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Posted on 11/18/2009 4:59:40 PM PST by don-o
TEGUCIGALPA — A top US envoy said Wednesday that Honduran elections were key to resolving the crisis set off by the June 28 coup, despite the rejection of the polls by ousted leader Manuel Zelaya.
"The elections are an important part of the solution in order to advance," said US deputy assistant secretary for the Western Hemisphere Craig Kelly, in comments to journalists 11 days before the presidential polls.
Zelaya, who has been holed up in the Brazilian embassy since his surprise return home on September 21, has called on his supporters to boycott the polls after the latest crisis deal failed to return him to office beforehand.
Top regional powers Brazil and Argentina underlined Wednesday that they will not recognize the results if Zelaya is not first restored to power.
Kelly was in Honduras in the latest bid to revive a US-brokered deal to end the crisis, which has thrown the Central American nation into deeper poverty and polarization.
Under the October 30 deal, both sides agreed that Congress would vote on whether to return Zelaya.
But the agreement set no timetable for the 128-member body to vote, and the president of Congress said Tuesday that it would to decide on whether to reinstate Zelaya three days after the November 29 elections.
The US State Department insisted Wednesday that the Congress decision did not undermine the accord.
"Since the accord never actually gave any kind of deadline... scheduling the vote on December 2nd... isn't necessarily inconsistent," spokesman Ian Kelly told journalists.
Kelly said that the democratically-elected president "has to be restored before the end of his term." Zelaya's term expires on January 27.
"We will decide how to -- how to pronounce on the election when we see how it is conducted," Kelly added.
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In other words, somebody in the Obozo administration was smart enough to figure out that the Hondurans were going to do what they wanted to do whether Obozo approved or not.
The communist bastard Zelaya can pack up his stuff at 11:55 P.M. on January 26.
Smart power fizzled out even in Honduras. Good for the Hondurans.
I wrote here months ago that I thought that obama would reject the election results as not having been run by a legitimate government. It now looks like the big O is realizing that he really doesn’t need a crisis in our backyard (on top of the royal fluster-cluck his regime has already created).
Honduras to Obama: “FU.”
Don-o! The State Department has completely turned on Zelaya. They made absolute fools of themselves by jumping in before they knew the circumstances. This is a complete rout. They have done a 180 degree turn and are now where they should have been last summer. Oh the irony.
Obama’s State Department threatened that the elections would not be seen as legitimate.
Another retreat for Obama in order to claim credit for a solution that was in spite of him.
With that “Abraham Lincoln” comment, Zelaya has proven himself to the world that he is absolutely crazy and has some sort of nervous breakdown.
Amateurs! fornicating amateurs in the US State Department.
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