Visas For Hondurans

Diplomacy: The U.S. revoked visas of four Honduran officials, claiming that a coup occurred there. But if they could travel, the Hondurans could educate Americans otherwise. So why are we trying to silence them?

The Hondurans targeted are the very ones whose presence would be valuable to the U.S. if it means to understand the constitutional action that necessitated the removal of President Mel Zelaya on June 28. It followed the Honduran constitution to the letter, yet led to the crisis now in mediation talks.

Hondurans targeted include the chief justice of the Supreme Court and the speaker of Congress plus two other officials.

Visas would let them come to the U.S. to explain precisely what happened, getting the word out to the public. This is important. So far, the media and Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez have crudely defined what occurred as a "coup" and claimed Zelaya's removal was all about his left-wing orientation and revenge by the "ruling class."

U.S., Venezuela to restore full diplomatic ties

The nations' envoys soon will take up their former posts. The move, analysts say, reflects Obama's desire for better Latin American relations and President Hugo Chavez's need to improve his image.

By Chris Kraul and Paul Richter June 26, 2009

Reporting from Bogota, Colombia, and Washington -- In a potentially significant step toward repairing their tattered relationship, the United States and Venezuela have formally agreed to resume full diplomatic relations, the State Department announced Thursday.

Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the two nations exchanged notes that in effect formalized pledges that President Obama and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made at the Summit of the Americas in April to reinstall ambassadors who were expelled in September.

U.S. Ambassador Patrick Duddy and his Venezuelan counterpart, Bernardo Alvarez, soon will resume their former posts in Caracas and Washington, respectively, Kelly said. Each country's embassy had remained open and formal relations were never fully cut.

And the muzzie marxist in chief does this at the same time that fat red SOB Chavez is threatening to close down the last TV station that still has the balls to criticize him.

Clearly Hussein is sending a message of approval to the communist thug, and putting news networks in the US on notice that this can and will happen here too if they don't toe the party line.

Baraka Hussein is completely out of control.

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez threatened to close down an opposition-sided news network, saying the defiant Globovision channel's days on the airwaves will be numbered if its directors don't stand down.

Chavez on Thursday urged executives at Globovision "to reflect" upon the TV channel's tough anti-government stance — or else the station "won't be on the airwaves much longer."

The socialist leader has threatened Globovision before, demanding sanctions against the channel for its alleged violation of broadcast regulations. Chavez told a crowd of his supporters on Thursday that he "doesn't care" if such a decision were to draw international criticism.

Chavez recently called for sanctions against Globovision, and within a week Venezuela's tax agency slapped the network with a $2.3 million fine, prosecutors charged its president in a probe into alleged fraud and lawmakers began investigating the channel for purportedly joining an anti-government conspiracy.

Broadcast regulators also are investigating Globovision for inciting "panic and anxiety" during its coverage of a minor earthquake last month, when station director Alberto Federico Ravell criticized state television for failing to quickly inform its viewers about the severity of the quake.

I’ll have to check, but I’m pretty sure the Chief Justice of the Honduran Supreme Court is next in line for the Honduran presidency, if Micheletti resigns. Micheletti was not the VP when Zelaya was removed, because there was no VP - he had resigned the month before because he wanted to run for the presidency in the fall. The “deal” Connie Mack and others worked out - Micheletti resigns and is succeeded by the next in line, while Zelaya will be allowed back into the country for trial and may reenter politics if found innocent (hardly likely, considering they have him on video raiding the government bank account and putting the money in suitcases!) - would leave the Chief Justice as next in line.

So Obama was being doubly sneaky, because this means that if he Micheletti resigns and he succeeds to the presidency. he won’t even be able to travel to the US. I hate everybody in Obama’s administration.

We are witnessing a hostile takeover of the United States of America from within the White House. It is happening with the complicity of the Established Media. We must speak out to anyone we know who may have a trace of love for the America we thought we knew, and warn them what is happening.

Rather than spending time worrying about birth certificates and Kenyan fathers, we should focus on the Marxist in power.

Most Americans have very little frame of reference to the horrors of Communism, again because of the complicity of media during the Cold War when the liberal press was ideologcally anti-anti-communist.

And of course, Hollywood has made very few movies that place communists as villains. Dr Zhivago and The Killing Fields are about the only ones I can recall.

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