Posted on 12/20/2010 8:05:48 PM PST by GlockThe Vote
"The last year and a half of the [President Manuel] Zelaya Administration will be, in my view, extraordinarily difficult for our bilateral relationship. His pursuit of immunity from the numerous activities of organized crime carried out in his administration will cause him to threaten the rule of law and institutional stability."
—Charles Ford, U.S. ambassador to Honduras, May 15, 2008
Lots of hypotheses have been floated to explain why the Obama administration went to such extremes last year to try to force Honduras to reinstate deposed president Manuel Zelaya.
Now the release of two WikiLeaked cables from the U.S. embassy in Tegucigalpa strengthens one of those theories: that the U.S. knew Mr. Zelaya was a threat to democratic Honduras but had decided the country should tolerate his constitutional violations in the interest of realpolitik.
Practically speaking, Hugo Chávez was the man to please. After a decade in power, the president of Venezuela's influence around the region was notable. George W. Bush had clashed with him. Barack Obama was out to prove that they could get along, as evidenced by the warm handshake at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain in April 2009.
Honduras offered a bonding opportunity. Mr. Zelaya was a protégé of Mr. Chávez. Standing up for him as democratically elected was a way to score points with Latin America's hard left.
At a 2008 conference in Caracas, Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez hugs then-President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras.
.But Honduras wasn't willing to play the sacrificial lamb. When its other branches of government removed him from office last year, it caught Hugo Llorens, the U.S. ambassador, flat-footed. Saving face became the top priority.
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This is news?
Praise God for wikileaks. This is a bombshell.
Obamao is a real revoultionary...in the mold of Che, not George Washington.
Oh please, who didn’t already know this?
If you recall Jim Demint went down to Honduras to support the government ouster of this commie wanting to install a Hugo Chavez style dictatorship, against the wishes of Obamao and Hitlery.
No secret there.
He will deny this jus like he denied every hearing Rev Jeremiah Wright preach anything that did claim G-d daman america. come now we have to understand that the Us has the most unhonest president in the history of the world. The guy is so corrupt that he makes Bernie Madoff look like a saint.
I do remember that but here is the absolute smoking gun.
Hugo Chavez and Barack Obama: kindred spirits.
We all knew this months before the Honduran elections. And many of my friends helped expose this bas__rd for what he is/was/will be. And the help of Sen. Demint.
The only thing that made Obozo back away was exposure of the Brazilian offshore oil deal through the Export/Import Bank as payoff for supporting “Mel” Zelaya’s return to power. Professional Courtesy one Commie to another.
FUBO!
FUMEL!
FULULA!
FUOAS!
Obamao is a real revoultionary...in the mold of Che, not George Washington.
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Standard Democrat policy, domestic and foreign.
I'm still waiting breathlessly for Wikileaks to release the cables, emails and other documentation that validate:
- the Truthers’ theory that George Bush orchestrated the 911 hijackings,
- that the CIA is responsible for the AIDS epidemic,
- that Bush knew that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction before invading Iraq,
- that Barack Hussein Obama was born in the United States to the people he claims are his mother and father,
- that provide a definitive record of Obama’s college transcript and campus activities,
etc., etc.
The list, ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Gotta read this tomorrow.
yup, both pro Iranian and proudly anti American.
Remember the good old days when it was the Soviets who supported commie dictators in our hemisphere.
Obviously wikileaks isn’t going to do any of these things. Instead they’ll continue to release things that are already known or suspected in hopes of stirring anger among Americans.
Just think, after Christmas we all get to be mad at the banks some more.
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