Posted on 11/12/2009 3:39:02 PM PST by La Lydia
...Ousted president Manuel Zelaya, who was expelled by the military in June, said in a telephone interview that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had assured him as recently as last week that the U.S. government was seeking his return to the presidency. But he said that U.S. pressure had eased in recent days and that he no longer had faith in the agreement....The Obama administration has invested its credibility in the Oct. 30 accord, which was reached after Clinton dispatched a senior diplomatic team to bring the two sides together. ...
"The State Department's abrupt change of policy towards Honduras last week -- recognizing the elections scheduled for Nov. 29 even if the coup regime does not meet its commitments under the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord -- caused the collapse of an accord it helped negotiate," said Frederick L. Jones, a spokesman for Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John F. Kerry (D-Mass.).
Zelaya said he was finished with the agreement.
"Everything they do will be tricks," he said, referring to the de facto government led by Roberto Micheletti. He said U.S. guarantees had formed the underpinning for the agreement.
"Their priorities were my restitution. . . . This is a very dangerous change of foreign policy for the United States," he said.
State Department spokesman Philip J. Crowley said there had been no change in policy.
Another senior U.S. official noted the agreement never specifically said that Zelaya would be reinstated, instead giving the Honduran National Congress the power to vote on it. Zelaya may have decided to back out of the accord after realizing his support in Congress was softer than he initially thought, said the official, who was not authorized to comment publicly....
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Perhaps he is not worth reinstating, duh?!
Who the heck in the US gov even thought about trying to reinstate this bozo?
Hillary is a liar.
So is Manny hoping to make us angry or something?
LOL
I wasn’t talking about the truth of the statement. I was pointing out that if you want the US Secretary of State to take actions in your favor, and to your benefit, you don’t start out by calling her a liar.
But you can't say it out loud unless you want to be hit with an ashtray or a lamp.
bttt
Of course not. Many, including myself will agree with Zelaya.
Z has nothing to lose now so can blame all his problems on the US and not himself or his polices that led to his ouster.
I’m sure he gained additional points with Chavez over his statement.
Zelaya is done. Lets hope we don’t give him a place to retire here in the US.
Note to Manuel Zelaya: You were ousted for failure to follow the Honduran Constitution. We’d like to do the same with our, um, president.
The guy isn’t that bright, is he?
Still, he gambled and lost. He wanted to be the next Chavez and instead he’s just a guy sleeping on a borrowed couch who won’t leave.
He thought the agreement was a last ditch effort to save his coup d’etat from final failure, and didn’t realize that no, it was just a face-saver for those governments who had backed him and now wanted rid of him.
The elections he tried to thwart are going forward. He could have left with his head up and his chosen succesor taking his place in the palace. Instead he betrayed everyone and now finds himself irrelevant. Its over.
Pretty soon speaking out against this banana republic will land you a lifetime in jail.
So I better shut up.
Shannon's comments on the elections coincided with an announcement by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) that he would no longer block Shannon's nomination as ambassador to Brazil. DeMint said he made the decision after Shannon told him that the U.S. government would recognize the Nov. 29 Honduran election results whether or not Zelaya was back in the presidency.
What business did we have butting into this in the first place?
But Zelaya is a bigger liar and delusional..I would believe Hillary far more than Zelaya...known as Zeliar by many.
This shows how stupid the communists really are. It is easy to out think them, but first you have to admit they are there and what they are up to, a head in the sand approach doesn't work.
Life in Jail for not agreeing with them..not likely..but we did flip the entire world the bird when they told us to reinstate Zelaya...
1. why would we reinstate someone who wants to sit in power as a dictator?
2. Why do we want to associate ourselves with an antisemite? especially one whose biggest cheerleader raped his ten year old daughter at his birthday party...as a present to himself and the same mental midget thinks that Hitler is a hero that should have been allowed to finish the Holocaust..and he said it on live radio and the groups like Amnesty International chit a brick when we took him off air...I could only shake my head.
3. Why do we want to reinstate someone who before he is reinstated has already started to call upon a boycott of the elections and deny people the right to vote? The same person who is already directing murders and kidnappings of family members of political figures?
4.Why do we want a drug trafficker who hid Chapo Guzman´s mafia thugs and Chapo in the mountains of Santa Barbara...yes, he did we found the landing strip, ranch, cows, drugs, and all..just days ago...they abandoned the country after the removal of Zelaya and it was known as the Mexican ranch in the area..now why would a Mexican come live in Honduras? I understand Americans doing it and Americans married to Hondurans...but Mexicans already live in a Latin American country and they don´t move south...they move north...unless they are drug smugglers and the president is in their pockets.
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