Ousted Honduran president says he has met with interim government official and begun dialogue

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ousted Honduran president says he has met with interim government official and begun dialogue
The Associated Press

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Ousted Honduran president says he has met with interim government official and begun dialogue.


Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ousted-honduran-president-says-146234.html

[L. Coyote]

1. Recent Honduras News compilation thread here:

As if anyone cares! Here they unrec the thread.
What if they had a democracy movment in Latin America and no one showed up?
That's DU!

Pres. Zelaya in Honduras, in the Brazilian embassy. Police Kill Two Anti-Coup Protesters
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6620246

[Judi Lynn]

2. Thanks for the link to that thread. Appreciate it. n/t

[bluesmail]

3. Your other recent LBN about the IMF recognizing Zelaya's

legitimacy as President had me wondering what their hidden agenda would manifest itself as.

[bemildred]

4. Zelaya: Day 4, Carter brokers

Jimmy Carter is brokering on behalf of former (debatable) President Zelaya of Honduras…presently, in-residence at the Brazil’s Tegucigalpa Embassy. Will Honduras’ military be stupid enough to storm diplomatic real estate?

Suggest that the government of Honduras, restore water, power and phone service to the Brazilian Embassy. By creating a siege event, this runs the risk of further bloodshed and further taint their murky legitimacy, such as it is. The world is watching…maybe not closely enough, but the governments of Central and South America know this is a precedent-setting event.

Is President Obama sanctioning Carter’s efforts, or is Jimmy doing his own well-intentioned diplomacy…again?

The interim government of Honduras appears rather nervous today and nervous is not good in stand-offs. Nervous people end up doing stupid things like violating diplomatic immunity. Zelaya in the meantime stirs up the masses saying his life is in danger from mercenaries hired to deal with him.

http://voices.kansascity.com/node/5999

[bemildred]

5. US backs Honduras invite for top diplomats

WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday welcomed an invitation by Honduras's de facto leaders for senior international diplomats to visit the country, in a bid to end the simmering crisis there.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said de facto foreign minister Carlos Lopez Contreras had invited "a representative group of foreign ministers" from members of the Organization of American States to go to Tegucigalpa for talks.

"We welcome that announcement and we look forward to supporting that initiative," Kelly said.

Tensions have flared in the Central American nation since ousted President Manuel Zelaya returned earlier this week and holed up in Brazil's embassy in the capital Tegucigalpa.

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