A few days ago I said, incorrectly, that only Chávez could have both the financial means and the motive to finance the violence in Honduras. But, as my fellow blogger, La Gringa, pointed out, the FARC are a very credible alternative. Also, Wall Street Journal columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady claims to have in her possession evidence that the FARC is financing the opposition to Micheletti’s interim government. Now President Micheletti is saying the same thing.

The FARC, a communist guerrilla organization in Colombia, have a financial stake in having socialist ALBA states along the drug route from Colombia to the USA. During Zelaya’s presidency, every few months, a Venezuelan aircraft carrying tons of cocaine would crash in a remote Honduran jungle, or in a banana plantation.

Although I have no data, the number of crashes seem to suggest that many planes would go by undetected, flying low, under the radar, at night. Flying low is dangerous, and in a rural third-world country, flying low at nighttime is triply so. Honduras is mountainous; tall structures and cables don’t have flashing warning lights, but bright orange spheres, that are visible only by daylight.

FARC also has the millions of dollars necessary to finance people to abandon their rural homes, travel to the capital and burn down buildings, and stir violence. Reports are saying people are being paid a thousand lempiras, given food and lodging to participate in the disturbances. FARC is a terrorist organization, unlike Cháez, who is merely an autocrat; they are very well versed in stirring opposition. Zelaya, through Chávez, could easily obtain their help.

Image by Camilo Rueda Lopez, used with a Creative Commons license.