AUGUST 19, 2009, TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS: Pages 2 and 3 of yesterday’s La Prensa are devoted to an interview with Honduran coup president Roberto Micheletti entitled “Nada me ha quitado el sueño”—roughly “Nothing keeps me up at night.” The first paragraph informs us that this interview constitutes the first time Micheletti has spoken openly with the national media, which calls into question what Micheletti was hiding when he announced at a July 1 press conference in Tegucigalpa that time was on the side of the coup regime when it came to the return of ousted President Mel Zelaya. Also called into question is why the de facto president has jeopardized La Prensa’s scoop by also giving interviews to Channel 5 TV and to the McClatchy newspaper chain in the last 48 hours.
As for why the coup has not interrupted Micheletti’s sleeping patterns—which are presumably easier to maintain when time is on one’s side—he assures us that his conscience is not burdened by the military interruption of the sleeping patterns of Zelaya, who was removed from his home in his pajamas on June 28. La Prensa asks whether he is not kept up at night by threats from the international community and Zelaya himself; Micheletti responds with a request for Hondurans to vote on November 29 in defiance of international threats not to recognize a government elected via illegitimate elections. US ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens may have further eased Micheletti’s conscience last week by explaining at a meeting with an American human rights delegation that “you don’t boycott,” which for the moment served as the US stance on such elections.
Micheletti explains that his lack of insomnia is closely linked with his faith in God and that he consistently prays for peace and tranquility in the country, where military actions against Zelaya were justified by the constitution. The Honduran military had meanwhile also stressed its spiritual connections in its own recent debut in the national media, which had occurred despite the fact that its leaders had already had a great deal of contact with said media and suggested a media fondness for repeatedly introducing relevant characters to its audience.
Halfway through his latest media introduction, Micheletti responds to a question regarding the origins of the current political crisis by declaring that he is not going to discuss political issues at the moment because he is totally focused on working towards a better Honduras. A possible implication of such attitudes on the part of leading politicians is that the better Honduras will be achieved not politically but rather through prayer, which Honduran cardinal Oscar Rodríguez had presumably understood when aligning himself with the coup.
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http://www.narconews.com/Issue59/article3773.htmlLanny Davis must have gotten him to hire Karl Rove to work on his campaign!
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