Hillary Clinton meeting with Caribbean Foreign Ministers

[malaise]

on Wednesday

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Crime-crowds-Clinton-s-Caribbean-agenda
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton flew to Latin America and the Caribbean with a crowded agenda awaiting: lingering tensions over last year's coup in Honduras, United States immigration policy, security issues and concerns over Iran and the Middle East.

The most contentious topic facing the OAS — whether to readmit Honduras to the regional bloc — isn't on the agenda at today's annual OAS General Assembly in Lima. But it will loom large over the discussions, with the US at odds with numerous other member countries on the matter.

The US wants Honduras allowed back into the organisation following elections that brought the current president, Porfirio Lobo, to power after the June 2009 coup that ousted his predecessor, Manuel Zelaya. Other governments, notably Brazil, Venezuela and Nicaragua, are opposed and insist that Zelaya be allowed to return home first.

On Sunday, Clinton mentioned the situation in Jamaica, where bloody street battles erupted last month as authorities searched for a reputed drug lord. "Even countries with stable political systems and trained police forces and military assets can be facing tremendous challenges from these well-organised drug traffickers," she said.
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Stand up for Zelaya regional people

[jdlh8894]

1. Why is it up to us?

I thought that was what the UN is for!

[rabs]

2. Another useless OAS meeting

with the theme being, "Peace, Security and Cooperation." There will be a lot of bla bla and hot air and nothing will result, except for a bland final statement.

Honduras is not even on the agenda, but it will be discussed in private among the foreign ministers. Discussion will not be public because it would reveal the gap that separates Hillary and Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador and others over the Honduras question.

The most intriguing result will be a possible confrontation between Hillary and Brazil's Amorin over the Brazilian/Turkey/Iran deal that Hillary is trying to derail at the U.N.


(Off topic) Have things calmed down in Kingston? Was Coke arrested? Final death toll?

[malaise]

3. We don't know the final death toll

They say 73 but people in the know say well over 100. Things are still tense and Coke is still on the run. Overall murders are down because men are hiding or head.

[rabs]

4. 73 dead and it dropped out of sight in the U.S. corpo media

Followed the breaking story on The Gleaner but had lost track the past several days.

We knew some Jamaicans in South Florida and they were nice people.

Fingers crossed that no more innocents will be caught in the conflict.