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Obama's Honduran Hijinks
Why Honduras?
"OAS chief, en route to Honduras, calls economic sanctions likely; Diplomat will demand return of the president" by Will Weissert and Bert Wilkinson, Associated Press | July 3, 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - A top diplomat said yesterday that he is heading to Honduras to demand the return of the president toppled at gunpoint, a mission he said is likely to meet rejection, bringing diplomatic and economic punishment for the impoverished Central American nation.
The head of the Organization of American States, José Miguel Insulza, said he plans to travel to Honduras today to demand the restoration of President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a coup Sunday.
“I will do everything I can,’’ Insulza said at a summit of Caribbean leaders in Guyana. “But I think it will be very hard to turn things around in a couple of days. We are not going to Honduras to negotiate. We are going to Honduras to ask them to change what they have been doing.’’
The interim government of Roberto Micheletti has shown little willingness to do so, contending that the army acted legally on orders of Congress and the Supreme Court when it raided Zelaya’s house amid gunfire and deported him, still in his nightshirt.
The Organization of American States said it will suspend Honduras if Zelaya is not back in office by tomorrow, bringing sanctions that could block international aid to one of the poorest nations in the hemisphere.
Nations around the world have promised to shun Micheletti, who was sworn in after the Sunday coup, and the nation is suffering economic reprisals. Neighboring countries have imposed trade blockades, major lenders have cut aid, the Obama administration has halted joint military operations, and European Union ambassadors have abandoned the capital....
One wonders what they are doing behind the censored scenes of AmeriKa's newspapers.
