President Zelaya said that dictator Micheletti and coup leaders diverted ALBA money to their coup intentions

16/12/2009 18:07:00TEl Libertador

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President Manuel Zelaya said Monday that the dictator Roberto Micheletti's poor management has over 100 million dollars from Petrocaribe and the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA), which is now being blocked excluding the country.

"They are more than 100 million dollars of ALBA and Petrocaribe Roberto Micheletti spent and diverted for his own intentions as a coup government ," said Zelaya from the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa. 

He said today's decision by Micheletti, to denounce the treaty under which Honduras joined the ALBA "is defiant, because he is denying the poor a cooperation from Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's president. 

"It is an act of pride because they have used money from Petrocaribe and the ALBA treaty approved by (Micheletti) himself " when he was the President of parliament, said Zelaya, who was ousted last June 28th. 

According to Zelaya, "the coup regime has lived these last six months with the money of the ALBA and Petrocaribe." 

"Today, cynically they criticize that and live from it, while various social undertakings  my Government drove with Cuba and Venezuela have been blocked, instead of thanking Chavez for unselfish cooperation to Honduras," he said. 

"Venezuela has never asked for anything in our country, with which Venezuela has only an agreement of solidarity," he said Zelaya in Honduras whose government joined the ALBA, 25th August 2008. 

The de facto regime Honduran Parliament today sent an initiative to realize the withdrawal from the country of ALBA, as the usurper minister  of the Presidency, Rafael Pineda told reporters . 

The decision was made last night at a Cabinet meeting presided by Micheletti, Pineda said. 

The reason to denounce the treaty of accession to that organization led by Venezuela has taken, because "some ALBA countries have not had  respectful treatment (to Honduras) that befits a country," the senior official of the dictator said. 

Pineda said that one reason for Honduras to withdraw from the ALBA is the "disrespect" the president of Venezuela, who also indicated that at some point threatened to invade the country after the removal of Zelaya. 

The ALBA has just held a summit in Havana in which it reiterated its rejection of de facto government in Honduras and its claim to be restored in the Zelaya presidency. 

Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda and St. Vincent and the Grenadines are the ALBA with Honduras.