Marvin Ponce, Vice President of the Honduran Congress, says that he's been present at various discussions of political scenarios with politicians and businessmen in which they were discussing that Porfirio Lobo Sosa could be a victim of a coup.
According to Ponce, there are groups within Honduras that want to take advantage of the political destabilization and the internal chaos caused by the "discovery" of police corruption to get rid of Lobo Sosa:
These groups would like to take advantage of the Police crisis and can count on a sector of the Armed Forces with which they could go as far as to stage a coup,
Ponce told El Tiempo. He added:
there's a geopolitical game between Honduran politicians and businessmen.
Ponce was even more forthcoming in what he told El Heraldo's reporters:
In the last few days they have been talking about coups in political circles, that they no longer want Pepe Lobo as president. There is a geopolitical game between the US Embassy and powerful economic and political groups that want a government that serves them.
Ponce went on to allege that the US Embassy is behind an intentional destabilization of the democratic order in Honduras, pointing to the failure of Honduras to qualify for a Millennium Challenge grant and the withdrawal of the Peace Corp.
He also included a recent Washington Post article describing conditions in Honduras as out of control due to drug trafficking in his list of US Embassy efforts to destabilize Honduras.
So two and a half years on from the first coup in Honduras in over 30 years, and there's talk of a coup again.
Why?
Well for one thing, those who carried out the first coup, who did the unthinkable, got away with it, unpunished in any fashion.
Why wouldn't they think about doing it again if they're unhappy with Lobo Sosa?
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