Posted on 10/30/2009 5:13:11 AM PDT by Scanian
Details are sketchy but it appears the months long crisis in Honduras is close to being over thanks to an agreement between the legitimate government headed by President Roberto Micheletti and Chavez wannabe Manuel Zelaya that was dictated by the United States government.
The agreement calls for the return of Zelaya to power. In return, the US promised to recognize the result of the elections scheduled for the end of November.
The Voice of America is reporting:
"Mr. Micheletti said late Thursday he has authorized his negotiating team to sign an agreement that "marks the beginning of the end" of the four-month political standoff. Congress must approve the deal. Mr. Zelaya said he is "optimistic" that the agreement will return him to power.
Speaking in Islamabad, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hailed the agreement as "historic."
The apparent breakthrough followed pressure from senior U.S. officials who are in Honduras. Earlier Thursday, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Thomas Shannon, said the rival sides had to reach an accord to ensure international support for the upcoming presidential elections in November.
Mr. Zelaya was expelled from Honduras in a June 28 coup, with opponents accusing him of trying to illegally change the constitution to extend his term in office.
The ousted leader secretly returned to the country in mid-September and took refuge at the Brazilian mission.
The Micheletti government has filed a formal complaint against Brazil with the International Court of Justice in The Hague for sheltering Mr. Zelaya.
The Obama administration had preferred to let the Organization of American States and its designated mediator, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, take the lead role in Honduran diplomacy.
But, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decided...
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I hope the Honduran military puts Zelaya in jail upon arrival.
I am SOOOOO ashamed of my country’s leaders.....soooo very ashamed.
This is INSANE!...............................
The interim president of Honduras should arrest the former president upon his arrival.
The purpose of the return is to ignote a fire and to prevent the end of Nov. elections from ever taking place.
Let’s hope the people of Honduras don’t fall for this obvious ploy.
First Odinga in Kenya, now Zelaya in Honduras. Obama is a friend to evil wherever he can find it.
Zero and the beast finally found someone they could brow beat. After only nine months.
And just like Jimmah, it’s a commie.
Of the many affronts of the Obama Administration’s foreign policy efforts, this may be the most outrageous.
This is for all the idiots who claim Her Heinous would be better than Hussein. She wouldn’t.
If Zer0 can tell Honduras how its constitution and government should work, I likewise think he’ll be only too happy to let the UN and the IMF tell us how to run ours.
You may be right...but I think sympathy for commies and Chavistas is the more likely explanation.
Obama is looking ahead to 2016 and trying to get around the two-term limit. All good leftist leaders want to be President for Life.
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