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Posted on 10/02/2009 5:43:20 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
A spokesman for a U.S. Senator says the interim president of Honduras vowed that civil liberties would be restored in the troubled Central American country no later than Monday.
Wesley Denton tells The Associated Press that South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint received the assurance in a meeting in Honduras with interim President Roberto Micheletti.
DeMint led a congressional delegation that met with Micheletti on Friday.
Denton says the delegation raised concerns with Micheletti's special decree limiting civil liberties including the right to assemble.
He said the interim president said the freedoms would be restored by or on Monday.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Four U.S. Republican lawmakers met with Honduras' interim president on Friday in a challenge to Washington's condemnation of the coup that brought him to power.
The brief, amicable visit with the leaders of the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya highlights a divide in Washington, where the Obama administration is working to reinstate Zelaya but many conservatives side with the government installed after soldiers arrested the president in his pajamas and flew him into exile.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint, the leader of the delegation, said before the trip that even calling Zelaya's overthrow a coup is "ill-informed and baseless."
DeMint and three representatives - Aaron Schock and Peter Roskam of Illinois and Doug Lamborn of Colorado - smiled for photographs in a book-lined office of the stately presidential palace with interim President Roberto Micheletti. They slipped out of the palace through a rear entrance, avoiding dozens of journalists waiting for a planned news conference that never materialized.
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I thought kerry stop this delegation in it’s tracks yesterday, what happened. I hope the Senators get the word out. obumber backing a dictator over a constitutional government added to the Olympic debacle could exact a huge political toll on the rilling party.
Kerry was all words. They went. They calmed the situation. While Obama tried to add flames to it.
Thanks.
Any updates?
Yep.
BTTT
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