Posted on 11/06/2009 9:57:49 AM PST by La Lydia
Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in a military-backed coup four months ago, said today that a U.S.-brokered deal to end his nation's political crisis has collapsed. Zelaya pronounced the week-old agreement a "dead letter" after de facto rulers formed a new "reconciliation government" without Zelaya's participation, as the deal had required.
"The accord is a dead letter," Zelaya said on a Honduran radio station...
Under the accord, Zelaya and the man who replaced him, Roberto Micheletti, agreed to let the Honduran Congress vote on whether to reinstate Zelaya to office, as the international community has been demanding. But congressional leaders, who backed the coup, have yet to call a vote. The plan also required the formation by Thursday of a temporary "unity Cabinet" with representatives of both sides.
Just before midnight Thursday, Micheletti announced a new government that did not include Zelaya or any of his supporters.
Micheletti had signed on to the deal as a way to secure international recognition of presidential elections scheduled for Nov. 29....
The failure hands an embarrassing setback to the Obama administration, which dispatched senior diplomats to settle the crisis a but which has also sent mixed signals in opposing the coup...Washington had been firm in supporting reinstatement of Zelaya, but more recently seemed to wobble.
Micheletti said he consulted political parties and a "wide spectrum of civil society" to put together the new government. He did not publicly name the members. He said Zelaya did not propose any names but still could do so.
The army snatched Zelaya from his home June 28 and deported him to Costa Rica. Backers of the coup said they were acting to prevent Zelaya from illegally changing the constitution to allow for his reelection...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Zero = Epic Fail
Yeah!!!!!! Nobama has Noinfluence.
LA Times: “military-backed coup”
This was a lawful removal of a Dictator for Life wannabe lunatic, through the Constitution, Congress, and Supreme Court of Honduras.
Not surprised. Everything ZERO touches turns to crap.
...and that's a very good thing!
It’s the LA Times. Motto: We make it up as we go along, and that is why we are circling the drain.
Somehow I got on an email list for the Honduran communications office.
Their press release says that Micheletti asked his cabinet to hand in their resignations, and he asked Zelaya and the various political parties to offer a list of prospective replacements. The parties, at least, did offer their list of names from which he would choose a new cabinet.
It should be remembered that Micheletti is from the same party as Zelaya, so Zelaya’s party has been represented in the government all along.
Looks like even Obama and his Acorn thugs couldn't whitewash the imposition of a criminal socialist thug on a country which legitimately removed their criminal president.
Maybe Castro, Ortega and that Venezuelan nut job can think of something...
More evidence of Obama’s ineptitude.
Hillary and Nobama got suckered!...............BIGTIME!.........
Hounduras=WIN
Zero=Lose
If the presidency were a monitor, Obama and his administratin would be the blue screen of death.
Dear Los Angeles Times:
The word "Coup" is a contraction of the French Phrase, Coup d'Etat which translated properly means "A blow against the State.
An elected official in a representative democracy is never the State, not in Honduras, not in the U.S., not anywhere.
When an elected official confounds his role as synonimous with the state, he should be removed!
To summarize, what happened four months ago could not have been a "coup!"
Yes sounds like a happy ending.
The Zero was on the wrong side of this issue (for a change /s).
Kudo’s to the Honduran’s who stood up to our jihadist and chief.
US-backed deal failed ping
“”The accord is a dead letter,” Zelaya said on a Honduran radio station... “
Hopefully going the same way as obamacare.
“The failure hands an embarrassing setback to the Obama administration...”
GOOD!!!!
quoting from one of their press releases:
The United States will recognize the results of the Honduran elections whether deposed president Manuel Zelaya has been restored to office or not, or if it occurs after the elections, said Republican Senator Jim DeMint, who said he had “guarantees” concerning this.
“Secretary (of State) Clinton and vice secretary (for Latin America)Thomas Shannon have guaranteed to me that the United States will recognize the results of the Honduran elections, whether Manuel Zelaya has been reinstated or not”, said DeMint in a press release.
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I like it that Jim DeMint is standing up for Honduras. Evidently he was holding up some of O’s appointments until Clinton gave him the assurances he wanted.
Good for Honduras. Obamao is a case of diarrhea, and Honduras is smart enough not to step in it over the Zelaya saga.
Obama’s nominations for Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Arturo Valenzuela (late of Georgetown University), and Ambassador to Brazil, Dr. Thomas Shannon (lately Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs) have been placed on “hold” by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) over objections to the Obama administration’s handling of the coup in Honduras. Senator DeMint said he will release his hold on the confirmations only after the U.S. affirms that it will recognize the upcoming November elections in Honduras. The State Department has affirmed we will recognize the elections, but I have not heard if DeMint lifted his holds. I hope he waits until after the Honduran elections on the 29th.
Thank heavens! Honduras may be spared a dictatorship. No thanks to Hillary “ I hate freedom” Clinton and our Dear Reader.
Thank heavens! Honduras may be spared a dictatorship. No thanks to Hillary “ I hate freedom” Clinton and our Dear Reader.
Thank God, Zelaya is a communist Marxists thug with visions of becoming the Castor or Chavez of Honduras.
Seems that way...he’s accumulating a rather impressive list of failures and still has 3yrs ahead of him.
I’d put DeMint in the category of Good Guy!
I wonder if he has ever considered that the US needed it to have a face-saver.
"Hey, I did my best. Now let me eat my waffle"
Communist coup thwarted, stays thwarted
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