Juan Almendares Interviewed about Honduras on DEM NOW.- Zelaya in DOMINICAN REP??

[magbana]

Anyone heard about where Zelaya went?

"Costa Rica Hosts Talks Over Honduras Coup
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Talks between the ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the leaders of last week’s military coup began on Thursday in Costa Rica. Zelaya and the military-backed Roberto Micheletti met separately with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias but there were no face-to-face meetings between the two sides.

Dr. Juan Almendares, Honduran medical doctor and award-winning human rights activist. He is the President of the Honduran Peace Committee as well as the past Secretary of the Coordinating Committee of Popular Organizations. He was an opposition candidate with the Democratic Unification Party during the last presidential elections.
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JUAN GONZALEZ: Talks between the ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the leaders of last week’s military coup began on Thursday in Costa Rica. Zelaya and the military-backed Roberto Micheletti met separately with Costa Rican President Oscar Arias but there were no face-to-face meetings between the two sides. To talk about the latest developments we are joined by Dr. Juan Almendares in Honduras. He is an award-winning human rights activist and President of the Honduran Peace Committee as well as the past Secretary of the Coordinating Committee of Popular Organizations. He was an opposition candidate with the Democratic Unification Party during the last presidential elections. Welcome to “Democracy Now! again

DR. JUAN ALMENDARES: Good morning. It is a great honor to be on “Democracy Now!”

JUAN GONZALEZ: Tell us what the latest as a result of the talks that were not face-to-face talks in fact,

DR. JUAN ALMENDARES: Well, we believe it’s impossible to have a dialogue with the alcones I don’t know how to pronounce it, the walks. This deer is a hunter We have the alcones inside Honduras and they’re very strong supporting and talking about the militaries, who have been repressive and also the ruling-class who is highly conservative, who have support from ultra-right-wing people from the U.S. from Europe. So they feel strong in the military sense in the repressive sense, in violation of the human rights. So they are violating the human rights of the people of Honduras and they’re talking about dialogue. I think any dialogs is positive. The strategy they have is a dialogue at the national level, but with machine guns. And in the international level, they want to have a dialogue. They are trying to win time in the process, but this is a hard line in a very repressive, its a racist hard-line. One of the chancellors of this regime, he was making racist statements about president Obama. Now they change him to another position, to the position of justice. So that’s a kind of… a….

AMY GOODMAN: Dr. Juan Almendares just to clarify, the man that the coup regime put in place as the foreign minister had said several times about President Obama, called him “the little black man who knows nothing about anything.” So they have moved him into justice?

DR. JUAN ALMENDARES:Yes, now he is a minister of justice. So, at the international community, we have to understand these are like Pinochet regime.

AMY GOODMAN: We only have a minute, but just the latest. The word is that Michelleti, he left after his meeting with the Nobel Laureate, President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias. And also that Mel Zelaya, the ousted Honduran president left and is now in the Dominican Republic? Is that right?

DR. JUAN ALMENDARES: Well, we don’t know where he was going, president Zelaya maybe Guatemala or …Dominican Republic, but I am not sure. But what I want to say is the resistance movements is posing the issue in the way that the problem is not only the constitutional restitution and coming back President Zelaya, the problem is people want a new constitution. People want assembly. People want more participation, more actors in the process. So, this is very important because they had to be in the table. They cannot only be discussions between Michelleti and Zelaya. People want to claim justice, justice and justice.

AMY GOODMAN: We want to thank you very much for being with us, Dr. Juan Almendares. He actually opposed Mel Zelaya in the last election, lost, president Zelaya won. Now he has been…President Zelaya has been ousted. We will continue to follow what has been taken place this story Dr. Juan Almendares speaking to us from Tegucigalpa."
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/7/10/costa_rica_hosts_talk_over_honduras

[magbana]

1. Ain't it Amazing: If you use Google you can answer your own questions --Zelaya is in DR

"Zelaya Meets Fernandez in Dominican Republic
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By Redaction AHORA / Friday, 10 July 2009 / [e-mail]

Honduran Constitutional President Manuel Zelaya began talks here Friday with his Dominican peer Leonel Fernandez shortly after his arrival at Las Americas International Airport.

The leader arrived at nearly 7:00 (11:00 GMT) on a private flight and was welcomed by the Presidency Secretary Cesar Pina Toribio.

Zelaya's visit was announced Thursday afternoon by presidential spokesman who only talked about his arrival and meeting with Dominican President.

Zelaya was welcome with military honors at the National Palace, Executive headquarters, in Gazcue central district and immediately met his host. / PL
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http://www.ahora.cu/english/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1813&Itemid=29

[rabs]

2. Saw last night were Zelaya was going to DR

Figured that did not bode well for the "mediation" in San Jose.

Zelaya has become a pinball-machine ball, bouncing around the hemisphere. Talk about a president with no country.

Earlier this week read that he would try to enter Honduras again, but this time it would not be announced when or where, but apparently it would be by land.

[magbana]

4. Well, if Zelaya is looking for muscle to get back to Honduras, the DR is

one of the most militarized countries in Latin America. Problem is the DR is essentially a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US. Every bit of military equipment they have is courtesy of the US. Also, Leonel Fernandez is kind of slithery and I can only think that Zelaya is being videotaped and bugged. Fernandez could be treacherous.

Lest you think that I'm dissing the whole country, I'm not. The best vacation I ever had was in the DR. By making sure that we didn't stay at any touristy places we met a lot of Dominicans who were warm and fun and we developed lasting friendships with them.

[EFerrari]

3. What a farce. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

5. Hope Zelaya will be completely SAFE wherever he is.

It would be a monumental crime if these filthy clowns are not pried out of their stolen places in a formerly democratic government.

The age of evil racist tyrants is sliding into the past, despite the most hysterical efforts by their sociopathic supporters to re-destroy the new democracies and re-seize the hemisphere. This death throe should be short if there's any justice.