Posted on 07/03/2009 3:04:36 AM PDT by angkor
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, July 2 -- Honduran leaders who supported the coup against President Manuel Zelaya maintained a defiant stance Thursday in the face of international pressure, as diplomats conceded that a quick, painless resolution to the regional crisis might not be possible.
Officials in the new Honduran government led by interim President Roberto Micheletti said that they were prepared to hunker down for weeks or months and that they could survive economic sanctions, diplomatic isolation and even the condemnation of their closest ally, the United States, which has played an outsize role in the history of Honduras for a century.
Micheletti, however, said he was open to one compromise: moving presidential elections up from November to an earlier date in a bid to soften outside condemnation of the coup and keep Hondurans from turning toward violence.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
"The U.S. Embassy has broken off all contact with the Micheletti government. U.S. representatives here had worked for months to broker a compromise between leftist Zelaya and his conservative critics, but officials say they did not know a coup was about to erupt... Zelaya was ousted because he was staging a referendum that could have allowed him to seek a second term in office."
Not to mention that under Honduras law, the "referendum" was totally illegal and Zelaya had been repeatedly warned against it by the Honduran courts and legislature.
You have to wonder how much the US was involved with this guy from the start. He was elected as a (relative)conservative 4 yrs ago but suddenly began to turn left, finally becoming nothing but a tool of Chavez. The US obviously was aware of this and approved; it is clearly apparent that US Latin American policy is now simply a vehicle for carrying out the plans of Hugo Chavez.
>>>> it is clearly apparent that US Latin American policy is now simply a vehicle for carrying out the plans of Hugo Chavez. <<<<<
One must wonder what in God’s name is driving U.S. foreign policy these days.
I forgot to mention that sometimes stated U.S. foreign policy is not really what it appears to be on the surface.
But with Zer0 in command, it’s hard to tell whether we’re now taking Latin American policy leadership from Chavez and Cuba - and whether that’s through naivete or ignorance or actual enthusiasm for Chavez - or perhaps (and very unlikely) that this is a very sophisticated game of diplomatic poker, and that our State Dept. does in actuality support the ouster of Zelaya.
There should be no doubt Obama is a Marxist and totally supports strong-man dictatorships such as Chavez and Castro.
Obama himself is acting like a dictator and would like to change American laws to a point he would be president for life.
Obama has taken personal control of large industry and banking in the U.S.
That is what they call in the F.B.I. "a clue."
I’m afraid that God has very little to do with it.
Standing up for their personal freedoms and liberties against the takeover of their government by a would be Leader For Life.
How DARE they be so defiant!
The ComPost is outraged!
>>> WHAT COUP? <<<<<
Read past the first sentence.
>>> WHAT COUP? <<<<<
Whoops, sorry. Wrong thread. Nevermind.
>>>> You have to be kidding.... That is what they call in the F.B.I. “a clue.” <<<<<
Well, let’s look at another “clue.”
I have personally witnessed a very similar event abroad where every *public* utterance by the State Dept. was in condemnation of the “coup”, but in private almost everyone conceded that the “victim” was a corrupt and feckless neer-do-well who had to go.
I don’t doubt that in his socialist heart, Zer0 truly supports Zelaya. But I am talking about the rest of the U.S. foreign policy establishment and particularly the local diplomat in Honduras.
yes, and as the devil is...Obama is a smooth talking, lying marxist. He doesn’t really want to dominate private industry, it is being done only out of neccessity for a short time...right!
The Supreme Court of that nation ruled against it (properly so) and the President was planning to use the Executive Branch to implement it anyway. That's when the Supreme Court and a majority of the legislature called for the military's assistance...and they gave it, in support of the Hionduras constitution which Zelaya was attempting to subvert.
And so the telling thing about what happened in Honduras is this: EVERY Marxist in the Western Hemisphere is against it, including the Marxist Obama who is arm-and-arm with his marxist friends, Chavez and Castro on this.
That tells you that what the Honduras military did at the request of its Supreme Court and w/support from its legislature was correct, and avoided a move by Marxists to circumvent the Honduran constitution and entrench marxism in Honduras.
Bravo for the Honduras Supreme Court and military...and down with Obama's marxist dogma, policies, and ideology!
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If our State Department covertly supported the ouster of Zelaya - well, for one thing, there’d be no reason for them to be “covert” about it - Obama wouldn’t have called out the big guns in his arsenal, the international NGO’s like the World Bank and the OAS, to threaten and punish Honduras. This is not symbolic and it’s not an elaborate game.
Obama is attempting to extend and impose a Marxist program throughout Latin America and he is willing to crush any country that gets in his way. The only question is whether Chavez is running Obama, or Obama is running Chavez in this matter.
>>>> If our State Department covertly supported the ouster of Zelaya <<<<
We are clearly talking about different things.
I am saying that (a) foreign policy is often a subtle game not played in black and white terms on the public stage, and (b) oftentimes ***individual*** local diplomatic staffers will have opinions that are the polar opposite of the public position taken by the State Dept. (and most certainly by the White House).
That’s my clarification, and I know it to be true as a matter of fact, experience, and observation.
Please don’t critique it again unless you understand what I’ve stated above and have the facts to refute that without adding your personal “spin” and “interpretation” of what I’ve clearly stated.
Thanks.
The US national media didn’t call 1998 an “attempted coup” in the US.
There was no coup in Honduras. As a matter of fact, using “coup” in this matter smacks of racism; as if that’s all these tiny Latin American countries know how to obtain power.
One must wonder what in God’s name is driving U.S. foreign policy these days.
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>>> There was no coup in Honduras. <<<<
Maybe. Maybe not.
The elected government and courts were dealing with Zelaya’s improprieties and planning to get rid of him.
When the Army stepped in it made things a little messy.
But not wrong. He had to go, and he was being escorted to the exit when the bouncers stepped in.
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