Chavez: US Troops Helped Oust Zeleya

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As if insulting the president wasn't enough, now this bizarre proclamation:

Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he has information that indicates that U.S. troops were involved in removing deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from power and putting him on a plane to neighboring Costa Rica.

Zelaya told Chavez that when he was awakened by armed Honduran troops on June 28 he was taken to the U.S. military base in Honduras and that U.S. generals made the decision to send him to Costa Rica, Chavez said today.

U.S. President Barack Obama doesn’t understand what is happening in the region, Chavez said, and should close military bases in Honduras and Guantanamo, Cuba.

“I think Obama is lost, he’s confused,” he said on his weekly television program. “We’re not asking him to intervene in Honduras. To the contrary, we’re asking him to take the empire’s hands off of Honduras and its claws out of Latin America.”Phone messages left at the U.S. Embassy in Caracas seeking comment weren’t immediately returned.

Zelaya has been seeking support to return to Honduras since his removal. Roberto Micheletti, the former president of the Congress, took over as the acting president.

Obviously we have not been involved in Zeleya's ouster and all indication point to the United States trying to keep him in office. It goes to show that no matter how much Obama tries to curry favor with tyrants, he will invariably fail as all dictators need outside enemies, and as a democracy no one is a greater enemy then the USA.