Silvia Mencillas (center) was comforted by relatives in Tegucigalpa yesterday. Witnesses said her son was shot to death Sunday by army troops during a demonstration. (Rodrigo Abd/ Associated Press)
"Diplomats with the United Nations, the OAS, the United States, and European countries worked behind the scenes yesterday to seek common ground with.... the “the de facto regime.... "
Could the message BE ANY CLEARER?
"Ousted Honduran leader, Clinton to meet; US diplomats weigh response to coup last week" by Matthew Lee, Associated Press | July 7, 2009
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to meet with the deposed Honduran president, Manuel Zelaya, this week as the Obama administration weighs responses to his ouster....
Translation: they are going to jerk him around just as they did with Aristide in Haiti.
Thousands of supporters have been marching to protest his overthrow. About 2,000 demonstrated peacefully yesterday near the presidential palace.
I'll bet that is a LOWBALL NUMBER!
Diplomats with the United Nations, the OAS, the United States, and European countries worked behind the scenes yesterday to seek common ground with Roberto Micheletti, who heads the government that replaced Zelaya and has adopted the title of interim president....
The United States has had limited military-to-military contacts and has frozen programs that directly aid the Honduran government. But it has not yet determined whether Zelaya’s ouster should trigger an automatic suspension in all nonhumanitarian American assistance to Honduras.
Translation:
The U.S. is NOT CALLING IT a COUP -- and WHY WOULD THEY? They SUPPORTED and ENCORAGED IT!
Related: Obama's First Coup
Obama's Honduran Hijinks
Why Honduras?
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said yesterday that the United States “deplores the use of force against demonstrators in Tegucigalpa’’ and called on “the de facto regime and all actors in Honduras to refrain from all acts of violence and seek a peaceful, constitutional and lasting solution to the serious divisions in that country through dialogue.’’
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