{"id":26731,"date":"2011-02-07T12:37:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T16:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/?p=26731"},"modified":"2011-02-07T14:36:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T18:36:43","slug":"conditions-for-petrocaribe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/business\/conditions-for-petrocaribe\/","title":{"rendered":"Conditions for Petrocaribe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26732\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26732\" title=\"Chavez\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/dno\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Chavez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Chavez.jpg 356w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Chavez-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Chavez-105x113.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chavez. Photo credit: Heraldsun.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>United States embassy officials in Tegucigalpa, Honduras believe that Hugo Chavez may have asked the government of that country to meet certain conditions in order to benefit from Petrocaribe, a confidential cable leaked by whistleblower site Wikileaks has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged conditions stipulates that Honduras should remove the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from any terrorist lists or publicly acknowledge it as not being a terrorist organization and for Honduras to attend an ALBA summit in Caracas.<\/p>\n<p>This brings into focus what conditions Chavez may have placed on other countries, like Dominica, that have signed to Petrocaribe and ALBA .<\/p>\n<p>According to the cable, which was released on January 29, embassy sources inside Honduras\u2019 Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that during his January 16, 2008 visit to Tegucigalpa, Chavez asked President Manuel Zelaya to either remove the FARC from any terrorist lists or acknowledge it as not being a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>The cable alleges that\u00a0 Zelaya was in the process of consulting his respective ministries and no consensus was reached when the matter went public via a Honduran newspaper. The newspaper quoted Vice Foreign Minister Enrique Reina as saying that the Honduran government has condemned all terrorist attacks, but that in the case of Colombia, they regard the FARC as an internal matter that the Colombians need to resolve themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately after the newspaper publication the Honduran government went on the defensive and denied that Reina\u2019s pronouncements were not made in response to Chavez and stated that it does not have its own list of terrorist organizations, but bases its actions on both the UN and United States Government lists.<\/p>\n<p>Embassy sources also told them that when Chief of Defense Romeo Vasquez Velasquez was asked his opinion on the matter he said that since the FARC does not threaten Honduras&#8217; borders, it is considered an internal threat and not a terrorist organization. However, when approached directly and publicly, Velasquez said that Honduras worked only with the UN terrorist list and the newspaper article only wanted to stir up trouble with the United States, the cable alleges.<\/p>\n<p>Embassy officials also believed that Chavez pressured Zelaya into sending a representative to the Sixth ALBA Summit if he was serious about getting a Petrocaribe deal. The summit was subsequently attended by Honduran Foreign Minister, Milton Jimenez as an observer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe doubt it is mere coincidence that Chavez did not sign the draft Petrocaribe deal until the conclusion of the ALBA summit, when he could have signed it during his January 16 visit,\u201d the cable pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>ALBA, in English \u201cBolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America\u201d was proposed by Chavez as an alternative to Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and was first signed between Venezuela and Cuba in December 14, 2004. Dominica became a member in January 20, 2008. Currently there are eight member states in the Caribbean and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Petrocaribe is a Caribbean oil alliance with Venezuela to purchase oil on conditions of preferential payment and was launched in 2005. Twelve of the fifteen members of CARICOM plus Cuba and the Dominican Republic signed the agreement on 7 September 2005.<\/p>\n<p>FARC is considered a terrorist group by both the US and the UN and is the oldest insurgent group in the Americas.\u00a0 It was established in 1964.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States embassy officials in Tegucigalpa, Honduras believe that Hugo Chavez may have asked the government of that country to meet certain conditions in order to benefit from Petrocaribe, a confidential cable leaked by whistleblower site Wikileaks has revealed. 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