by the El Reportero’s news services
On President Rafael Correa insisted after a meeting on July 15 with José Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), that Ecuador could not accept the return of Honduras into OAS. Insulza is desperately trying to bridge the continuing damaging divide between the US and most of South America over Honduras.
The US has long since taken a pragmatic stance, arguing that it’s sensible to move on and support the new Honduran government. Correa and others insist that the coup d’état simply cannot just be written into the history books and that the region needs to signal strongly that it cannot be tolerated.
Insulza is trying to arrange a compromise ahead of a planned OAS assembly to discuss the issue (tentatively fixed for July 30). Lately, he has been touting the notion of an international ad hoc tribunal to hear the pending criminal charges against the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya .
Prensa Latina: War in Iran motivated by military and fi nancial interests
President of the Academy of Geopolitical Affairs of Russia Leonid Ivashov associated US war plans against Iran with the interests of military, industrial and fi nancial sectors.
After assuring that there is a high probability of a military attack against Iran, Ivashov said in statements to Prensa Latina that all the signs of a major confl ict in the Persian Gulf and in the vicinity of Iran are visible.
To Ivashov, the premises for a confrontation underlie a powerful global clash of two empires trying to determine the global historical processes.
Ivashov defined the center of power of the Rockefeller dynasty (based primarily in the USA), which controls the world’s production, including military production,and the financial empire.
World dominance and control are the main goals of this war that is being promoted by the militaristic neo-conservatives on both sides, said Ivashov.
According to Ivashov, Israel, supported by the US government and the Zionist lobby in Barack Obama’s administration, is the third country interested in a con- fl ict with Teheran.
Role of Church and State comes under spotlight across Latin America
Relations between Church and State were central to key developments across Latin America over the course of the last week.
In Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez reminded the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in no uncertain terms of the principle of the secular State enshrined in the constitution after lacerating criticism of his Bolivarian Revolution from the Cardinal Archbishop of Caracas, Jorge Urosa. Roles were reversed in El Salvador where the Church reminded the government about the secular State by condemning the proposed imposition by congress of Bible readings in schools in a bid to curb violence.
