Former Honduran Minister: U.S. Undoubtedly Played Central Role in Zelaya Coup

After masked soldiers kidnapped the democratically elected president Manuel Zelaya on June 28, 2009, and flew him to a U.S. military base in Honduras and then onto Costa Rica, hundreds of Hondurans, fearing for their lives, went into exile. Zelaya’s former minister of culture, Rodolfo Pastor Fasquelle, was one of them. After he fled Honduras, Fasquelle joined Harvard University as a visiting professor where he taught courses on Latin American history. Now back in Honduras, Fasquelle says he is certain the United States helped engineer the coup. Democracy Now! spoke to him in Tegucigalpa over the weekend while reporting on the return trip of Zelaya to Honduras

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