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Posted on 10/31/2009 10:54:34 AM PDT by opentalk
The big news in Honduras is that the good guys seem to have won a four-month political standoff over the exile of former President Manuel Zelaya. Current President Roberto Micheletti agreed yesterday to submit Mr. Zelaya's request for reinstatement as president to the Supreme Court and Congress, and in return the U.S. will withdraw its sanctions and recognize next month's presidential elections.
Mr. Zelaya, whose term would have expired in January, isn't likely to be reinstated, given that the court has twice ruled against his right to remain in office. The Honduran Congress, which voted in June to remove Mr. Zelaya, will then use that high court's opinion to decide if he should be restored to power.
There is a risk that Venezeula's Hugo Chávez and other Zelaya allies will try to buy support for their man and stir other trouble. But Hondurans who have rightly stood up to enormous U.S. pressure to reinstate Mr. Zelaya aren't likely to be intimidated now.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton trumpeted the result as a diplomatic triumph, but it's more accurate to say that it extricated her and the Obama Administration from the box canyon they entered by throwing in with Mr. Zelaya. Hondurans had deposed Mr. Zelaya on entirely legal grounds for threatening violence and violating the country's constitution in an attempt to run for a second term. The U.S. nonetheless meddled and demanded that Mr. Zelaya be reinstated.
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Wrong headline. It’s Obama’s fail all the way.
I certianly hope it turns out this way for the Hondurans. I don’t trust Obama or Shillery to not pull some other strong-arm tactic to get Zelaya back in power before his term was supposed to end.
I wouldn’t get too euphoric just yet. Remember just who and what is pulling the strings nowadays.
Send in Kerry (who fought in Vietnem) /sarc
I agree, He showed his true colors on this. Still hope the State Department is required to release the legal opinion.
It definitely should be Honduras 1, Zero 0.
I had understood that he was going to be reinstated as part of this deal. Couldn’t be happier to realize I was wrong.
Excellent!
“extricated”?
Hardly. It left sHrillery! and O’Bumbler looking tin-eared and flat-footed (I’m trying to be charitable here ;’}
...unless their ambition was to position themselves as enablers of dictators and tyrants, in which case they scored a perfect “A”...
What bullies these people are!
What an incredible sleezy slimey Bully this Administration is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To step on a democratic friend, when the entire country wanted to get rid of their dictator ..............
Maybe Big O and Axelrod and Emanuel just thought the Hondurans were setting a really bad precedent ................
Hey, now there’s something to think about.
I think I need to buy a shirt with the Honduran flag.
Aren’t they a great symbol of standing up against tyranny?
All the world government agencies trying to intimidate and force Honduras to collapse, and they stood strong.
And after Honduras, then who would they go after next?
The struggle continues, but this sure looks like a victory for now.
Do you have information on the original Honduran SC decision (the opinion and any split in the opinion) as well as what the original vote was in the Honduran Congress? If it was overwhelming then, this should work out, but if it was close all the Zelaya/Obama people would have to do is convert a few votes in those 2 bodies.
I don’t like it. It looks to me like the U.S. diplomats were able to browbeat and threaten Honduras enough to force them to “agree to reinstate” the would-be dictator. Yeah yeah they can slow-walk the whole process through January to make it moot, but the fact is that they weren’t able to tell the U.S. to STFU and mind its own business.
That's because almost all of the early reporting relied on sources in Zelaya's camp. They were trying to create reality by asserting it.
Thanks. I thought I hadn’t paid close enough attention when reading the report. Good to know...
The deal was reinstate Z IF Congress approved and of course that was not about to happen. Reinstatement of that clown for even one day would unleash a raft of retribution, IRS audits, enemies jailed, official position changes, etc. as well as further transfer of national wealth. I think what turned it for Hillary was Zelaya’s obvious insanity (Thank G-d). I saw this as an opportunity for her to depart from Zero and start her run against him but she lacks guts. Nothing like Bobby Kennedy going after LBJ. Bottoem line is Zero blinked, as he most often does against real tyrants.
Tough sh*t, you commie-loving RATS!
This little side show really damages Latin American-USA relations and set them back many years. They were already bad enough. El Gringo is not regarded with much love, but with overwhelming suspicion and often hate. Obama pulled every rotten trick against this heretofore most loyal USA ally in the region (This is where we based the Contras operations against Nicaragua, which is possibly WHY Obama fought so hard to suppress and humiliate them.)
Honduras Ping!
Another failed policy of the 0ba-Mao administration!
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