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Posted on 11/09/2009 12:17:07 AM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Gunmen ambushed a convoy carrying Honduras' top prosecutor, but neither he nor his bodyguards were harmed, police said Sunday.
Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato said Attorney General Luis Alberto Rubi was riding on a northern highway when assailants opened fire Saturday night. Cerrato said no one was hurt. One car was damaged.
He did not give a motive for the attack or say whether it was related to Honduras' four-month political crisis. But he speculated the attack could be an attempt to "provoke unease in the country."
After the June coup, it was Rubi who filed criminal charges against ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
Honduras is also home to violent, well-armed street gangs.
Meanwhile, the interim government in a statement asked members of a commission tasked with monitoring implementation of a U.S.-brokered deal to not take sides or make statements that can complicate the dispute, "much less celebrate that one of the sides has unilaterally broken the accord."
The interim leaders appeared to be responding to comments by former Chilean President Ricardo Lagos, who on Saturday told CNN en Espanol that interim President Roberto Micheletti broke the agreement by unilaterally forming a unity government without Zelaya's input.
Micheletti announced late Thursday that a power-sharing government had been created even though coup-deposed Zelaya had not submitted his list of members.
Zelaya again said Sunday the pact is dead. "That dialogue was deceiving," Zelaya told Radio Globo.
OAS representatives have met with both sides to try to salvage the accord but the two sides have not agreed to more talks.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Obama’s fault
Time to do the same, with better results, to Chavez and the Castros!
Zelaya was tied in with the drug gangs (leftists always are) and, in addition, Chavez has been infiltrating Honduras with Chavistas who are now doubt going to try to provoke something.
The reason Zelaya was not represented on this committee was that he refused to submit a list of suggested representatives and started his usual ravings about his own power. That’s what’s embarrassing the OAS now. Their boy is such a flake it’s hard for them to hide it.
On another front, I wonder if Chavez is heating things up. He was announcing that VZ and Colombia were about to go to war, that is, he said that Colombia was going to attack VZ. It is not, of course, but that is what he will say when instead he attacks Colombia. Things are going badly in VZ and their marginal economy is getting even more marginal, so what better than a war? And I’m sure he’d like to involve Honduras in this at the same time.
Hondo ping
Roberto Micheletti and the Honduran people have truth and justice on their side. Zelaya and his henchmen have Communism, Fidel Castro and Satan on their side.
Go Truth!
I stopped reading at that point in the so-called article.
Chavez is running out of “other peoples money” has to distract the population to stay in power.
The nationalized state run oil production is what has maintained him. That is not enough now.
This is why Obozo through the Export/Import bank loans is trying to “set up” Lula in Brazil. To keep a fellow Commie in power.
It is also why he supported Zelaya in Honduras. To put another Commie in place. From what I have read, Zelaya did not start out Commie, but was turned in office. But how can a gringo like me understand any of this, the cultural divide clouds our perspective on the people, but not my perspective on a Commie.
0ba-Mao and Hillary should be so proud of fostering this leftist violence in Honduras.
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