Ready for a great joke? "Honduras lifts checkpoints to restart cross-border trade with Nicaragua"

[Judi Lynn]

Pinochettis think they'll just get this trade problem all fixed by lifting their checkpoints. They apparently aren't aware the OTHER countries are the ones who don't want to trade with THEM, and said so weeks ago.

Honduras lifts checkpoints to restart cross-border trade with Nicaragua
2009-07-30 09:45:27

TEGUCIGALPA, July 29 (Xinhua) -- The Honduran interim government on Wednesday completely withdrew the military checkpoints from the highway linking the country with NTheseicaragua in order to restart cross-border trade.

Although the highway was clear, there was still police and military presence in the border area.

Police spokesman Orlin Cerrato told Xinhua that "the police presence is kept due to the situation."

The interim government last Friday set up more than 20 military and police checkpoints along the highway that links national capital Tegucigalpa to the border with Nicaragua in Las Manos, where ousted President Manuel Zelaya tried to enter Honduras.

The interim government also imposed a curfew from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. local time (0000 GMT to 1200 GMT), which is still valid in the area.

Businessmen from Tegucigalpa said the country's political crisis have caused losses worth some 100 million U.S. dollars.

The economic effects of the Honduras political crisis are turning evident as the country's international trade is not working well after Zelaya was forced into exile after a coup on June 28.

Zelaya currently is organizing peaceful resistance on the Nicaraguan border in order to retake his presidency.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/30/content_11796591.htm

[rabs]

1. Another chuckle of the day

Goriletti today asked Arias to send a delegation to Tegu. to participate in "an internal dialogue of conciliation."

Goriletti said the dialogue would include all sectors of civil society, churches, syndicates, student grous, business groups, the media, universities.

(In what would is this simian living?)

Article is from the newspaper La Prensa of Managua.

TEGUCIGALPA/AFP

El presidente de facto de Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, pidió hoy al mediador en la crisis política, el mandatario de Costa Rica Oscar Arias, que envíe a Tegucigalpa una comisión para emprender un diálogo interno de conciliación.

"Este diálogo, esta comunicación efectiva, debe incluir a todas las partes de la sociedad civil: iglesias, gremios, grupos estudiantiles, asociaciones de empresarios, medios de comunicación, sindicatos, universidades", anotó un comunicado dado por la Casa de Gobierno a la prensa.

http://www.laprensa.com.ni/archivo/2009/julio/29/noticias/ultimahora/341095.shtml

[flamingdem]

2. They better not send anyone, not even the messenger nt

[Judi Lynn]

3. Would you describe him as profoundly stupid, or simply insane?

Apparently he thinks he can just tell Arias, the "boy," to get busy and get on down there and talk to a bunch of people the coup plotters want him to see, then he can send out the word to forget about Zelaya, and everything will be o.k.

You bet.

Good idea, Goriletti. http://www.jesus21.com.nyud.net:8090/poppydixon/bush/img/bush.jpg