If Liz were Queen

Davis, a lawyer, neo-liberal Democrat and now a lobbyist employed by the D.C. office of global law firm Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, was recently retained by the Business Council of Latin America (CEAL in its Spanish initials) to hawk for the coup interests in Honduras.

Even though Lanny Davis and Noreiga, a former high-ranking U.S. diplomat in Latin American are the same in their relentless pursuit of unbridled capitalism and support for the oligarchical interests in Latin America.

Noreiga has failed to meet the law according to the Lobbying Disclosure Act.  His lobbying fim, Vision Americas failed to indicate on those forms that the Honduran-based AHM is, in fact, a foreign entity. The failure of Vision Americas to disclose that AHM is a foreign entity, as well as its failure to describe the “interest” of AHM in lobbying the State Department and National Security Council is significant, because it effectively shields from public view the full agenda of a foreign entity seeking to affect, presumably, U.S. national security. It remains significant even if the failure to disclose was an honest mistake, or can somehow be justified with tortured legal logic.

IF YOU THOUGHT THAT THE ILLEGAL RIGHT-WING COUP OF HONDURAS ONLY HAD LANNY DAVIS, AND ROGER NOREIGA REPRESENT THEM–you would be wrong.  They have yet another group of U.S. lobbyists hawking for the illegal coup–The Cormac Group.

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MORE ON NOREIGA FROM THE QUEEN:

Noriega was a major force behind the Bush Administration’s polic. In 1996, Noriega helped draft the Helms-Burton law which tightened the 40-year-old embargo on Cuba. [WIKI]

Noriega was the chief architect of the coup d’etat against Haiti’s internationally recognized democratically elected President and all 7,000 elected officials of Haiti.

Noriega, an arch conservative of Mexican descent, worked as a staffer for the Aristide-hating Senator Jessie Helms, who was bent on destroying Aristide, and the Clinton administration, from the very start. Going against all of the principles of democracy, Noriega’s administration, under his direct orders, caused rifts throughout the Caribbean and Latin America that have reverberated throughout the world.

These democratic wounds and pains now have to be healed if the US is really interested in democracy, nation building, constructive diplomatic relations and regional and international cohesiveness.

Noriega’s vindictive obsession with Presidents Aristide and Chavez led him to be the architect of, at the very least, the coup d’etat against President Aristide, and the installation of a brutal, corrupt and shameless interim government in Haiti.

AND THIS IS WHAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS ALLOWING TO UNFOLD FOR HONDURAS?  I thought we had a State Department!