Posted on 12/20/2010 8:05:48 PM PST by GlockThe Vote
"The last year and a half of the [President Manuel] Zelaya Administration will be, in my view, extraordinarily difficult for our bilateral relationship. His pursuit of immunity from the numerous activities of organized crime carried out in his administration will cause him to threaten the rule of law and institutional stability."
Charles Ford, U.S. ambassador to Honduras, May 15, 2008
Lots of hypotheses have been floated to explain why the Obama administration went to such extremes last year to try to force Honduras to reinstate deposed president Manuel Zelaya.
Now the release of two WikiLeaked cables from the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa strengthens one of those theories: that the U.S. knew Mr. Zelaya was a threat to democratic Honduras but had decided the country should tolerate his constitutional violations in the interest of realpolitik.
Practically speaking, Hugo Chávez was the man to please. After a decade in power, the president of Venezuela's influence around the region was notable. George W. Bush had clashed with him. Barack Obama was out to prove that they could get along, as evidenced by the warm handshake at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain in April 2009.
Honduras offered a bonding opportunity. Mr. Zelaya was a protégé of Mr. Chávez. Standing up for him as democratically elected was a way to score points with Latin America's hard left.
At a 2008 conference in Caracas, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez hugs then-President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras.
.But Honduras wasn't willing to play the sacrificial lamb. When its other branches of government removed him from office last year, it caught Hugo Llorens, the U.S. ambassador, flat-footed. Saving face became the top priority.
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I am pinging freepers who posted on last year’s Honduras threads.
You DO NOT want to miss this!
Thanks for the ping!
I just pinged a bunch of freepers from last year’s Honduras threads.
What on earth were Ubama and his “mainstream” Democrat media shills up to last year with all the lies about a “coup”?
Mystery solved.
LOL. YW, but I was pinging musicman to your post.
Thanks! Great to see the actual proof of what we all knew.
I suspect something even worse than these revelations: A connection with the Drug Cartel.
. . . Or another line of Coke.
If Article 239 named an official who was supposed to determine whether the violation had occurred, then all that would be needed would be to subvert that official. By being non-specific, then it allows the removal to be done when it's generally seen as having been violated.
Due to computer trouble, I cannot currently access the ping list. Hope to rectify soon.
For those unable to see the whole article see this link.Click here
The article refers to two classified documents;
AMBASSADOR CHARLES A. FORD
There might be better links or sites that have this info, but these seem to work for the time being.
Bama is a commie. No doubts left.
Yep, I pushed every button I knew how to push to stop that charade. Called Congressmen, Senators, posted revealing articles from foreign papers here on FR and tweeted the links to the papers on Twitter.
In the end, the efforts did a lot to discredit Obozo and crowd. That is why they finally relinted. After Demint and his Congressmen friends went there.
I learned to love the people of Honduras. Some day if I get to where I can, I would love to go visit there.
That was the best cartoon for the event. It said it all. Loved it. And it was so true, not a joke.
The OAS has decended to be a tool of a pack of Leftist Dictators.
YES!!!!!!!
Is there an Obama/StateDept/Marxists/Moslem Axis Ping list?
Don’t know - but regardless - I AM SO SICK OF THIS ADMN IT IS NOT FUNNY. I SEE AND HEAR OBAMA AND I WANT TO PUKE AND VOMIT.
FFFUUUBBOOOOO
It was a joke.
NOBODY could keep up with all the ties.
F’n impossible.
You would have to be on the job 23/6/368!
Right, Janet?
I try and am accused of havng mental problems by some of those around me for knowing so much.
I post on other sites and am accused of the same thing, yet none can ever refute me
I feel the same way and before that episode Honduras wasn't anywhere on my radar.
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