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 Honduras Talks Fall ApartPosted on Oct 23, 2009
Despite overwhelming international support and the fact that he was removed in an illegal coup, Manuel Zelaya is still having problems winning reinstatement as Honduras’ president: Talks between the interim government and his ousted administration collapsed Thursday. The interim government may be trying to drag things out until a general election on Nov. 29. —JCL
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By Chris Herz, October 24, 2009 at 7:08 pm Link to this comment
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Everyone knows that a government which cannot support with total commitment corporate neo-liberalism has no place in the Americas.
Report thisBy ardee, October 24, 2009 at 1:21 pm Link to this comment
Aaron Ortiz, October 23 at 9:35 pm #
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The reason this is not going forward is that reinstatement of a former president is explicitly forbidden by the Honduran Constitution
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A shame, Mr. Ortiz, that your constitution does not forbid the kidnapping and exiling of a duly elected leader…..
Report thisBy grumpynyker, October 24, 2009 at 7:49 am Link to this comment
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Zelaya is another Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a
Report thischampion for the poor of his country. King Obama and
his corrupt court will not allow him to finish his term
until he recants his support for Chavez style reforms.
By Folktruther, October 24, 2009 at 6:53 am Link to this comment
The Honduras plutocracy can only hold out against the combind weight of all of Latin America with the support of the US and Obama. Obama here does what he was installed in the presidency for; inspiring rhetoric against the coup, and supporting it secretly.
Obama duplicy is becoming a byword in the political consensus. It is up to Louise, diamand, Outranged and the other Dems to tell us how oppression is actually freedom and lies, truth.
Report thisBy ardee, October 24, 2009 at 6:02 am Link to this comment
Despite the assurances of certain one time or first time posters who come flooding into forums like this one to assure us all the the coup was a democratic and legal action I am certain most of us know better.
True democracy means legal procedures, not kidnapping at the point of a gun and exiling an elected leader, still in his pajamas, to Costa Rica. That this coup was engineered by the wealthiest business leaders, fearing Zelaya’s increasing leftward slant might mean honest business dealings, fair employment practices and a curtailing of rampant profit making on the backs of Honduran working poor seems obvious.
That Honduras is the hub of the USA so-called “war on drugs” and thus contains hundreds if not thousands of US police and military officials and workers is a sidebar one might consider when wondering about outside assistance in this coup.
Report thisBy Gertrude Reagan (Myrrh), October 23, 2009 at 9:42 pm Link to this comment
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As a person who is involved with projects in El Salvador, I fear that right-wing thugs there and in Guatemala and Nicaragua will be tempted to do copy-cat actions against those governments.
The win of the FMLN in El Salvador recently has been a boon to ordinary people.
Report thisBy Aaron Ortiz, October 23, 2009 at 6:35 pm Link to this comment
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The reason this is not going forward is that reinstatement of a former president is explicitly forbidden by the Honduran Constitution
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