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Posted on 12/02/2009 3:57:06 AM PST by don-o
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Honduran lawmakers begin debating ousted President Manuel Zelaya's future Wednesday under pressure from much of the region to reinstate him or face more isolation despite a presidential election designed to end the crisis.
It's not clear the pressure will be enough. The interim administration has already resisted months of diplomatic arm-twisting, and has long predicted Sunday's election would weaken demands for Zelaya's return.
Still, many Latin American governments warn they will not restore ties with the incoming administration of Porfirio Lobo unless Zelaya is allowed to finish his own term, which ends Jan. 27.
Lobo, a wealthy rancher from the conservative National Party, won the regularly scheduled presidential vote that Honduras' interim leaders insist shows their country's democracy is intact even if Zelaya was ousted June 28 in a dispute over changing the constitution.
Many Latin American countries, especially left-led governments, say recognizing the election would amount to legitimizing Central America's first coup in 20 years.
"We can't pretend nothing happened," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday before leaving a summit in Portugal of leaders from Latin America, Spain and Portugal. "If this state of affairs is allowed to remain, democracy will be at serious risk in Latin and Central America."
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Just as likely, a backroom puppet of 'sluggo chavez'
Why not put him on trial? Didn’t he not only try to change the term limit, but actually try to rig the election. I also thought that I read that he had directed a lot of money for personal use. Why not toss him in jail and be done with it.
Congress is made up of the same lawmakers who largely voted June 28 to oust Zelaya and replace him with Micheletti, who was then the congressional president. That vote took place hours after soldiers stormed into Zelaya's residence and flew him into exile in his pajamas.
Zelaya was deposed for ignoring a Supreme Court order to cancel a referendum that would have asked Hondurans if they wanted an assembly to rewrite the constitution.
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While she could have said "removed from office, in accordance with the constitution" rather than "oust" or "deposed", still there is a smidgen of truth down in the article.
(I'm working on my optimism these dark days.)
Noy an unvarnished idiot. Just a pro-Marxist, and an inveterate liar.
Don't they have prisons in Honduras?
All the Soviet Socialist tyrants of South and Central America feel threatened by Democracy. That’s not really new(s), is it?
They should have solved this problem when they removed him . He should have had an accidental “Heart attack”.
Lula is a leftist who seems to have been designated as Obama’s latest point-man in LatAm. Chavez was getting a little too nutty and too hot to handle and many people in the US, even fairly liberal ones, have questions about him.
Lula, on the other hand, has a big, relatively wealthy country at his command and much more prestige than Hugo. He has already received perks from Obama in the form of the oil drilling money, and now he’s doing Obama’s bidding and attacking Honduras.
They all have a real fear that someone in their countries will follow the Honduras example and hold their feet to the fire.
Not an idiot, a socialist. When a socialist says 'democracy', he always means socialism. When you say 'constitution', he'll say "next question, please".
I’m betting the Honduran Congress drags this out until about Jan. 27, just to be safe.
My Brazilian friends tell me Lula does not even have a High School education and gained power through thug union connections and empty “give away” promises to the poor.
Well our President claims to have a college degree; though no one seems to even remember him on campus.
Lula hides his diploma and ossamma obama hides his birth certificate. They do have a great deal in common, besides being socialists.
Then you have had to suffer for a greater number of years than I hope we do not have to under ossamma obama.
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