Posted on 10/30/2009 12:02:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Deposed President Manuel Zelaya and his opponents have agreed to a U.S.-brokered deal that he said will return him to power four months after a coup shook faith in Latin America's young democracies.
The power-sharing agreement reached late Thursday calls for Congress to decide whether to reinstate the leftist Zelaya. While the legislature backed his June 28 ouster, congressional leaders have since said they won't stand in the way of an agreement that ends Honduras' diplomatic isolation and legitimizes presidential elections planned for Nov. 29.
Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Shannon said Friday that the two sides finally made concessions after realizing the international community wouldn't recognize the elections or restore aid without a compromise.
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US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon (L) and OAS delegate Victor Rico (R) announce the end of the political crisis in Tegucigalpa, on October 29. Manuel Zelaya looked set to be reinstated, pending approval from Congress, as rival sides in Honduras finalized a deal Friday to end months of political paralysis. (AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)
Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya speaks during a meeting inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa October 28, 2009. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
Throw this in the face of the leftists who complained non stop about Reagan involved in Central/South American affairs.
The de facto leader of Honduras Roberto Micheletti gives a press conference at the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa on October 29. Ousted President Manuel Zelaya looked set to be reinstated, pending approval from Congress, as rival sides in Honduras finalized a deal Friday to end months of political paralysis. (AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)
He uses an Apple?
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya speaks to journalists at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Zelaya looked set to be reinstated, pending approval from Congress, as rival sides in Honduras finalized a deal Friday to end months of political paralysis. (AFP/Orlando Sierra)
Oh yeah.
George Washington warned about foreign entanglements..
This makes me sick. I have never been ashamed of my country like I am now.
Zelaya can say whatever he wants, but the deal is that the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court would decide his fate. The Supreme Court will say that he cannot be returned to power, and Congress will agree. The decision will probably come after the Nov. 29 elections, and Zelaya won’t be able to do a damn thing when the Honduran institutions announce that the law is clear and Zelaya is constitutionally forbidden from returning to power.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya: “ All it took to regain power was for Obama to threaten to assasinate Micheletti”
I agree. However, I do think the Monroe Doctrine does have a point.
One of the problems of begging richer countries for money is that they think they should run your politics. Good thing we aren't in... no wait, we are in that very position of begging for cash constantly.
What happens if it looks like Obama is going to lose in 2012, but then China publicly threatens to cut off our line of credit if we don't reelect him?
I think this is just to save face for Obama, who was determined to crush Honduras even after a UN report (believe it or not) came out and said Honduras had acted perfectly correctly in dealing with Zelaya, with the exception of expelling him rather than imprisoning him.
It requires the approval of the legislature and supreme court. Also, Zelaya fought against it and had to be forced to accept it, so I think he knows it’s not what he’s saying it is.
That said, it is shameful that Obama did this. But the Marxist Muslim has no shame. It’s all about him, in his tiny pea-sized brain.
Honuras really blew it by A) letting Zelaya stage a comeback campaign and B) assuming the US is anti-communist/for the rule of law when the dems are in power.
The congressmen could pay a high political cost if they restitute him. Also they could be fearfull of the dissolution of the congress in retaliation for his destitution. this applies to the SC too. Then when he refuses to carry elections will the State Dept. force him to hold them or claim that thay “don’t meddle in internal affairs of sovereign countries”?
“after a coup shook faith in Latin America’s young democracies”
Faith amongst whom? Those who already prefer dictators?
“The de facto leader of Honduras Roberto Micheletti”
Uh, would that be de jure? Down the memory hole goes the truth.
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