Breakthrough near in Honduras crisis: UN

Canada.com - Reuters ^ | July 9, 2009

[don-o]

NEW YORK — The head of the United Nations General Assembly signalled Friday a breakthrough is imminent in talks to resolve the political crisis in Honduras.

Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann spoke in New York as thousands of supporters of Honduras’s ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, held rallies in the Central American country.

“I have a feeling that we are moving in that direction rather quickly,” the former Nicaraguan revolutionary, who is also a Catholic priest, told a news conference at the UN.

Insiders suggested that a timetable had been laid out in which Zelaya, a rich landowner whose leftist policies led him to become a close ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, would return to his country as early as next week. He would be allowed to complete his term as president through to January in return for making clear he has no intention of seeking to extend his rule, they said.

[Gay State Conservative]

A good compromise would be that if this Maoist dictator wannabe stays out of Honduras for the rest of his life a Honduran Army firing squad won't give him a 21 gun “salute”.

[Squantos]

Yep baaaaaad move !

Obama sucks !

[SunkenCiv]

Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann spoke in New York... "I have a feeling that we are moving in that direction rather quickly," the former Nicaraguan revolutionary, who is also a Catholic priest, told a news conference at the UN... Zelaya, a rich landowner whose leftist policies led him to become a close ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, would return to his country as early as next week. He would be allowed to complete his term as president through to January in return for making clear he has no intention of seeking to extend his rule, they said.

Shoot him as he gets off the plane.

[50cal Smokepole]

.... Amen

[GeronL]

No doubt. He doesnt intend to keep his word and you can bet the UN and US et al will support his next move to punish his enemies

[outlawjake]

Yes Zelaya may be allowed back.. and that is not what he really wants.. he really wants to extend his power..

So he will end up being a stooge for a few months.. inevitably he will try something stupid.. should be interesting

[rockinqsranch]

Good post.

[Jeff Head]

Thanks...we need to keep getting the word out that the MSM refuses to do.

...and, OBTW:

TELL BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA THAT HE IS FULL OF IT!

[TigersEye]

Far more Hondurans have demonstrated against Zelaya.

Skip the State Run Media. Find your own news.

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Supporters of Zelaya.

Supporters of Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya shout slogans outside the presidential residence in Tegucigalpa, Thursday, June 25, 2009. President Zelaya's attempt to hold a referendum Sunday on changing the constitution has pitted him against the country's top courts, the attorney general, military leaders and even his own party, all of whom argue the vote is illegal.(Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Zelaya's supporters march in the streets of Tegucigalpa. Zelaya insists on returning to Honduras to finish out the last six months of his term; the new president, Roberto Micheletti, says Zelaya will be arrested if he sets foot in the country. July 3, 2009 LA Times

Supporters of Honduran rule of law.

Demonstrators opposed to Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, protest in Tegucigalpa, Friday, June 26, 2009. President Manuel Zelaya is promoting a Sunday referendum on constitutional changes that has plunged the country into crisis by setting the president at odds with the military, the courts and the legislature that have branded the vote illegal.

A man holds a constitution of Honduras as demonstrators opposed to Honduras President Manuel Zelaya, protest in Tegucigalpa, Friday, June 26, 2009. President Manuel Zelaya is promoting a Sunday referendum on constitutional changes that has plunged the country into crisis by setting the president at odds with the military, the courts and the legislature that have branded the vote illegal. (Photo/Esteban Felix)

Students wearing gags on their mouths protest against Honduras President Manuel Zelaya outside the Venezuelan embassy in Tegucigalpa, Thursday, June 25, 2009. President Zelaya's attempt to hold a referendum on reforming the constitution has pitted him against the country's top courts, the attorney general, military leaders and even his own party, all of whom argue the vote is illegal. (Photo/Fernando Antonio)

Pro-Honduran government supporters in the small town of Choluteca, Honduras Today, July 1, 2009,

This is a picture from a demonstration in support of Honduran democracy and the government of President Michelleti who has defied the OAS and has said there is no chance that the Chavez stooge, former President Zelaya will return. (Picture courtesy of Gateway Pundit )

0bama was helping Chavez orchestrate this attempted takeover by Zelaya.

• WSJ Update: Obama Worked To Prevent Ouster of (Marxist) Honduras President

• Coups, interference, and the shifting standards of Obama; Update: Coup or ‘military impeachment’?

The U.S. State Dept has basically announced that they are an organ of international communism.

State Department Daily Briefing - July 6, 2009

[camp_steveo]

The US cut military aid, and Honduras can’t sustain without it. The US will put Delaya back in place through witholding aid. WTF have we become?

[TigersEye]

Honduras has no need for a face saving concession to the communists. The military has also played no part other than to carry out a lawful order of the SC.

[thescourged1]

Umm...I'll take "F*ck the Shah" for $500, Alex.

[ctdonath2]

Entirely possible.
Having made such a public support of the wrong side, world leaders finally understand what happened and now need a way out. Insisting all the players resume their positions and finish the game according to the rules is the only hope.

...but true natures have been revealed, be it stupidity or malice.

[okie01]

Breakthrough near in Honduras crisis: UN

It wasn't a "coup".

And it's not a "crisis".

Somebody really ought to tell the media. And the UN, the State Department and the Obama administration.

[ConservativeMind]

I hadn’t heard that.

0bama is one f’ed up A-hole.

[ArmstedFragg]

Well, they almost got it right. Let him complete his term from outside the country.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

[myknowledge]

The Honduran people now know this.

They dislike the UN because they know it’s a global government, and to them, the UN is a threat to their sovereignty.

[Perchant]

I don’t think the Hondurans would be stupid enough to agree to anything like this. Precisely who in the Honduran government would have the authority to strike a bargain against the Honduran Constitution? Wouldn’t all branches need to agree with it?

I think this is the left fantasizing and feeling like if they fantasize hard enough it will come true.

[icwhatudo]

How the heck did this radical priest from Nicaragua get to head of the UN????

This is how John Paul II dealt with these types:

Sweating profusely in the Nicaraguan heat on a March day in 1983, Pope John Paul II was forced to demand silence from a crowd of Sandinista hecklers present at an outdoor Mass in Managua. When Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, a Roman Catholic priest who also serves as Minister of Culture in Nicaragua's Marxist government, knelt to receive the Pope's blessing, John Paul wagged his finger in Cardenal's face and chided him, "You must straighten out your position with the church." These episodes, and his own keen observations during an eight-day-long visit to Central America, made a lasting impression on the Pontiff.

He returned to Rome convinced that the time had come to deal firmly with the increasing conflict between the church and radical priests and nuns in Latin America, and indeed in the Third World in general. Most of those priests and nuns, accompanied by flocks of Catholic laymen, march under the banner of liberation theology, a radical attempt to fuse Marxism and Christianity in a struggle against social and economic oppression.