U.S. recognises Honduras vote with caveats

Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | 12/01/2009 | Deborah Charles

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The State Department recognized Porfirio Lobo's victory in Sunday's election but said the Honduran Congress still needed to vote on the restoration of deposed President Manuel Zelaya and form a government of national unity.

"While the election is a significant step in Honduras' return to the democratic and constitutional order ... it's only a step and it's not the last step," said Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela.

Before the election, the United States tried and failed to have Zelaya reinstated. Its support of the election upset many Latin American nations, including powerful Brazil, which called Sunday's vote invalid.

Elected five months after a coup forced Zelaya into exile on June 28, Lobo is urging Latin American governments to recognise him as president-elect in order to help pull the country out of a deep political crisis.

Opposition leader Lobo won some 55 percent of the vote, easily defeating ruling party candidate Elvin Santos. A boycott by supporters of Zelaya was ineffective and electoral officials say the turnout was above 60 percent.

Human rights groups say crackdowns on pro-Zelaya media and marches during the campaign put the validity of the vote in doubt.

[mylife]

WTF?

Before the election, the United States tried and failed to have Zelaya reinstated. Its support of the election upset many Latin American nations, including powerful Brazil, which called Sunday's vote invalid.

Deborah Charles should be permanently barred from journalism.

[Son House]

Yep, apply some macroeconomic principles to attract companies now while the tax and regulate Democrats eradicate them from this country

[American Constitutionalist]

" I love how if this was the other way around, meaning that a right leaning President was kicked out for a leftist, and President Bush had been opposed and called for the restoration of the right leaning President, the libs would have been screaming their heads off about America meddling in the affairs of other countries. You hear nothing out of them now since it is their agenda that Obama is meddling in favor of. "

The hypocrisy and double stanrard is outstanding, isn't it ...
They care not at all in what is right, they only care about promoting their agenda. ?

[RoadTest]

Honduras, don’t pay any attention to the jerks in Washington.