Honduras prohibits visit of OAS crisis negotiators

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Source: AP WP

Honduras prohibits visit of OAS crisis negotiators

By FREDDY CUEVAS
The Associated Press
Sunday, August 9, 2009; 10:01 AM

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras -- Honduras' coup-installed president says he will not allow a visit by regional delegates trying to negotiate an end to the country's political crisis because their leader lacks "impartiality and professionalism."

Interim leader Roberto Micheletti said Sunday that he would be willing to reschedule the delegation's visit, previously planned for Tuesday - as long as Organization of American States chief Jose Miguel Insulza doesn't participate.

The Washington-based OAS on Friday announced the formation of the delegation comprising foreign ministers from Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

The group was going to try to persuade Micheletti to negotiate with international mediators seeking to return President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a June 28 coup.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/09/AR2009080900869.html

[bemildred]

1. Micheletti must be scared shitless.

Shut down the media, closed the borders, won't let diplomats come talk to anybody. Pretty soon he will think he's Kim Jong Il and Honduras is N. Korea.

[formercia]

3. This is really going to help Micheletti's case.

Keep digging. :rofl:

[fasttense]

2. Maybe the OAS should ask Chiquita if they can come into Honduras?

Better yet, bribe some Chiquita executives to let them in.

[Wilms]

4. I'm sure Hillary will agree that it's "reckless" for the coup to turn the OAS away.

Hopefully, she'll announce that shortly.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Honduras Coup: A Template for Hemispheric Assault on Democracy

Honduras Coup: A Template for Hemispheric Assault on Democracy
by Felipe Stuart Cournoyer
08.08.09

The people of Honduras have now suffered more than 40 days of military rule. The generals' June 28 coup, crudely re-packaged in constitutional guise, ousted the country's elected government and unleashed severe, targeted, and relentless repression.

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In the first days after the coup, it appeared that the whole world was coming out against the Honduran generals and their civilian front men. ALBA -- the nine-nation Bolivarian alliance initiated by Venezuela and Cuba -- took the initiative in uniting Latin American governments around a common stand. Nicaragua's capital, Managua, became the temporary capital of Our America. Many Latin American presidents knew only too well that they could soon suffer Zelaya's fate.

Argentina's Cristina Fermandez devoted her entire speech to this theme at the OAS general assembly, which took a unanimous stand against the golpistas (coupsters). That was followed quickly by a UN General Assembly meeting, convened by its president Father Miguel d'Escoto (a veteran Nicaraguan Sandinista leader), which also passed a unanimous resolution repudiating the coup and recognizing Zelaya as the legitimate president of Honduras.

Faced with this reality, the U.S. government hastened to portray itself as a key opponent of the military take-over and a supporter of Zelaya's return. It was politically urgent for the Obama regime, not only in Latin America but domestically, to disclaim involvement in the coup.

There has been much speculation that Obama may disagree with his government's duplicitous policy on the coup. That can of course not be excluded. But what counts for the people of Honduras and their supporters is not Obama's possible private opinions but his government's actions. Its walk betrayed its pronouncements.

More:
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/cournoyer080809.html

[G_j]

7. Was The Military Coup in Honduras Engineered By Two US Companies?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6254625


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[Judi Lynn]

6. Effort to end Honduras political crisis hits a new roadblock

Effort to end Honduras political crisis hits a new roadblock
By Tyler Bridges, McClatchy Newspapers Tyler Bridges, Mcclatchy Newspapers – 1 hr 32 mins ago

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Efforts to return deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to power hit a new roadblock Sunday when the country's de facto government canceled an upcoming visit by foreign envoys who're seeking to resolve the Central American nation's six-week-old political crisis.

Honduras' interim government said it couldn't accept a delegation led by Jose Miguel Insulza , the secretary general of the Organization of American States , because of what it called his "lack of objectivity, impartiality and professionalism."

Sunday's announcement was an about-face by de facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti , who on Friday said he welcomed the envoys' visit.

"They just want to stall and delay things," said Carlos Sosa , who was Zelaya's OAS ambassador, said by telephone from Washington , where the organization is based. "They hope by delaying things they can have an election and the world will recognize it."

More:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090809/wl_mcclatchy/3288495

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8. They will keep stalling and delaying until after they steal the next election

and lock in their golpista regime for good.

I don't want to hear one more second of blather from this Administration about preserving democracy or related memes as long as those golpista criminals are still in power.