IMF May Withhold $164 Million Allocated to Honduras

[Downwinder]

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[Judi Lynn]

1. This is a good slap at Micheletti who told media sources they will make up any lost support

by doing business with the international banking community.

Hope this puts a damper on his irritating cockiness.

[Judi Lynn]

2. Why Obama Won't Use the M-Word for Honduras' Coup

Why Obama Won't Use the M-Word for Honduras' Coup
By Tim Padgett Saturday, Sep. 05, 2009

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Honduran soldiers supported by an armored vehicle remain inside the presidential palace.
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The Obama Administration tried again this week to take on the coupsters of Honduras. With more than two months passed since Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was exiled in a military ouster — and less than three months to go before his impoverished Central American nation holds new presidential elections — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jabbed harder at the coup leaders to get them to let Zelaya back into Honduras and finish his democratically elected term. The U.S. cut all non-humanitarian aid to the de facto government, about $32 million; revoked the visas of all civilian and military officials who backed the June 28 coup, and threatened not to recognize the results of the Nov. 29 elections unless Zelaya is returned to office.

The Obama Administration tried again this week to take on the coupsters of Honduras. With more than two months passed since Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was exiled in a military ouster — and less than three months to go before his impoverished Central American nation holds new presidential elections — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jabbed harder at the coup leaders to get them to let Zelaya back into Honduras and finish his democratically elected term. The U.S. cut all non-humanitarian aid to the de facto government, about $32 million; revoked the visas of all civilian and military officials who backed the June 28 coup, and threatened not to recognize the results of the Nov. 29 elections unless Zelaya is returned to office.

But the Administration also sent a significant mixed signal. It didn't use the m-word: Military. Its lawyers have determined that while Zelaya's overthrow was a coup d'etat, it was not technically a military coup. The main reason: even though soldiers threw Zelaya out of the country at gunpoint, in his pajamas, he was not replaced with a military leader. Instead, Micheletti, a civilian who headed Honduras' Congress, was made President. Other "complicating factors," as the U.S. calls them, include lingering questions about which Honduran institution — Congress, the Supreme Court or the Army — actually ordered Zelaya's removal after he openly defied a high court edict not to hold a non-binding referendum on constitutional reform.

The legal semantics matter. If the State Department labels a coup "military" — the most brutal and anti-democratic kind of overthrow — it automatically triggers a suspension of all non-humanitarian and non-democracy-related U.S. aid. In the case of Honduras, State Department officials insist that those measures have already been taken without the military-coup tag. But critics, who fear Obama is keeping the Honduras coup designation downgraded to mollify conservative Republicans, argue that further steps, like freezing Honduran bank accounts in the U.S., are still available to the Administration.

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[Peace Patriot]

3. That armored vehicle and--is it machine guns?--and the wicked looking

"beat up the protestors" sticks, and the other military weapons to keep the people of Honduras from protesting the coup--all paid for by you and me.

Which I find totally dismaying, enraging and saddening all at the same time. What it makes me think of is ourfailures as a people, and the failures of our democracy.

:grouphug:

[Judi Lynn]

4. Isn't that thing startling? Why the hell would ANYONE consider bringing that monster out

to intimidate the protesters?

Just that vehicle sitting there at the gate tells you all you need to know about these dirty criminals. The armed soldiers should serve as a deadly threat on their own.

It indicates the high level of fear within the walls, no doubt. They are probably terrified their coup is going to be reversed and they will be snared in a horrendous legal battle, at the very LEAST, if they aren't pounded to a pulp by the crowds!

I hope the view of that death machine sitting there ready to slaughter thousands of Honduran protesters will deepen their resolve they do not want these people in charge.

No doubt they got it from the U.S., just as US money bought the tanks and war planes Fulgencio Batista used against the Cuban people in their struggle, and bought control of the El Mercurio paper in Chile to mold public perception for Pinochet, and against Allende, and even supported former Nazis in relocating to South America after WWII. All kept completely secret from the very taxpayers who were forced to pay for this viciousness. God only knows how much of US taxpayers' salaries has been using in violent suppression of others.

[fascisthunter]

5. "May".... and We the Tax Payers are bailing out the IMF