El pedigrí del embajador USA en Honduras (Granma, August 1, 2009)

The pedigree of the U.S. ambassador in Honduras

JEAN-GUY ALLARD

Hugo Llorens, the U.S. ambassador to Honduras who admitted having participated in meetings to discuss coup plans before the kidnapping of President Manuel Zelaya, is a Miami Cuban-American who migrated to the US through the CIA's terrorist Operation Peter Pan, was director of Andean Affairs of the National Security Council in Washington when the coup against the Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez took place.

Just as Melquiades "Mel" Martínez, leader of the Cuban-American extreme right in the United States Congress, and Eduardo Aguirre, U.S. ambassador to Madrid, to whom he was an advisor, Hugo Llorens came to United States at seven years of age via the CIA's Peter Pan that took more than 14 000 children.

Sowing panic among parents by disseminating false information according which Cuban children were going to be "placed in the Soviet Union", anti-communist groups backed by the CIA, organized the hasty departure from the island to Miami for these children. Many were confined in orphanages where they received a drastically conservative education and ended up in the networks of the extreme right.

After studies at Georgetown University -- just like like Otto Reich -- and the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, and after obtaining a master's degree in National Security Studies National War College, Hugo Llorens made a brief stay in international finance division of the Chase Manhattan Bank before moving to the State Department in 1981.

In his first years of diplomatic activity he went to live in Honduras as an economic adviser, then went to La Paz, Bolivia with the same title. He went under the title of commercial attache in Paraguay during the Stroessner dictatorship and then was in San Salvador under the title of coordinator of narcotics, another of his specialties.

In a sudden leap to another part of the world, the multifaceted Llorens went to the Philippines as a simple consular official. His official activities would leave time for parallel tasks: His biographical notes indicate, surprisingly, that he speaks Tagalog, a Filipino language.

Returning to America, Llorens was United States consul general in Vancouver, Canada for three years, which were dedicated to creating a so-called "multi-agency" station which succeeded in opening the in the consulate itself of offices FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol , Snuff and Firearms, ATF, and Customs Service of the United States, not to mention the Secret Service and the Security Department of State. All this under the theme of combating terrorism and international crime.

NEXT TO ELLIOT ABRAMS AND OTTO REICH

The White House of George W. Bush put the cunning Llorens in 2002 in charge of no less a position than director of Andean Affairs at the National Security Council in Washington, DC, making it the main advisor to the president on Venezuelan affairs.

The coup of 2002 against Chavez happened while Llorens is placed under the authority of the undersecretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs Otto Reich and the very conservative Elliot Abrams.

Reich, also a Cuban-American, anti Castro activist par excellence and protector of terrorist leader Orlando Bosch, was for three years by U.S. ambassador in Venezuela, from 1986 to 1989 and tried to "know the terrain".

From the State Department, Reich gave immediate support to Venezuelan Micheletti, Pedro "The Brief" Carmona, and the military coup.

Otto Reich, a member of the circle of ex-hawks plucked from the White House, remains one of the most influential membias of the mafia wildlife of Miami. His name is now circulating among potential conspirators that led to the disaster of the Tegucigalpa gang.

The Bush administration placed Llorens then as minister counselor in Argentina, for about three years, from August 2003 until July 2006.

From 2006 to 2008, Llorens also held meetings with the Cuban-American Eduardo Aguirre, U.S. ambassador in Madrid, a right-wing fanatic who protected the international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles on his illegal arrival in United States.

Llorens and Aguirre were devoted to encourage and subsidize the campaigns of defamation against Cuba from Miami anti-Cuban groups paid for by the National Endowment for Democracy and other "institutions" that Americans have set up in Spain to organize activities against the island

In July 2008, Llorens was appointed ambassador to Honduras in place of Charles "Charlie" Ford, the character who had the unpleasant task of proposing, at the suggestion of Bush, that Posada Carriles go and live in Honduras.

"Charlie" Ford did this when the ink was barely dry on the inauguration of Manuel Zelaya as president of the Republic. Zelaya replied no, emphatically, and "Charlie" had to inform his bosses that they would have to live with their hot potato [Posada]..

AND THE GENERAL VÁSQUEZ felt "REQUESTED"

The arrival of Tegucigalpa Llorens was not without incident. On September 12, 2008, President Zelaya, referring to the fact that Bolivia had to expel the U.S. representative for his interference, refused to receive the credentials of the new ambassador as a gesture of solidarity.

Eight days later, Zelaya received Llorens and expressed his country's discomfort with what happens to the poorest country in South America. "

A striking development in those days should be noted. On September 22, just as Zelaya was expressing this irritation, the head of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Honduras, General Romeo Vasquez, this same coup general who sustains Micheletti today, told the local press that "there are people interested in deposing President Manuel Zelaya.

The fascist military man said that the president "is facing criticism for agreements he hasmade with Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua," and that "we have been sought out by [those who want to] throw out the government."

Vasquez, who has now ordered his troops to shoot people said with the utmost seriousness "But we are a serious and respectful and we respect the president as our commander and we are subject to general law".

This past June 22, the La Prensa newspaper revealed how the previous night there had been a meeting between the country's political leaders, military commanders and Ambassador Llorens with the apparent goal of "seeking a solution to the crisis." of the popular consultation promoted by Zelaya.

The New York Times confirmed that the then Deputy Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Thomas A. Shannon and Ambassador Llorens, had "spoken" with senior military officers and opposition leaders on how to overthrow the President Zelaya, as the arrest and what authority could do this. "

Hugo Llorens left Cuba with Operation Peter Pan the CIA April 16, 1962 to stay at home after an uncle surnamed Tabio. He lives today in Miami.