Armida Villela de López Contreras, a lawyer and former vice president, has become one of the most visible critics of the ousted Honduran president,Manuel Zelaya.
Edgard Garrido for The New York Times
To Armida Villela de López Contreras, a former vice president, President Manuel Zelaya was ousted because his closeness to Venezuela’s leader had become a threat to Honduran democracy.
Roberto Micheletti beside the new Foreign Minister, Carlos López Contreras. Photo: El Heraldo
The NYT article continues:
She is a founding member of a coalition representing some of the most powerful business and political forces in the country. And she says the coalition members are willing to do, or spend, whatever it takes to keep their country afloat in the face of mounting economic pressure resulting from the rest of the world’s condemnation of the coup.She is the official representative of the Civic Democratic Union, the ultra-right main pro coup group better known as the "camisetas blancas" (white shirts, since they dress in white for their rallies) supporting the suspension of constitutional rights and closing media by the dictatorship of Roberto Micheletti, or the Honduran equivalent of the US Tea Party. Her brother just got arrested for drug trafficking in Colombia and will be extradited to the United States to be judged there. This speaks volumes about the nature of an organization of "respectable" members of the Honduran high society which justified and supported the most heineous actions carried out by the coup government in "defense of the constitution". Does the white stand for cocaine? Or is it simply a façade of "purity" to cover up all the spilled blood by the government it supports?
Charming indeed.
Brother of Armida Villela Meza de López Contreras of the Unión Civica Democrática arrested for drug trafficking in Colombia
voselsoberano.com | Martes 12 de Octubre de 2010 18:57
Red Morazánica de Información
Armida Villela de López Contreras was president of the Consejo Nacional contra el Narcotráfico(National Council against Drug Trafficking) during the government of Ricardo Maduro.
Tegucigalpa October 12, 2010. The brother-in-law of the de facto ex Foreign Minister Carlos López Contreras, Miguel Ángel Villela Meza, was arrested by Colombian authorities accussed of belonging to an international drug and firearms trafficking organization from Central America to irregular groups in Colombia.
Armida Villela Meza de López Contreras in her residence in Tegucigalpa.
Photo: Edgard Garrido, The New York Times.
Villela is brother of Armida Villela de López Contreras, a prominent leader of the Unión Cívica Democrática (UCD), appointed to Vice-Presidency during the government of Ricardo Maduro (2002-2006) and president of the National Council against Drug Trafficking during that administration as well as ex deputy to the Central American Parliament. The Civic Democratic Union (UCD) is a civil organization created to promote the coup d'état against President Manuel Zelaya Rosales.
The detained is also brother-in-law of another prominent member of the Unión Cívica Democrática(UCD) and the OPUS-DEI, Federico Álvarez.
A communiqué published on the website of the Public Prosecutor's Office of Colombia states that "members of the Investigation Technical Agency, CTI, captured in Cartagena (Bolívar) seven suspected members of an organization which exchanged cocaine for firearms with criminal organizations of Nicaragua and Honduras."
The communique states that "during an investigation led by a Cartagena district attorney, agents who collected evidence on the firearm trafficking from those countries to Colombia and on the delivery of cocaine to those countries were infiltrated into that ilegal network."
The Security Minister, Óscar Álvarez, said today to journalists that the arrest didn't take place in Honduras due to distrust on the Honduran judicial system, "it's just that I couldn't be confident that they'd be punished here" the public official literally said.
Villela is described by some newspapers as a businessman from San Pedro Sula who became owner of a football team during the 90's besides other companies.
"The arrested, among whom were a Honduran and a Nicaraguan, will be presented to tribunals before a judge of guarantee control of Cartagena, so that the Public Prosecutor's Office lays delincuency charges against them for traffic, fabrication or possession of drugs, and fabrication, traffic and possession of firearms; and that imposition of security measures is requested", ends the text of the communiqué.
Photo of the Honduran drug baron, Miguel Villela Meza, brother of Armida
Villela de López at the airport. Photo: La Tribuna
Armida Villela Meza and her husband, Carlos López Contreras
Roberto Micheletti, during a rally of the Unión Cívica Democrática (UCD). | AFP
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