Hardliners And Lobbyists Muddy US/Honduras Policy.

NYTIMES/
A campaign to lobby for the defacto Honduran government has cost at least $400,000 so far, according to lobbying registration records, and involved law firms and public relations agencies with close ties to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator John McCain.
"It has also drawn support from several former high-ranking officials who were responsible for setting United States policy in Central America in the 1980s and ’90s, when the region was struggling to break with the military dictatorships and guerrilla insurgencies that defined the cold war. Two decades later, those former officials — including Otto Reich, Roger Noriega and Daniel W. Fisk — view Honduras as the principal battleground in a proxy fight with Cuba and Venezuela, which they characterize as threats to stability in the region in language similar to that once used to describe the designs of the Soviet Union."

Conservative Noriega Hired To Lobby For Honduran Putsch.

From NarcoNews.com

Roger Noriega, a former high-ranking U.S. diplomat in the George W. Bush administration, has been hired to lobby for Honduran maquiladores.