Posted on 10/23/2009 9:44:36 AM PDT by La Lydia
Envoys for ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya say talks with the interim government have broken down. Mr Zelaya's team of negotiators had set a deadline of the end of Thursday for the interim government to agree to terms allowing his return to power. However, negotiators for interim leader Roberto Micheletti said that although they had rejected the deadline they were still open to dialogue.
They said they would present a new proposal to Mr Zelaya on Friday. Mr Zelaya, who was ousted in late June, is currently taking refuge in the Brazilian embassy in the capital, Tegucigalpa. His term of office is due to end at the end of January and presidential elections are scheduled for the end of November.
Analysts say the stumbling block is whether Mr Zelaya can return to the presidency ahead of those elections. On Thursday his negotiators set the midnight deadline and called on Mr Micheletti to take heed of international calls for Mr Zelaya's reinstatement. When it expired, negotiator Mayra Mejia said: "We consider the dialogue has been exhausted, we cannot continue to give deadlines."
But Mr Micheletti's negotiator, Vilma Morales, was unmoved by the deadline.
"This committee, having categorically rejected the midnight ultimatum... states that our answer or counter-offer will be presented tomorrow ...
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No me digas ping
There’s no question in my mind that if the situation were reversed, Micheletti would be pushing up daisys by now. I wish he would tell Zelaya, any other meddling governments (including ours), and especially the UN to go to hell.
Micheletti had clearly learned from the Iranains how to handle Obama
Then rapidly enforce the law against Zelaya and the criminals that are sheltering him.
Arrogance and assumption are common traits of dictators (ref; Barak Milhouse Obama).
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I don’t understand what the negotiations could be about?
Isn’t the reason Zelaya was run out is because he wanted to run again, beyond the Constitution term limits?
If that’s the case reinstating him for a month or two seems silly.
Of course if he did return to power he could try to pull a ‘Chavez’.
With elections just over a month away, they need to just get on with it.
At this point any talk of his “returning” to office is surely moot.
Now he should be given the choice of surrendering for trial or smuggling himself right back out of the country and seeking asylum in Brazil or Nicaragua. Or continue with his house arrest at the embassy until they get tired of him and force him to choose one of the other alternatives.
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