Posted on 10/30/2009 12:02:19 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Deposed President Manuel Zelaya and his opponents have agreed to a U.S.-brokered deal that he said will return him to power four months after a coup shook faith in Latin America's young democracies.
The power-sharing agreement reached late Thursday calls for Congress to decide whether to reinstate the leftist Zelaya. While the legislature backed his June 28 ouster, congressional leaders have since said they won't stand in the way of an agreement that ends Honduras' diplomatic isolation and legitimizes presidential elections planned for Nov. 29.
Assistant U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Shannon said Friday that the two sides finally made concessions after realizing the international community wouldn't recognize the elections or restore aid without a compromise.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon (L) and OAS delegate Victor Rico (R) announce the end of the political crisis in Tegucigalpa, on October 29. Manuel Zelaya looked set to be reinstated, pending approval from Congress, as rival sides in Honduras finalized a deal Friday to end months of political paralysis. (AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)
Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya speaks during a meeting inside the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa October 28, 2009. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
Throw this in the face of the leftists who complained non stop about Reagan involved in Central/South American affairs.
The de facto leader of Honduras Roberto Micheletti gives a press conference at the presidential palace in Tegucigalpa on October 29. Ousted President Manuel Zelaya looked set to be reinstated, pending approval from Congress, as rival sides in Honduras finalized a deal Friday to end months of political paralysis. (AFP/File/Yuri Cortez)
He uses an Apple?
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya speaks to journalists at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa. Zelaya looked set to be reinstated, pending approval from Congress, as rival sides in Honduras finalized a deal Friday to end months of political paralysis. (AFP/Orlando Sierra)
Oh yeah.
George Washington warned about foreign entanglements..
This makes me sick. I have never been ashamed of my country like I am now.
Zelaya can say whatever he wants, but the deal is that the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court would decide his fate. The Supreme Court will say that he cannot be returned to power, and Congress will agree. The decision will probably come after the Nov. 29 elections, and Zelaya won’t be able to do a damn thing when the Honduran institutions announce that the law is clear and Zelaya is constitutionally forbidden from returning to power.
Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya: “ All it took to regain power was for Obama to threaten to assasinate Micheletti”
I agree. However, I do think the Monroe Doctrine does have a point.
One of the problems of begging richer countries for money is that they think they should run your politics. Good thing we aren't in... no wait, we are in that very position of begging for cash constantly.
What happens if it looks like Obama is going to lose in 2012, but then China publicly threatens to cut off our line of credit if we don't reelect him?
I think this is just to save face for Obama, who was determined to crush Honduras even after a UN report (believe it or not) came out and said Honduras had acted perfectly correctly in dealing with Zelaya, with the exception of expelling him rather than imprisoning him.
It requires the approval of the legislature and supreme court. Also, Zelaya fought against it and had to be forced to accept it, so I think he knows it’s not what he’s saying it is.
That said, it is shameful that Obama did this. But the Marxist Muslim has no shame. It’s all about him, in his tiny pea-sized brain.
Honuras really blew it by A) letting Zelaya stage a comeback campaign and B) assuming the US is anti-communist/for the rule of law when the dems are in power.
The congressmen could pay a high political cost if they restitute him. Also they could be fearfull of the dissolution of the congress in retaliation for his destitution. this applies to the SC too. Then when he refuses to carry elections will the State Dept. force him to hold them or claim that thay “don’t meddle in internal affairs of sovereign countries”?
“after a coup shook faith in Latin America’s young democracies”
Faith amongst whom? Those who already prefer dictators?
“The de facto leader of Honduras Roberto Micheletti”
Uh, would that be de jure? Down the memory hole goes the truth.
me too. I am no longer proud to be an American.
I really hope you are correct, but I suspect that all sorts of pressure and inducements have been brought to bear against the members of the legislature to assure a favorable vote to return Zelaya to power. Then there will be constitutional changes and Zelaya will stay in power. The US MSM will turn away and Michiletti and other troublesome individuals will be imprisoned or killed. Obama will chalk up the accomplishment.
Is he even going to be allowed to run for re election? That alone is contrary to the Honduran constitution and if he runs and gets re elected the courts and the legislature in Honduras won’t be able to do a damn thing about it since all this stupidity on the part of our govt will start all over again.
Where were you when “we” bombed Serbia?
Can we use “Monroe” against OBAMA?
One Marxist helps another.
If Zelaya returns he will return for ‘life’ and the recriminations and list of the ‘disappeared’ will surpass even El Salvador. But, as long as Zelaya is Hugo Chavez’ and Obama’s butt-boy it will be all sweetness and light with another ‘peoples’ dictatorship.
Same here. For the first time in my life I am ashamed to be an American.
I think I was just becoming a freeper about that time and just getting into politics. I wasn't sure which side was right, but our republican brothers in the Senate supported Clinton on it, and I'm always behind our military (see my alias). My son's squadron commander was an F16 pilot during that war.
I would hope that a proud member of the Honduran Military would take the proper action and solve the problem!
I know some Hondurans and they are telling me that if the legislature goes along with this they will be out of office in the next go around.
I think this is a compromise that will be honored to the letter and will result in Mel not taking office.
Hussein and the Hildebeast are not friends of freedom. Power hungry thugs that need to be contained, period.
Marxists Obama and Zelaya are birds of a feather
The Chinese could threaten to cut off our line of credit and the Russians will probably threaten to nuke us (and cut off the oil supply and end our credit) if we vote Obama out.
No, he can’t run for reelection, and Zelaya did not demand that he be allowed to run; he’s asking to be reinstated until the term ends in January. But he won’t even get that.
“George Washington warned about foreign entanglements..”
Too bad noone listened.
That's also why 'bipartisan' has such a bad name - it always seems to be an agreement to do things the way the left wants them done. (Or in 1999, the way Germany, France and their allies wanted it done)
I've met guys who flew over Hanoi and would be interested in hearing them compare their experience with flying bomb runs over Belgrade.
There were some pretty heated discussions in FR during the '99 happenings.
Damn.
Thanks for that link..
Keep in mind this was 2 or 3 days before the US delegation arrived.
FR thread
Honduras leader’s nephew killed (Micheletti’s nephew)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371664/posts
It’s no surprise to me that this is the response of this
Administration to the Zelaya issue.
The way I see it is that Obama identifies with Zelaya.
He sees Zelaya as having already ‘gone through’ what Obama himself will possibly go through in 6-8 months. Zelaya offers a kind of remote test case to see what might be possible for usurpers like both of them, how their cases might be ‘reconciled’.
Pray for Honduras. I fully expect Zelaya to pull some sort of “get back” maneuver over this, sanctioned by the poser in the White House.
Wait a minute...I thought the US didn’t meddle in other countries affairs.
BTT
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