Posted on 09/09/2009 4:07:12 AM PDT by don-o
Honduras' de facto government remains dead-set against the return of Manuel Zelaya as the country's president, defying the Obama administration and disregarding the U.S. sanctions imposed last week against the poor Central American nation.
In fact, the government of interim President Roberto Micheletti appears to be digging in its heels against Zelaya by circulating accusations the ousted president illegally used public money to keep horses, buy watches and jewelry and repair his Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez Contreras said his government continues to reject calls that it grant amnesty to Zelaya and allow him to return as president, as called for under a proposal by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias.
"Mr. Zelaya has orders for his arrest for crimes he has committed. That is the only possibility," Lopez Contreras told McClatchy in a telephone interview.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
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I applaud their perserverance, I wish our government would stand up to B. “Hitler” Obama....
So, let’s relax restrictions against Cuba, but let’s put economic sanctions on Honduras. Great.
GO HONDURAS!
And one more snip...Birth certificate? Hmmmmm...
Victor Meza, who was Zelaya’s minister of internal security, said the visa cancellations would hit home among Micheletti’s well-to-do supporters.
“To have a visa to visit the United States is like having a birth certificate for them,” Meza said by telephone. “It’s like an identity card for the upper crust.”
Good Honduras, tell Obommunist to shove it!
We actually sanctioned Honduras over this. Unbelievable.
If Chavez was tossed out Obama would be as outraged.
What a messed up world we live in when Honduras is suspended from the OAS while Cuba is readmitted.
This is something to write our congress critters about.
“defacto government”? it’s the legitimate government, that Obama is trying to overthrow.
Good. Honduras is following their law and their constitution.
I wish we would follow ours.
If BHO will not protect our consttutional rights,why should anyone expect him to do so for the Hondurans,who rose up and rid themselves of a lying,, Castro loving oBAMA-like leader. Maybe we should take their lesson to heart and do the same.
In fact, the government of interim President Roberto Micheletti appears to be digging in its heels against Zelaya by circulating accusations the ousted president illegally used public money to keep horses, buy watches and jewelry and repair his Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
These aren't "accusations" being "circulated," which implies that they are groundless; Zelaya ran up many of these things on government charge cards and an investigation had already started. They also even have videos of him having his thugs roll bags of currency out of the Central Bank because he wanted it first for his illegally staged "election" and then to live comfortably when he left the country.
Quite a few of the 19th and early 20th century American interventions in Latin America so deplored today were similar in motivation.
Most notably, Wilson’s intervention and seizure of Veracruz in Mexico in 1914 was because of a dictator’s overthrow and murder of a more or less elected president. It led eventually to Villa’s incursion at Columbus and the somewhat comic opera American invasion of northern Mexico under Pershing.
My point is that Wilson was operating from impeccably democratic principles, but the result is now commonly considered a prime example of the horrors of American imperialism. How is Obama’s intervention different?
Hey, i did not vote for this marxist punk and i do not support anything he’s done.
Course many very stupids did.
Brave Honduras....
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