Zelaya Seeks to Hold Support After Honduras Ouster in U.S. Trip

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Zelaya Seeks to Hold Support After Honduras Ouster in U.S. Trip
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By Matthew Walter and Andres R. Martinez

July 7 (Bloomberg) -- Honduras’s deposed President Manuel Zelaya arrives in Washington today to seek a meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and maintain international support for his reinstatement.

The ousted leader is planning a second attempt to enter his country after he was expelled nine days ago, as demonstrations in Honduras turned violent. Supporters of Zelaya and those backing the transitional government plan protests today in the capital, Tegucigalpa.

“You have a standoff,” said Riordan Roett, director of Western Hemisphere Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. “The best thing you can do is try to negotiate early elections.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=acfQ6OCSxKMA

Readying in between the lines... WE HAVE NEVER met with a deposed head of state from the LEFT.

This tells me that indeed we are now acting, in quiet ways.

For many HISTORICAL reasons the US cannot take an openly leading role, and if I have to translate this to people... sorry

All I can say is patience grasshoppers. This seems to be going the way of the diplomatic route, which at times is even slower than your neighborhood court system. Oh and for those who support this coup. I am sure they will change their mind if Zelaya is brought back to power...

:sarcasm:

[Peace Patriot]

1. Reading between the lines is certainly needed, given the disinformation in this

Bloomberg article.

To understand what's really going on in Honduras, I recommend Evo Golllinger's research into the International Republican Institute and USAID/NED funding and activities in Honduras. It is highly enlightening. She totally nails it.

http://www.chavezcode.com/

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The disinformation in the Bloomberg article starts in the first sentence--that Zelaya is trying to "maintain international support for his reinstatement." Zelaya has overwhelming international support for his reinstatement. Even the rightwing governments in overwhelmingly leftist Latin America are backing his reinstatement. Latin American countries have all suspended trade and withdrawn their ambassadors from Honduras. Only the U.S. is dragging its feet. Zelaya is trying to undrag the Obama administration's feet. He is not trying to "maintain international support."

"...as demonstrations in Honduras turned violent." --Bloomberg. This is a foul and slanderous lie! Zelaya supporters did not "turn violent." The Honduran military turned its US-funded rifles on Zelaya's supporters at the airport, killing at least one person--a 16 year old boy--and wounding many.

And pro-democracy demonstrators ought to be picketing "Riordan Roett, director of Western Hemisphere Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University." How do you hold an election under martial law, with at least 600 political prisoners in jail, opposition media shut down and all civil rights suspended? Hm? Ye gods.

They fucking shot up the presidential palace, dragged the elected president out of his bed at gunpoint and put him on a plane with blackened windows to another country! Trusting these people to hold an election is like trusting Karl Rove to hold an election!

This is a straight-up rightwing "talking point" --that moving the November election up, and holding the election now, is somehow going to produce democracy and legitimacy in Honduras, when of course the opposite is intended--that the fascist coupsters will fix the election to endorse themselves.

Maybe a year from now--with the election totally in the control of the OAS elections team, and maybe UN peacekeepers present--a fair election could be held. It cannot be held now. It likely cannot be held in November, with rightwing controlled Honduran troops everywhere and people scared out of their minds to vote against the coupsters, let alone speak up in favor of leftist candidates. Indeed, who would dare run for office in these conditions? It is ridiculous. They would be risking their lives--as Zelaya did yesterday, trying to return to his country. Many Hondurans are clearly courageous. I salute those hundreds of thousands who marched to the airport! And I salute the legislators who spoke out against the coup and were evicted from the kangaroo legislative proceedings. And all others who have protested. But an election held now would be a farce. And that apparently is what this Johns Hopkins luminary supports: a farce of a democracy; a joke. So much for his credibility!

Note: I am not blaming the poster for the OP. It is what it is. But we need to read these corpo/fascist 'news' articles with a very wary and critical eye. The rightwing "talking points" and disinformation and psyops and propaganda are often slipped in under the surface of things--a subtext that we are not supposed to notice. Yeah, you're supposed to think, an election would be a good idea, ain't that democracy? In this case, in these circumstances, no, it is not. It is a subversion of democracy. The idea of moving up the election came directly from the coupsters. I read in two days ago. They now have complete military control of the country, and of course they want an election now--after throwing the elected leader out of the country! Sheesh.