It sounds to me like Michelletti held strong and that, while the U.S. State Department wanted the deal to put Zelaya back in power in violation of the Honduran Constitution, the final agreement leaves confirms that the November elections will go on as planned and leaves Zelaya’s fate up to the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court. Given what we know about those two bodies, they will not subvert the Honduran Constitution and Zelaya will not return to power, not even temporarily.
I wrote to the constitutional government of Honduras a few weeks ago to express my support, and have been receiving several press releases a day from them by e-mail ever since. I’ll see what they say in today’s e-mail, but based on prior press releases I think that the final agreement includes all of the points on which the parties had previously ageed (earlier Michelletti had said that 95% of the points had been agreed upon, and only Zelaya’s fate remained to be decided) and the issue regarding Zelaya was settled ina way acceptable to the government. I thonk it says a lot that Zelaya had to be pushed to sign the agreement—frankly, I think it’s a face-saving measure by the U.S. and other regional powers that knew thatif no agreement was reached prior to the election that people would realize how little influence they truly wield.
In short, I think that the good guys won against all odds, and Obama ended up throwing Zelaya under the bus.
Yeah, that’s how it looks to me too.
I’ve been getting those emails too but my Spanish is so rusty that I can only pick up a few bits and pieces.
I hope you are right and thats the way things will work out. The US & OAS response to this this thing has been beyond weird. It seems that all the heads of states view the removal of any one them as a threat to all of them. Just cause is not a factor for them.