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Posted on 12/04/2009 5:07:42 AM PST by don-o
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Where does Manuel Zelaya go now?
Congress slammed the door on restoring the ousted Honduran leader to power, ignoring intense international pressure to reverse Central America's first coup in 20 years.
He faces arrest if he leaves the Brazilian Embassy, where he stays up into the night talking on the phone, sleeps until noon and fires off letters to world leaders, urging them not to forget him. Seeking asylum would return him to the exile he faced when soldiers ejected him from the country in his pajamas.
He vows not to do that — for now.
His other option is trying to negotiate a deal with President-elect Porfirio Lobo, who won Sunday's elections. Lobo appears to be in no hurry to deal with the sticky question of Zelaya's future.
"He doesn't want to start something that isn't a product of a national consensus, to avoid provoking further polarization," Vice President-elect Maria Antonieta de Bogran told The Associated Press. She said Lobo had not spoken to Zelaya since Sunday's election.
President Barack Obama's administration said Thursday there was no choice but to accept the congressional decision. Lawmakers had the last word under a U.S.-brokered accord to end the five-month crisis over the June 28 coup. The pact called for the creation of unity government until Zelaya's term ends Jan. 27, but left the decision of reinstating him up to Congress.
"We're disappointed by this decision since the United States had hoped that Congress would have approved his return," said Arturo Valenzuela, the assistant U.S. secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
However, he said lawmakers voted Wednesday "in an open and transparent manner in accordance" with the agreement, which both Zelaya and interim President Roberto Micheletti signed in October.
So for now, Zelaya is trapped in the embassy,
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Bwhahahahahaha!!!!!!!
those who voted to reinstante him should be removed from office for violating the constitution
A small, poor Central American country, in attempting to uphold its Constitution, has managed to outfox the US, the OAS and the leading socialists of Latin America. Bravo.
As yesterday , when you pointed out “coup” in headline, AP still fighting rear-guard action, who does this “leader” lead?
The best thing would be for the new president to pardon him.
When saying otherwise makes 0 look stupid and incompetent.
Why?
We have done well in making that point.
Well, maybe the Somali Pirates will rescue him?
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The new president may want to discuss that option with Huckabee.
It puts the new administration on the moral high ground, deflects international criticism, and avoids the fact that a jailed Zelaya would give his supporters a strong opposition rallying point with cries of “political prisoner.”
I’m not saying pardon because it’s good for Zelaya, but because it’s a better option for the stability of the country.
BTW, if Zelaya accepts the pardon then he admits that he did something that required a pardon. It puts him at a disadvantage.
See 13 and 14.
Moonbats will bark regardless. It is what they do.
He is accused of serious crimes. The fledgling Honduran democracy grows larger by putting him on trial. In fact, I think they need to issue an ultimatum to Brazil to deliver him up.
The moral high ground always has been held by Honduras.
My bet throughout this has been that Zelya will end up teaching at an American university. I am still sticking to it.
As a supporter of Israel I can tell you that making decisions against your interest because it places you on the moral high ground will do a country no good.
In fact, I believe that Hondiras’s government believed it was on the moral high ground when it exiled instead of imprisoned Zelaya to begin with.
As far as his being pardoned meaning he is admitting guilt, you are ignoring Zelaya’s precious sociopathic and narcissistically megalomaniacal behavior (and no, I am not a psychiatrist so I use all of thede terms loosely). If he had shame and good judgment he would not have tried to take over his country in a way that was clearly unconstitutional and would not have snuck back into his country.
Moreover, a pardon would let him rally his troopas from within Honduras, which would aamplify the support he is getting from Chavezistas. Finally, it would emporwe the predators and bullies in the US state deparment and the Chavezistas outside of his country, like, say, Chavez, all of whom would, rightly, see a pardon as a sign of a willingness on the part of Honduras’s government to abandon its principles in the face of international pressure.
As the old expression goes, if you are kind to the cruel, you wind up being cruel to the kind.
Sorry for the typos.
No problem. I understood it and agree 100%. Well said!!
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