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Stirring up chaos inside Honduras: 15 Minutes on Latin America

In today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern, op-eds on Zelaya’s return to Honduras:
Micheletti Willing to Meet With Zelaya to End Honduras Crisis, to which Zelaya replied by acussing Micheletti of manipulation. The UN had delivered food and water to the Brazilian embassy yesterday evening.

Babalu has a translation of Micheletti’s speech:

Stirring Up Chaos Inside Honduras
Sara Miller Llana of the Christian Science Monitor is asking, Honduras crisis: Did Zelaya snub Hugo Chávez for Brazil?
Ousted President Manuel Zelaya chose to hole up in Brazil’s embassy out of concern that his ties to Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez would diminish his support in Honduras.
The Honduras Mess
Wonderful: Obama grants visa to Burmese junta member — but not to Honduran leaders
Giving Honduras the cold shoulder

The latest rumor:

According to the television news program, Hoy Mismo, in Honduras, the United States spokesperson, Ian Kelly has stated the United States will usher Manual Zelaya from the Brazilian embassy to their own embassy in Honduras, and from there transport him to the United States.

As far as I could find, Kelly has not made that assertion yet.

And, while at the UN

The UN loves Barack Obama because he is weak
It is not hard to see why a standing ovation awaits Barack Obama when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly today, writes Nile Gardiner.

It is natural that much of the UN will embrace an American president who declines to offer strong American leadership. A president who engages dictators like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez will naturally gain respect from the leaders of the more than 100 members of the United Nations who are currently designated as “partly free” or “not free” by respected watchdog Freedom House.

The UN is not a club of democracies – who still remain a minority within its membership – it is a vast melting pot of free societies, socialist regimes and outright tyrannies. Obama’s clear lack of interest in human rights issues is a big seller at the UN, where at least half its members have poor human rights records.

The president scores highly at the UN for refusing to project American values and military might on the world stage, with rare exceptions like the war against the Taliban. His appeasement of Iran, his bullying of Israel, his surrender to Moscow, his call for a nuclear free world, his siding with Marxists in Honduras, his talk of a climate change deal, have all won him plaudits in the large number of UN member states where US foreign policy has traditionally been viewed with contempt.

Simply put, Barack Obama is loved at the UN because he largely fails to advance real American leadership. This is a dangerous strategy of decline that will weaken US power and make her far more vulnerable to attack.

When Foreign Policy Becomes Foreign Ineptitude

Thanks to Dick & Maggie for the links.

Link to Telegraph article corrected

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4 Responses to “Stirring up chaos inside Honduras: 15 Minutes on Latin America”

  1. TeresaV Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 10:43 am

    I’ve only been following this off and on. Is there a list of things just citizens can do to support Honduras? Vacationing there is not an option for me at this time but I would buy Honduran coffee, stuff like that.

  2. ricardo jaime Says:
    September 23rd, 2009 at 12:11 pm

    I used to be a foreign aid worker in Honduras — there’s lots of little things one can do to support the country’s economy and people.
    But this is a “big picture” problem caused by powerful governments such as the U.S. and institutions such as the U.N. I would suggest that Americans put pressure on Obama and Hillary that will affect their polices at home — for example, tieing public approval of anything the Obama administration wants to do (e.g. health reform, economic policies, etc.) to changing their foreign policy re: Honduras, Israel, Iran, Chavez, etc. “Stop siding with the bad guys, or you are going to be a lame duck government before you even complete a year in office” would be a more effective approach.
    Let them rant and rave about “racism” all they want. Just make sure to point out the fact that powerful wealthy Venezuela supports the FARC narco-terrorists, who are responsible for much of the cocaine which ends up enslaving poor Black youth in the U.S. Millionaires Obama and Hillary are not only out of touch with the poor in Latin America, but with their own citizens.

    Ricardo

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