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July 14, 2009 By Fausta

Honduras: Zelaya gives an ultimatum

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Honduras’s deposed president Manuel Zelaya gives interim president Roberto Micheletti a week to quit, or there will be blood:

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya gave his rival, Roberto Micheletti, one week to step down, saying he was prepared to risk bloodshed to recapture the presidency, which he lost on June 28.

As I posted yesterday, the talks are scheduled to continue on Saturday, but Zelaya is adamant about returning to power:

Zelaya and Micheletti’s negotiating teams are expected to resume talks in Costa Rica on Saturday. But if those talks do not produce results, Zelaya said he would pay ”any cost” to reclaim the presidency.

”Let me come back — me with the people and you with your bayonets,” he said. “And instead of shooting innocent kids, shoot me.”

In case you harbor any doubt as to Zelaya’s wording, here he is, issuing the ultimatum, which he did call an ultimatum:


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Notice how he refers to himself at the end as the “constitutional government of the Honduran republic.”

I’ll be talking about this in today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern, and will update this post with developing news today.

Prior posts on Zelaya here.

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  1. Anthony (Los Angeles) says

    July 14, 2009 at 10:45 am

    Is it just me, or does he bear a physical as well as ideological resemblance to Ortega?

    This is just a disgrace. Instead of siding with a bunch of caudillos and Guevaras-in-their-own-mind, we should have a battalion of Marines there to make it clear we stand with the constitutional government of Honduras.

  2. Rómulo López Navarro says

    July 14, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    Sembradores de Ideas (50 años) 5ª Temporada: Tiempos de Revolución Rómulo López Navarro
    Honduras o Haití encenderán el pebetero de la América Irredenta.
    El Presidente Zelaya no tiene absolutamente nada que hacer en Costa Rica, debe regresar a Honduras de la manera que sea y en el menor tiempo posible a ponerse al frente del Pueblo que lo apoya para iniciar la Revolución en la América Irredenta
    El 30% de la América Irredenta vive en pobreza extrema. A ellos les toca hacer la revolución. Cada problema tiene en sí mismo la semilla de su propia solución; los que comen bien, visten bien, duermen bien solo utilizarán a los pobres para sus propios provecho.
    Todas las Constituciones hechas en la América Irredenta son iguales, hechas con la misma horma, Por corrientes políticas de base liberales, es como si un grupito de liberales, léase “vivos”, le dijeran al pueblo “déjenme pensar por ustedes”.
    Por ahora solo existen algunas pequeñas “candelitas” prendidas por todo el continente Americano, En Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua las mayores por estar más arraigadas a los pueblos, sin embargo son lideradas “todavía” por gente que come bien, vive bien, duerme que han desviado el proceso hacia una revolución “virtual” de mucha “verborrea” y esto aleja las posibilidades de hacer una verdadera revolución; una revolución real y profunda, si es verdad que queremos salvar al planeta, capaz de barrer hacia adentro de cada ser humano, para sacar tanta suciedad, tanta porqueriza, que llevamos por dentro, es decir es necesario volver a nacer; nacer en revolución.
    Borrar, todo el estamento legal de lo que se denomina “Estado de Derecho” y hacer nuevos postulados legales que incluyan los profundos sueños e ideales de los pueblos
    Y por último Buscar, a los mejores, si es posible debajo de las piedras para que dirijan lo que haya que dirigir, lo que sea estrictamente necesario dirigir, eliminando primero que nada, actitudes y formas de gobiernos monárquicos y presidencialistas con doctrinas prediseñadas sobre todo europeas y explorando formas colectivas de gobierno de amplia participación popular.
    Estoy seguro que el pueblo despertará de su largo letargo y no seguirá oyendo voces de sirenas. El pueblo despertará y luego vendrá la verdadera revolución; no me extrañaría que empezara por Honduras o por Haití por ser pueblos que históricamente han demostrado mayor coraje.
    Eso no lo va a parar absolutamente nadie. Las tres grandes pestes que deben eliminarse del Mundo por casualidad tiene el color verde: La Gripe Imperial, El Dólar Imperial y los “sapos verdes”, como les llamó Francisco Villa. Es un crimen poner ese nefasto uniforme verde “imperial” a niños para que estos asesinen a sus propios hermanos.
    Estoy seguro que si a estos niños uniformados, una luz divina les ilumine dejarán sus uniformes sobre las piedras y se unirán a sus iguales para hacer la revolución que debe salir de las entrañas del pueblo.
    Las guerras del pasado las iniciaron unos “viejos” que se conocían muy bien y ponían a pelear a algunos niños que no se conocían para sus propios beneficios pero eso va a Cambiar en Honduras o Haití donde se encenderá el pebetero de la América Irredenta. Los medios de información sesgados es lo único que tienen los que comen bien, viven bien y duermen bien, no les durará por mucho tiempo, recuerden esta frase que se hará realidad.
    “LOS PETALOS DE LA ROSA IMPERIAL SE VOLVERAN CLAVELES”.

  3. Fausta says

    July 14, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    ¿Y qué es esto de America Irredenta? ¿Irredenta de qué? Sandeces de propaganda pura.

  4. julio says

    July 14, 2009 at 9:44 pm

    Me pregunto, ¿que pueblo lo apoya?

  5. JL says

    July 14, 2009 at 10:06 pm

    Fausta,

    I’ve found a few reports on the internet that some governments are quietly moving to a more supportive stance toward the Micheletti government. I’ve read (depending on the report) primarily the names of Taiwan, Israel, and Panama. (On a few reports, I’ve also heard Colombia, Italy, and Egypt(?!).)

    Have you heard anything in this regard? Are they just rumors?

  6. Fausta says

    July 14, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    Until the news services or the governments involved make official statements, it’s safer to regard them as rumors,JL

  7. Bill says

    July 15, 2009 at 10:29 am

    “I’ve found a few reports on the internet that some governments are quietly moving to a more supportive stance toward the Micheletti government.”

    I think they don’t have much choice… The constitutionalists hold the country and “possession is 9/10ths of the law.” Even if the constitutionalists were in the wrong (aside from shipping him out of the country they are in the right), the world, which has grudgingly recognized illegal bona fide coups in the past beyond count, would have to recognize this one.

    Since they stupidly put all their eggs in Zelaya’s basket as the “champion of democracy” they can’t now just come out and “call backsies” since after that bungle Leonard Nimoy wouldn’t even take up the case of going “In Search of…” all that lost face.

    All the constitutionalists of the world can hope for now is the slow drip drip drip of recognition of Honduras’s legal right to protect their constitutional government and for this episode to never be mentioned again by the duped heads of state of the world.

  8. Eduardo says

    July 15, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    Maybe the US should remember that Venezuela has oil. Maybe they should find some excuse to invade Venezuela and keep Chavez busy so that he won’t have time to meddle with our (Honduran) affairs.

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