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"Honduras leaders back down, pledge to restore civil liberties; Reversal in tone follows outcry at curbed protests" by Mark Stevenson, Associated Press | September 29, 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - The coup-installed president of Honduras backed down yesterday from an escalating standoff with protesters and suggested he would restore civil liberties and reopen dissident television and radio stations by the end of the week.
Riot police ringed supporters of the ousted president, Manuel Zelaya, who gathered for a large-scale protest march, setting off a daylong standoff. The government of the interim president, Roberto Micheletti, declared the march illegal, sent soldiers to silence dissident broadcasters, and suspended civil liberties for 45 days.
But in a sudden reversal, Micheletti said yesterday afternoon that he wanted to “ask the Honduran people for forgiveness’’ for the measures and said he would lift them in accordance with demands from the same Congress that installed him after a June 28 coup....
Then STAND ASIDE and LET ZELAYA ASSUME his office as the PEOPLE HAVE DEMANDED!!!!
He also repeated his pledge not to attack the Brazilian Embassy, where Zelaya has been holed up with 60 supporters since sneaking back into the country on Sept. 21. He even sent “a big hug’’ to Brazil’s president, a day after giving him a 10-day ultimatum to expel Zelaya or move him to Brazil.
Awwwww, isn't the usurping coup-criminal so cuddly?
The increasingly authoritarian measures by the government had prompted international condemnation, though the US representative to the Organization of American States also had harsh words for Zelaya, calling his return to Honduras “irresponsible and foolish.’’
Pffft!
The Micheletti government says Zelaya supporters are planning a violent insurrection.
Lesson: ALL GOVERNMENTS LIE!
So far, protests have seen little bloodshed - the government says three people have been killed since the coup, while protesters put the number at 10. Protest leader Juan Barahona said that could change. “This mass movement is peaceful, but to the extent they repress us, fence us in and make this method useless, we have to find some other form of struggle,’’ he said.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" -- President John F Kennedy
What an amazingly perceptive man. No wonder they blew his head off.
Micheletti made clear that even if the emergency measures are lifted, “that doesn’t mean the police are going back to barracks.’’
Yesterday’s march drew hundreds of people, many of whom covered their mouths with tape to protest censorship. Protest leaders insisted that thousands more were trying to join but were stopped from leaving poorer neighborhoods or from traveling from the countryside.
And OBAMA is SO SILENT on the issue!!!
“There is brutal repression against the people,’’ Zelaya told the Associated Press in a telephone interview yesterday.
The emergency decree issued Sunday bans unauthorized gatherings and lets police arrest people without warrants, rights guaranteed in the Honduran Constitution. It also allows authorities to shut news media for “statements that attack peace and the public order, or which offend the human dignity of public officials, or attack the law.’’
The increasingly authoritarian actions by the interim government signaled a shift in strategy after appealing for foreign support and arguing it ousted Zelaya to preserve democracy....
Yeah, so NOTHING REALLY CHANGING, just a lot of arm motion!
Maybe they need a push:
"Honduran elites push for return to stability; Seek to restore ousted president" by Mark Stevenson, Associated Press | October 1, 2009
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Business and political leaders who backed the coup overthrowing President Manuel Zelaya now are considering the unthinkable: returning him to office with limited powers.
The reversal, and Zelaya’s decision to consider it, reflect the growing desperation to resolve a three-month standoff that has turned this Central American country upside down....
The crisis sparked by the June 28 ousting of Zelaya has paralyzed the already impoverished nation. Honduras has been bleeding millions of dollars a day, and many of its most prominent executives have had their visas revoked by the United States, hampering their efforts to do business.
See? When the RUBBER hits the ROAD it is the $$$ that MATTERS MOST!!!
Nations have cut aid to demand the ousted leader’s reinstatement while sporadic spikes in tensions have forced the closure of airports, border crossings, and factories. The final straw was the interim government’s decision this week to impose a surprise emergency decree that suspended civil liberties and further damaged the administration’s image at home and abroad....
After that happened, Honduras’ powerful elite told Micheletti enough is enough, and back- room negotiations began on a powerful business chamber’s proposition to put Zelaya back in office with limited powers. Zelaya, who sneaked back into the country on Sept. 21, has said he was encouraged by the proposal and hoped to be in talks with its authors by yesterday.
Its chief proponent, Adolfo Facusse, president of the National Industry Chamber that vocally supported Zelaya’s ouster, suggests sending 3,000 troops from conservative-led nations to Honduras if the leftist leader is restored to office to ensure he does not overstep his limited authority. Facusse said that the force could be UN peacekeepers.
Oh, so this is JUST A WAY to GET the GLOBALIST UN involved, huh?
Why not use "leftist-led" troops from Bolivia, Brazil, and Venezuela?
He said he discussed parts of the plan with Micheletti, including a proposal to make the interim president a congressman-for-life.
Yeah, NOTHING LIKE being REWARDED for executing a COUP against a DEMOCRATICALLY-ELECTED President, 'eh?
Micheletti yesterday called parts of the plan impossible but indicated he was analyzing some points.
Why does it need a war criminal's approval?
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