Gettin' wierder! "Panama advocates for Zelaya to return home"

[Judi Lynn]

Panamá, lunes 28 de septiembre de 2009
Panama advocates for Zelaya to return home


The government of Panama submitted a formal request to the Honduran government – currently under the administration of interim president Roberto Michelleti – to allow the transfer of ousted president Manuel Zelaya to his home in Tegucigalpa. This, according to a press release issued yesterday by Vice-President and Foreign Minister, Juan Carlos Varela.

Varela said that Panama made the request for "humanitarian reasons", arguing that if Zelaya could take refuge in the offices of the Brazilian Embassy in Honduras, he might as well be allowed to go home.

President Zelaya was removed from office on June 28, 2009 by the Honduran army on Supreme Court order, after his mandate to hold a public opinion poll - intended to assess the population's desire for a National Constituent Assembly - led to a political crisis. Zelaya was then expatriated to Costa Rica, while Congress named Micheletti as interim president to replace him. To date, however, no country has recognized the change in office.

Varela's press release further highlighted his support to the mediation process currently being led by the Catholic Church through Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Tegucigalpa, Juan José Pineda.

More:
http://mensual.prensa.com/mensual/contenido/2009/09/28/hoy/english/news_1063.asp

You know what Goriletti's response will be:

Zelaya has to leave the embassy. Simple! Jesus.

[Downwinder]

1. Makes sense. How can people go to mass with a curfew.

I forgot, mass has to be especially authorized by the authorities. Will sermons have to be preapproved?

[EFerrari]

2. Does Zelaya want to go home? I wonder if home can feel like home again

after such a trauma occurs there. My mom still remembers the sound of the boot steps of the unit that came to "arrest" her father in the middle of the night and she's 77.

[Downwinder]

3. Have you collected her memories and written them up?

Do! I didn't for my mom and now I can't remember all of the details. My father wrote an autobiography so his are still there. I've forgotten a lot of the stories my Grandparents told.

[EFerrari]

4. It's interesting because Mom's memories are few and far between

but that one stands out for her.

My grandmother, on the other hand, spent hours telling me stories and her memory was very sharp, very detailed. And she never really ran down that particular night although she told me other stories just as frightening. But she never described what it was like to have her home invaded and her husband dragged off -- maybe because she was still too vulnerable to that experience even in memory.

[Braulio]

5. Helpful Panama

Maybe Panama was informed the Israeli mercenaries are already set up to take a shot at Zelaya if he goes home. If I were Zelaya I would change that fuddy duddy hat of his for a kevlar lined helmet.