disinfozone/The_Info_Web
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

vault backup: 2026-05-13 21:30:09

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
disinfo.zone 2026-05-13 21:30:09 -04:00
parent c9e05e3e65
commit 44b8a8e76e
1883 changed files with 23264 additions and 5496 deletions
Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

16
10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Hugo Chavez.md Normal file
View file

@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
---
category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- Politician
- Military
summary: "Venezuelan President and ally of ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya who opposed the 2009 Honduras coup."
---
[[Hugo Chavez]] was the [[Venezuelan President]]. He was a close ally of [[Manuel Zelaya]], the ousted president of [[Honduras]], and a "nemesis" of the [[United States]]. Chávez stated he would consider it an "act of war" if there were hostilities against his diplomats and put the armed forces of [[Venezuela]] on alert.[^1]
[[General Daniel Lopez Carballo]] justified the coup against Zelaya by stating that Chávez would eventually be running [[Honduras]] by proxy if the military had not acted. Zelaya had been in the process of forming a friendship or alliance with Chávez, which could have led to the [[United States]] losing its airbase in [[Honduras]] (Soto Cano Air Base). Chávez reportedly had close ties to [[Iran]] and offered military support to [[Iran]] in the event of a war with the [[United States]].[^1]
---
### Footnotes
[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.