US backs high-stakes Honduras mission

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

US backs high-stakes Honduras mission
1 hr 7 mins ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The United States on Monday strongly backed a seven-nation mission aimed at ending Honduras' political crisis, saying it supplied an aircraft that took the delegation to the Central American nation.

The head of the Organization of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, flew to Honduras with seven foreign ministers to persuade the post-coup government to accept a proposal to reinstall ousted President Manuel Zelaya.

"We firmly support their visit," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters.

"We continue to believe that the Honduran people deserve a peaceful negotiated agreement to which all parties can commit, and that this accord presents the best opportunity," he said.

Kelly said the US government, responding to the mission's request, provided a C-17 aircraft to fly the delegation from Miami to an airbase near the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090824/pl_afp/honduraspoliticsmilitarycoupus_20090824213201

[Warpy]

1. The coup's heavy handed response to protests

has alienated a lot of the people who initially supported it.

I don't think they much want Zelaya back, but they want the right wing thugs out.

[Judi Lynn]

3. How do you explain the crowds of people who put their lives on the line during curfew

imposed by the coup leaders to keep them from gathering and have demonstrated until today, and will demonstrated tomorrow and into the future, even though they are being beaten, tortured, raped and murdered?

Haven't you read any of the articles, or looked at any of the photos taken?

If you mean "they" as the filthy reeking coup leaders don't want Honduras' elected President back, you're right.

http://www.voanews.com.nyud.net:8090/lao/images/afp_honduras_zelaya_supporters_07jul09_210.jpg http://news.xinhuanet.com.nyud.net:8090/english/2009-07/31/xinsrc_482070631072193753562.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_DDgppJucbUk/Sm3KEZzHK0I/AAAAAAAAAII/fFo0NjVbjhA/s320/funeral+honduras.jpg http://www.cpcml.ca.nyud.net:8090/images2009/LatinAmerica/090708-HondurasTegucigalpaAntiCoup-02.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com.nyud.net:8090/albums/a249/davidseth/hondurodemo.jpg http://www.marxist.com.nyud.net:8090/images/stories/honduras/toncontin1.jpg http://www.sott.net.nyud.net:8090/image/image/s1/24989/full/16hondurasA_xl.jpg http://www.abc.net.au.nyud.net:8090/unleashed/images/zelaya_supporters_400.jpg http://soundsinspiringchange.files.wordpress.com.nyud.net:8090/2009/06/honduras.jpg http://photos.mg.co.za.nyud.net:8090/original/0.83089500%201246623519.jpg

http://cache.boston.com.nyud.net:8090/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2009/07/14/1247627342_0607/539w.jpg



http://www.huffingtonpost.com.nyud.net:8090/huff-wires/20090725/lt-honduras-coup/images/26e7f87a-b346-42be-b6db-0078442c0f47.jpg

http://media3.washingtonpost.com.nyud.net:8090/wp-srv/photo/gallery/090706/GAL-09Jul06-2263/media/PHO-09Jul06-168477.jpg
There are so many, many more.

Why do you imagine they shut down electricity, cut phone lines, knocked out the radio and tv stations immediately, called Why did they bring back the leader of the death squads from the genocidal past to act as the coup security head, a man who is wanted by Spain for his war crimes?

You owe it to yourself to find out more about this, or if you actually do know, you owe it to DU'ers not to attempt to mislead.

[Posteritatis]

4. Oh, but they're all just CIA plants!

:sarcasm:

[Warpy]

5. What part of some of the population having supported the ouster

of Zelaya didn't YOU get? I read the boards and yes, I do read Spanish quite well. I have also kept up with newspapers all over the Spanish speaking Americas.

My comments were about the sizable number of people who wanted Zelaya gone. They don't want him back, but they are equally in favor of some mechanism that will oust this coup.

I do wish a careful reading had been done as well as your meticulous attention to posting photos of some of the demonstrations.

You didn't even find the best ones. I found the best ones published in Diario de Yucatan.

What you need to realize is that the upper middle class along with many educated people in Honduras initially welcomed the coup. They have pulled in the welcome mat thanks to the coup's heavy handed response to the demonstrators, which I cited, and you'd know if you'd read the post.

[gorbal]

7. Not enough

Not enough to justify a democratically elected leader being forcibly removed from office. For asking his constituents to "gasp" vote on a non binding referendum.
Never enough.

(edit:rereading your post; you probably won't disagree with me:)

[deep1]

9. Tired of hearing about Honduras..........

while Haitians are eating mud cookies. Haiti should be given priority. Who cares about some shitty elected official who probably deserved to be ousted.

[Judi Lynn]

10. Then don't read them. I'm not going to stop posting. I'm the one who posted

the first thread, I think, with IMAGERY showing those ####ing mud cookies, and my grandparents were missionaries there. Haiti's poverty goes back a very long time.

I'll bet you know next to nothing about Haiti, as well.

You must learn to use your "ignore thread" feature: that's why the D.U. moderators installed it. Butt out if you're going to refuse to learn something about the topic. Stop trying to dictate what gets coverage in LBN. That's not your call.

The U.S. is most clearly involved in this, so any news about this situation, as long as it's under 12 hours old, is something I'm by god going to post right here. I'll wait for the moderator's will on what is allowed here.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Here's one of the threads I posted on Haiti, and mud food, on January, 2008.

Since I know how you really care about this subject, I'm so sure you'll take the time to read it:
Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3161598

[MasonJar]

2. Who cares what the USA wants; he is the duly elected president.

[roody]

6. Thanks for the levity!!!

[Judi Lynn]

8. Posted in the DU Latin America forum, by Downwinder, an alert from Honduras.

ALERTA! Major Escalation of Military Presence in Tegucigalpa
Posted by Downwinder

htpt://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x21626

Appearing in blog by magbana:
http://hondurasoye.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/alerta-major-escalation-of-military-presence-in-tegucigalpa/