Herald article shows mediator Arias ALSO arranged to get a second term!

[Judi Lynn]

(This may make the coup plotters' fury about their claim Zelaya intended to get a second term seem a little too close for comfort!)
Mediator is at home as peacemaker
Costa Rica's president is bringing persistence, a Nobel Peace Prize and a passion for demilitarization to the task of resolving the Honduran crisis.

BY CAROL ROSENBERG
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Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, the man who is seeking to resolve the Honduran crisis in his living room, is a 67-year-old economist and lawyer by training with salt-and-pepper hair, and the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize.

He is also a wealthy aristocrat -- known to many as Don Oscar -- who skillfully overcame his own nation's single-term presidential limit by championing a reinterpretation of the Costa Rican Constitution that allowed him to run and win his current, second term, which runs from 2006 to 2010.

Friends and admirers describe him as a dogged, self-confident conservative, a bit dull by some standards with a professorial air and passion for demilitarizing Central America.

Even as he agreed to mediate the crisis last week, he said Honduras' coup d'etat was an inevitable outcome -- and ''wake-up call for the hemisphere'' -- of the Latin America's bloated militaries, whose costs he estimated at $50 billion this year.

''We should recognize that such events are not random acts,'' he wrote in an opinion page article published last week in American newspapers. ``They are the result of systematic errors and missteps that many of us have been warning about for decades. They are the price we pay for one of our region's greatest follies: its reckless military spending.''

More:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/1138043.html

[Peace Patriot]

1. Ah, the Miami Hexald! It's kind of like getting a puff piece from Rush Limbaugh.

If I were Oscar Arias, I'd be cringing in my palatial library about now--to be fawned over by that lying scum. Aside from mentioning his successful little skirmish with the laws of Costa Rica about his term limit, the article positively gushes about Oscar Arias' many talents, including brokering a deal in Guatemala to let the genocidal murderers of TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND MAYAN VILLAGERS go free, to haunt Guatemala with their heinous fascist plots to this day.

Well, more than anything else, this Miami Hex article teaches us who NOT to trust in the Honduras situation. The accusations about the Obama administration, in cahoots with Insulza (OAS) and Arias, about delay-delay-delay as the coup entrenches itself, are probably true--if this shitrag is so in love with Oscar Arias as the negotiator.

It makes you wonder about that vote on CAFTA that Oscar Arias called in all of his political chips to get passed, by a hair. Was it even dirtier than it looked? It makes you wonder about a lot of things.

But I understand your point in posting this OP. Wanting to be re-elected is not a crime, in and of itself--neither in Honduras, nor Venezuela, nor Colombia, nor Costa Rica, nor the US of A, where FDR was elected to FOUR terms in office (before the Republicans rammed through a term limit on the president, so that no "New Deal" could ever happen here again). Nor is it a crime to propose laws for a VOTE OF THE PEOPLE to permit re-election (Venezuela)--something that Manuel Zelaya in Honduras DID NOT DO*! Where it gets cloudy shading into criminal is when you manipulate laws (Costa Rica), or bribe legislators (Colombia), to extend your term in office--something that NO LEFTIST has done, because, if the elections are transparent, honest and aboveboard, they DON'T NEED to commit cloudy or illegal acts to be elected or re-elected.



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*The entire ADVISORY referendum that Zelaya proposed for a vote of the people--the action that supposedly got him kidnapped at gunpoint and flown out of the country in the middle of the night:

"Do you agree that, during the general elections of November 2009 there should be a fourth ballot to decide whether to hold a Constituent National Assembly that will approve a new political constitution?"

It had absolutely nothing to do with term limits--a BIG LIE that is repeated over and over and over again, about Zelaya, much like the lies about Chavez.