Brazil asks Zelaya to reduce number of followers at embassy

[struggle4progress]

BRASILIA, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said Tuesday that he had requested ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to reduce the number of his followers at the Brazilian embassy in Honduras.

According to Amorim, after returning to Honduras on Sept. 21, Zelaya had been staying in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa with a retinue of some 60 people.

"We are going to continue urging Zelaya to reduce the number of his followers," Amorim said during a meeting with the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Brazilian Senate.

Amorim said he had talked with Zelaya over the phone upon his return to Tegucigalpa, and that Zelaya had promised to return to power by peaceful means and through dialogue ...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/30/content_12133780.htm

[Peace Patriot]

1. Lula da Silva has some foaming-at-the-mouth wingnuts to deal with, in the Brazilian Senate.

I think that's what this is about. You know, the kind we have here, who would ask sneering questions of Martin Luther King ("Are you going to demand voting rights by peaceful means, Mr. King, or are you going to force us to turn fire hoses on you and beat you to a bloody pulp?")

So, um, Lulu's Foreign Minister answers some fascist fuckwad's question ("Why are Brazilian taxpayers paying the bill for all these people in our embassy?"), with, "Ah, yes, Well, we have asked Zelaya to throw some of these people out on the street to be beaten, arrested, tortured and killed. Does that satisfy you, sir?"

Ha-ha.

[Braulio]

2. Send them to Brazil or Nicaragua?

If indeed they face arrest etc, the Brazilians could bring them out to Brazil, or send them to Nicaragua, where the President seems to be quite a Zelaya loving guy. I've visited quite a few embassies around the world, and other than the embassies for very large countries, they're usually too small to fit in 60 people without difficulty. If indeed they got 60 Hondurans in there, Zelaya abused his hosts' good will, and the Brazilians are starting to sound a tad dumb. Don't forget, an embassy is mostly an office building, and the staff doesn't live within the grounds. This means it lacks beds, bathroom, kitchen facilities, etc.