Latest related: Whatever Happened in Honduras?
And there are two notes here: 1) the lack of coverage of Honduras shows you it's an approved coup. There is no daily carping like with Iran and their election. Also note Afghanistan and the casual approach to that fraud, and 2) the U.S. supported this one on the sly so the public diplomacy kabuki is really distasteful to a thinking American.
"Chiding regime, US finalizes cut in Honduras aid" by Matthew Lee, Associated Press | September 4, 2009
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration cut all nonhumanitarian aid to Honduras yesterday over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya, making permanent a suspension of US aid imposed after he was deposed in June.
The State Department made the announcement as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was meeting with Zelaya. In making the aid cut decision, Clinton did not determine that Zelaya’s ouster met the US legal definition of a military coup d’etat.
No, the military just rustled the guy out of bed at 3 in the morning and put him on a plane in his pajamas.
Such a finding would have forced the administration to cut off assistance and had been urged by some leading lawmakers, including Representative Howard L. Berman, Democrat of California and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
I thought they just did cut off assistance? WTF?
“This one looks, walks and quacks like a duck,’’ Berman wrote yesterday in the Los Angeles Times. “It’s time to stop hedging and call this bird what it is. And if, for whatever reason, the State Department lawyers do not conclude that this was a coup, Congress should examine other ways by which it can directly affect the flow of aid.’’
Remember that thing called the Boland Amendment way back in the 1980s that was supposed to forbid aid to the Contra criminals fighting the legitimately-elected Nicaraguan government? Getting the same smell here.
Spokesman Ian Kelly said that while stopping short of the coup determination, Clinton’s decision “recognizes the complicated nature of the actions’’ that led to Zelaya’s ouster. He said those “involve complex factual and legal questions and the participation of both the legislative and judicial branches of government as well as the military.’’
You have to love the double standards, don't you?
The guy was tossed because he was cozying up to Chavez.
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You know, if you look around the world right now, not too many people really like America. They don't say it to our face because they don't want the stigma, scorn, and sanctions, but most of the world doesn't like us.
