Big Gun: US Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Heads to Honduras Tuesday

[Downwinder]

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/3577/big-gun-us-labor-secretary-hilda-solis-heads-honduras-tuesday

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[Peace Patriot]

1. Yup, interesting commentary--from people who have been on the ground in Honduras--

--Al Giordano and the dauntless journalists of NarcoNews.

They feel hopeful about Obama's verification team, and this is the second knowledgeable comment I've seen, that what was occurring, as to US/Honduras policy over the last four months, was a disagreement between Obama and Clinton, and Obama just prevailed.

"That the White House chose Secretary Solis - obviously not from the State Department, but a cabinet member on equal footing with Secretary Hillary Clinton - sends a clear message that it means business (and perhaps that the hemming and hawing that characterized State's mixed-message behavior toward the Honduras crisis all summer long has come to its overdue conclusion). Solis is strongly allied with labor union organizations in the US, which have their own alliances with many of the unions that make the backbone of the Honduran Civil Resistance.

"In addition to speaking Spanish, both Solis and Lagos know plenty about how civil resistance works and how to combat the stalling tactics of those in power. Solis already bested the stalling tactics of Republicans in the US Congress earlier this year that attempted to block her nomination. Lagos has already dismantled one coup regime. He now gets the chance to dismantle another."

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I read a similar comment by an Argentine analyst yesterday. I'm still not sure, because there have been so many Bushwhack players in this coup (including Bushwhacks and oil war planners in the Pentagon, the diplomatic corps, the CIA). Jim DeMint, John McCain, John Negroponte, Otto Reich, James Baker. They were telling the golpistas to "stand firm," and delay-delay-delay, and probably that Clinton and Obama would be ambushed when it got to Congress (which the smart Obama team did not let happen). And there are also some other BIG issues involved--all of Obama's Latin America appointments, and this dreadful thing that (Bushwhack) Brownfield just "signed" in Colombia (and will now come to Congress), for seven new US military bases in Colombia. This was not a simple situation in Honduras. And it could be read as a plan of deliberate and traitorous sabotage of Obama's stated policy of peace, respect and cooperation in Latin America. That's what I think the Honduran coup was/is, and I'm just not sure that Clinton would engage is such obvious sabotage. I'm not a Hillary fan, at all, but I want to understand what really went down, and where Obama really stands, as well. Solis is a good sign that somebody recognizes how powerful the labor resistance has been, that they represent a lot of people, and have a right to have a say in this deal. And Lagos is a good sign that human rights will be an issue, and that the verification commission is coup-savvy. But I'm not ready to blame Hillary for the whole thing. Obama is the president, with the most responsibility for getting his L/A appointments approved, cleaning house (getting the Bushwhacks and warmongers and traitors out of the government), and establishing and enforcing his policy. I'm still "wait and see." I don't think things are very clear. And one of the keys, for me, as to whether or not Obama is sincere about a peaceful policy in L/A, will be how he handles this Pentagon war profiteer business in Colombia, of seven new US military bases, when it hits Congress.