President Barack Obama’s condemnation of Zelaya’s overthrow as a “terrible precedent” is belied by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s refusal to characterize it as a coup. Under US laws, such a designation would force the government to cut off tens of millions of dollars in aid to Honduras and its armed forces. Clinton also declined to call for Zelaya’s reinstatement, saying, “We haven’t laid out any demands that we’re insisting on, because we’re working with others on behalf of our ultimate objectives.” Zelaya was overthrown because his populism was seen as a threat both to conservative sections of the bourgeoisie in Honduras and to US strategic interests in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Also see: Obama's First Coup
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Thousands of Hondurans demonstrated yesterday for the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, who vowed to fly home this weekend despite a warrant for his arrest. Thousands more rallied in favor of the military-backed government. I'm tired of the MSM's lying equivocating.
Look at them try to say the demonstrations are equal.
Think I trust their lying, agenda-pushing ass anymore?
Newly appointed President Roberto Micheletti said it would take a foreign invasion to put Zelaya back in power. He said he was sending a delegation to Washington in an attempt to reverse the country’s increasing international isolation, though his foreign minister later denied that.
France, Spain, Italy, Chile, and Colombia joined other nations yesterday in recalling their ambassadors. The Pentagon suspended joint US-Honduran military operations, and the World Bank said it was freezing loans. Honduras’s three neighbors have suspended cross-border trade....
So where is the covert assistance coming from, U.S.?
Both sides of the dispute mobilized supporters in the streets yesterday, with a pro-Zelaya march in the capital and pro-Micheletti demonstrations in other cities. No violence was reported.
“We want Mel!’’ 30-year-old farmhand Javier Santos yelled over a megaphone, using Zelaya’s nickname, as marchers walked to the local offices of the Organization of American States and sang the national anthem, fists thrust skyward. Businesses quickly lowered their shutters as marchers approached.
The largest pro-Micheletti rally was in Choluteca, 75 miles south of the capital, where demonstrators wore the blue and white of the Honduran flag. Those demonstrations received heavy coverage on Honduran television stations, which all but ignored the pro-Zelaya protests.
Like the AmeriKan MSM has a LEG to STAND ON there!!!!
Leftist broadcasters say they have been forced off the air or had signals interrupted by soldiers under orders of the new government. Micheletti said he would look into the allegations.
Seeking to stem internal unrest, Congress passed a bill yesterday that toughens a curfew in place since the coup. The law gives authorities the power to conduct warrantless searches and removes constitutional rights to assembly and movement during the 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m. curfew.
Why isn't Obama HOLLERING about this like he was SPEWING about IRAN, 'eh?
The OAS gave Micheletti until Saturday to step aside before Honduras is suspended from the group, an ultimatum Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza said was meant “to show clearly that military coups will not be accepted. We thought we were in an era when military coups were no longer possible in this hemisphere.’’
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In an interview, Micheletti vowed Zelaya would be arrested if he returns, even though the presidents of Argentina and Ecuador have agreed to accompany him, along with the heads of the OAS and the UN General Assembly....
Micheletti also made a bold claim, suggesting the entire Honduran population backs his interim government. Though Zelaya still enjoys strong support, especially among the poor majority....
The new government was on a long-shot diplomatic offensive yesterday, ordering home Honduras’s pro-Zelaya ambassadors to the United States, the United Nations, and the OAS.
--more--"Did that MSM really tell you anything?
It was just more obfuscation, wasn't it?
