Hugo Chavez
Venezuelan President and ally of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya who opposed the 2009 Honduras coup.
Hugo Chavez was the Venezuelan President. He was a close ally of Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president of Honduras, and a "nemesis" of the United States. Chávez stated he would consider it an "act of war" if there were hostilities against his diplomats and put the armed forces of Venezuela on alert.1
General Daniel Lopez Carballo justified the coup against Zelaya by stating that Chávez would eventually be running Honduras by proxy if the military had not acted. Zelaya had been in the process of forming a friendship or alliance with Chávez, which could have led to the United States losing its airbase in Honduras (Soto Cano Air Base). Chávez reportedly had close ties to Iran and offered military support to Iran in the event of a war with the United States.1
Sources
- Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩
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