Obama Sanctions Hondurans, Consoles Zelaya, and Props Up Chavez

Pajamas Media ^ | Sept. 5 | Dan Miller

[AJKauf]

According to an article in the Los Angeles Times on September 4, the United States has announced a major cutoff in aid to Honduras, saying that it had terminated “more than $30 million” which had previously been suspended. The announcement added that:

"It may eliminate as much as $200 million more if Honduras does not restore democratic rule and reinstate President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a coup."

In addition, the United States also threatened on September 3 to “withhold recognition of the new president who emerges from elections scheduled in November” unless Zelaya is reinstated prior to the election. Mr. Zelaya understood Secretary Clinton to have been more emphatic. He said that he

"appreciated that Mrs. Clinton had “made it clear” the U.S. wouldn’t recognize any government arising from elections held by the interim government."

The United States had earlier started revoking visas “of members and supporters of the de facto regime. It had previously canceled four officials’ visas and stopped issuing new tourist and business visas to Hondurans.”

The situation is confusing. The “more than $30 million” termination of aid announced on September 3 probably refers to a further but undefined step with regard to the earlier “suspension” of aid noted on the same day by a State Department spokesman as “about $35 million in aid,” which “had been temporarily suspended after the coup.”

The earlier aid “suspension” apparently occurred on July 2. The difference between “suspension” and “termination” of aid is less than crystal clear. It is also unclear when, and even whether, the “about $35 million” aid termination will be followed by the threatened additional $200 million aid cut-off...

[greyfoxx39]

Just wait until you see what Obama has in store for Israel...OR for the US!

[Venturer]

We have no business messing in the internal affairs of Honduras, especially when they throw out a would be dictator in accordance with their own Constitution.

Then to say that we wont recognise a l;egal election when they have one is totally ridiculous.

Our Obama usurper is endorsing Communism in this continent.

[Diogenesis]

[Steamburg]

Just say it! We have a Communist in the White House and we are still trying to decide which end of the turd is the clean end.

[I am Richard Brandon]

A little question.

Has any member of the GOP spoken out against this policy?

[aquila48]

“Has any member of the GOP spoken out against this policy?”

The silence is deafening.... and maddening!

[ABQHispConservative]

Don’t have the links on me, but you can search in the forum. Republicans have spoken out against this. Right now they might be engaged in healthcare, but I’m sure this is on their radar screens. And with that idiot communist, Van Jones, as a czar, what better way to hit two (red) birds with one stone?

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

We have no business messing in the internal affairs of Honduras, especially when they throw out a would be dictator in accordance with their own Constitution.

Then to say that we wont recognise a l;egal election when they have one is totally ridiculous.

Our Obama usurper is endorsing Communism in this continent.

Yep.

I wonder why.

He told us to judge him by who he associates with ...

Ayers, Reverend Sh*thead, Van Jones, the Death Doc of Eugenics, and his bro Rahm the Rat with his middle finger stuck up;

(Oh excuse me our very own President does that too)

and on and on and on .........

[aquila48]

“And with that idiot communist, Van Jones, as a czar, what better way to hit two (red) birds with one stone?”

And don’t forget Mark LLoyd - diversity czar at the fcc - (his administration is loaded with overt commies). He’s opposed to private ownership of media - a fan of Chavez who holds up as a model the type of press control and harassement that Chavez is implementing in Venezuala.

Here’s a quote from his book “Prologue to a Farce” - “It should be clear by now that my focus here is not freedom of speech or the press. This freedom is all too often an exaggeration, Harold Innis may have been only slightly exaggerating when he wrote, “Freedom of the press has become the great bulwark of monopolies of the press. At the very least blind references to freedom of speech or the press serve as a distraction from the critical examination of other communication policies.”