Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Demands Zelaya's Reinstatement

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Demands Reinstatement of Honduran President


HAVANA, Cuba, July 22 (acn) Nobel Peace Prize winner (1980) Adolfo Pérez
Esquivel demanded on Wednesday the reinstatement of constitutional
President José Manuel Zelaya in Honduras, who was forcibly removed from
his post by a military coup d’etat on June 28.

The Argentinean pacifist, now visiting Barcelona, granted an interview
to the Spanish newspaper ADN, of free circulation, and described the
perpetrators of the coup at the impoverished Central American nation as
dictators.

With respect to the participation of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias
in the Honduran crisis, he said that the mediation was a serious
mistake, because it was mediation between a coup perpetrator and a
democratic government, the Prensa Latina news agency reports.

It’s like trying to mix water and cooking oil, because Zelaya represents
legitimacy and Roberto Micheletti, who illegally seized power, is a
dictator, he stressed.

Pérez Esquivel asked US President Barack Obama to adopt a clearer stance
in the face of these events.

Obama has to define his position, he affirmed, since a forceful
condemnation of the coup in Honduras and the recognition of Zelaya would
give him credibility before the Latin American governments.

The human rights fighter considers the attitude of the US President
as “warm”, because –he expressed- he’s aware of the difficulties he’s
facing in the internal front.

Pérez Esquivel admitted that the current occupant of the White House
can’t do much by himself, but assured that -if he relies on the power of
the people- he will be able to face the huge economic interests in the
United States.

After ruling out great changes during the current US administration, he
highlighted that Obama had the intention of closing Guantánamo and Abu
Ghraib and he couldn’t, and wanted to withdraw the troops from Iraq and
didn’t manage to do that either.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. He's absolutely RIGHT about President Obama's absolute risk of losing ALL credibility

with Latin America if he doesn't move clearly against the military dictatorship.

This is a situation he can never recoup if he blows it.

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is totally on target here.

I need to look this guy up later tonight when I get some time. Would love to know more about who he is. He's absolutely correct.

[Peace Patriot]

2. Yup, that's what's at risk--Obama's credibility in Latin America.

I wonder if that isn't part of the motivation of those behind this coup--Rumsfeld moles in the Pentagon, Bush/Cheney moles in the State Dept., the CIA and other places, and other bad actors (with heinous histories) like Otto Reich and John Negroponte, and also John McCain (intimately involved in the Honduran coup; has telecommunications interests there, and has funneled $40+ million to the rightwing groups in Honduras through USAID/the "International Republican Institute"). (--Evo Gollinger's FOIA research.) Embarrass Obama. Put him in an extremely difficult, if not impossible, position. Destroy his stated policy of respectful, cooperative relations with Latin America. Prevent peace, and foster war, dissension and chaos.

I keep thinking of the giant Gulliver tied down by the tiny Lilliputians, in Jonathan Swift's tale. Obama tied hand and foot, while lesser people, with petty motives and viewpoints, running all over him like ants. It's more intricate than mere ropes, though. It's a tangled and sticky and very dangerous web they've spun around Obama. Can he extricate himself? I don't know.

[subsuelo]

3. and the icing on the cake would be...

that his position is now aligned with Chavez on the matter. So all the wingnuts on television can scream 'Socialist!' while Obama tries to push through health-care reform...

[rabs]

4. Have been thinking of what Joe Biden said during the campaign

BIDEN: "Mark my words...", OBAMA Will Be TESTED Like JFK, With A GENERATED CRISIS, Within 6 Months

ABC News' Matthew Jaffe Reports: Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.

"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."

http://pimpinturtle.com/2008/10/22/biden-mark-my-words-obama-will-be-tested-like-jfk-6-within-6-months.aspx?ref=rss

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Honduras came right on schedule. Six months.

Don't think BO/Hillary expected it to be in a backwater country like Honduras and not one of the frontburner issues: Israel/Palestine, Russia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, North Korea etc.

Could be the moles you speak of caught the administration by surprise? After all, Obama took the word of the Miami Cuban Mafia and of Alvarito Uribe? :shrug:

[Downwinder]

5. Look at the actors, how many have Bat of Pigs experience?