by El Libertador
The President Porfirio Lobo Sosa has appointed retired General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez as manager of the state company Hondutel. Vásquez is also accussed of being the material perpetrator of the coup against President Manuel Zelaya Rosales in June 2009.
The general, who was in recent days deposed from his charge and starts his retirement from now, assumes straight afterwards the general management of Hondutel, amid strong criticism from the public, since he is identified as responsible for human rights violations during the dictatorship of Roberto Micheletti, and intelligence spy phone tapping in the same context.Vasquez was relieved of his post by President Lobo Sosa, putting in place General Carlos Cuellar, a former inspector general of the military institute, also linked to the rupture of constitutional order in the previous June, when an elite command of the army kidnapped and extradited the then president, Manuel Zelaya, to Costa Rica.With the arrival of the former military leader, human rights organizations and the Popular Resistance conclude wiretapping would increase, thus causing the return of the "national security doctrine" that in the 80s, which caused the disappearance of more than 180 people by the security agencies of the State, without so far, having the perpetrators of the killings tried in Court.
The general, who was in recent days deposed from his charge and starts his retirement from now, assumes straight afterwards the general management of Hondutel, amid strong criticism from the public, since he is identified as responsible for human rights violations during the dictatorship of Roberto Micheletti, and intelligence spy phone tapping in the same context.
Vasquez was relieved of his post by President Lobo Sosa, putting in place General Carlos Cuellar, a former inspector general of the military institute, also linked to the rupture of constitutional order in the previous June, when an elite command of the army kidnapped and extradited the then president, Manuel Zelaya, to Costa Rica.
With the arrival of the former military leader, human rights organizations and the Popular Resistance conclude wiretapping would increase, thus causing the return of the "national security doctrine" that in the 80s, which caused the disappearance of more than 180 people by the security agencies of the State, without so far, having the perpetrators of the killings tried in Court.
And The Coup Goes On.....
Romeo Vasquez Velasquez was fired from his job as commander of the Honduran Armed Forces by President Porfirio Lobo Sosa, reportedly because of international pressure. He formally left the position on February 26, officially retiring from the Armed Forces. How strange, then, to see him reinstalled in the government of Porfirio Lobo Sosa as the new head of HONDUTEL, the troubled national phone company, less than two weeks later.
Vasquez Velasquez wasted no time in thanking Lobo for the appointment and immediately announcing the appointment of Jesús Arturo Mejia, a former employee of the Public Prosecutor, Luis Rubi, and a supporter of Ricardo Alvarez, the head of the Nationalist Party and Mayor of Tegucigalpa, who is already running for President, to be the head of the HONDUTEL computer services division. Vasquez Velasquez noted that as a military officer, he had lots of experience in administration, and that when he was head of the Institute of Miltary Planning (IPM in Spanish), the military prospered.
Myrna Castro, the "fashion is culture" de facto Minister of Culturehas been given an appointment in the High Court of Auditors (TSC in Spanish), the very organization that will investigate the disappearance of 157 million lempiras in funding during her tenure in Culture.
Arturo Corrales, one of Micheletti's negotiators for the Tegucigalpa San Jose Accord, is Porfirio Lobo Sosa's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation. As such, he is in charge of the process by which the National Plan, Lobo Sosa's 28 year economic and social development plan for Honduras, is formulated.
Vilma Morales, another of Micheletti's negotiators, was appointedthe head of the Banking and Insurance commission (CNBS in Spanish).
Clearly there either isn't enough international pressure, or that isn't the reason Romeo Vasquez Velasquez was replaced. The golpistas continue to find prominant places in Porfirio Lobo Sosa's government.
Vasquez Velasquez wasted no time in thanking Lobo for the appointment and immediately announcing the appointment of Jesús Arturo Mejia, a former employee of the Public Prosecutor, Luis Rubi, and a supporter of Ricardo Alvarez, the head of the Nationalist Party and Mayor of Tegucigalpa, who is already running for President, to be the head of the HONDUTEL computer services division. Vasquez Velasquez noted that as a military officer, he had lots of experience in administration, and that when he was head of the Institute of Miltary Planning (IPM in Spanish), the military prospered.
Myrna Castro, the "fashion is culture" de facto Minister of Culturehas been given an appointment in the High Court of Auditors (TSC in Spanish), the very organization that will investigate the disappearance of 157 million lempiras in funding during her tenure in Culture.
Arturo Corrales, one of Micheletti's negotiators for the Tegucigalpa San Jose Accord, is Porfirio Lobo Sosa's Minister of Planning and International Cooperation. As such, he is in charge of the process by which the National Plan, Lobo Sosa's 28 year economic and social development plan for Honduras, is formulated.
Vilma Morales, another of Micheletti's negotiators, was appointedthe head of the Banking and Insurance commission (CNBS in Spanish).
Clearly there either isn't enough international pressure, or that isn't the reason Romeo Vasquez Velasquez was replaced. The golpistas continue to find prominant places in Porfirio Lobo Sosa's government.
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