accompanying Marcia and Lizzy on their world tour, Mirna canceled the financing of the Archaeological Heritage of Honduras, the project "Portraits of the people" and the Ethnic groups in Honduras, as she considered it  "too populist".

Marcia Facusse is the most powerful of the superpowers and can hardly bear to live without visits to the Republican right in Miami. She used her charms to interbreed the two titans of the Honduran oligarchy- Ferrari-Facussé to marry Jose Manuel Villeda Ferrari, nephew of the privatized telecommunications giant in Honduras, Rafael Ferrari.  Ferrari's Various channels have ensured a perfect cover for Micheletti in which the great anti-coup demonstrations never come on TV.  She is Cousin of Carlos Flores Facusse, so Marcia shares with Lizzy Flores blood and a weakness for shopping malls. Durante su estancia en Moscú el mes pasado Marcia pudo pasear un vestido de pieles cuyo valor -según el Libertador- asciende a unos 2.000 dólares. While in Moscow last month Marcia was able to  take a walk with a fur dress -valued according to El Libertador, in about $ 2,000.

  Honduras, incidentally, is the second poorest country in Central America and the most unequal.  65% live in poverty and the richest 20% consumes 75% of goods and services.  Moreover, the marginalization grows like wildfire right now, due in part to the economic impact of the coup.

There is also the fourth girl overpowering the coup regime, although she gives less play to the press from the heart.  It is the vice chancellor' of Michelett's cabinet-- Marta Lorena Alvarado, a prominent member of the Opus Dei, who authored a bill, vetoed once pro Zelaya, which prohibits the emergency contraceptive pill.  Martha was the protagonist of a documentary Spanish conservative Channel   Intereconomia in which-with a speech still stuck in the cold war, insisted that she felt proud to lead the fight against communism.
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  But America is no longer the anti-communist bulwark it was with Reagan and Bush.Lorena Alvard also lost her visa last week after a meeting with the ultra-right  Congressman Ileana Ros Lehinter in Miami in Coral Gables, high standign Cuban Hispanic neighborhood in Miami.  Losing a visa "does not take my sleep away" Marta insisted Tuesday in Tegucigalpa, without seeming to be entirely convinced.