Posted on 07/10/2009 7:39:08 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has contacted the US State Department's point man on Latin America to discuss the crisis in Honduras, US officials confirmed.
Chavez called Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon late Thursday "to discuss the current situation in Honduras and the ongoing negotiations mediated by Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias," the State Department said in a statement.
The call came in the midst of San Jose-brokered talks between aides of ousted President Manuel Zelaya and interim Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti.
The talks ended late Friday with no breakthrough.
In a sign of the pair's mutual hostility, the rival Honduran leaders never met face-to-face in a first session Thursday, preferring to speak to Arias separately before flying out of the country the same day.
Chavez said Friday that the negotiations, which are backed by Washington, are a "big mistake that come from the north."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Obama getting his wise council from marxist dictators.
Chavez needs to offer Zelaya a job as his “co-president.”
All those communists down there better not get too used to Obamunism from us. Stuff is going to swing back like Thor’s hammer.
AFP watered down version of the story
Here is another
Forbes 07.10.09 09:30 PM EDT:
Chavez said he spoke to the top U.S. diplomat for the Americas, Thomas Shannon, by telephone for a half hour on Thursday to express his opinion on the matter.
“They have a military base. Why don’t they start some movements there at the military base?,” Chavez said. “Or withdraw all their troops? ... Something. Do something. Obama, do something.”
...Chavez said Micheletti should have been arrested in Costa Rica and that the United States should be putting more pressure on Honduras to return Zelaya to power.
The new American Banana Republic has new friends in the Castros, Chavez, Ortega and some of the other thugs who run Latin America. Thank you Mr. Obama for bringing this once great country to the depths of despair.
No doubt Chavez called to whine......
Hey, Hugo....Bite My Bone!
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