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March 27, 2011 By Fausta

Honduras drops arrest warrants for Mel Zelaya

Well, the US has been canvassing for his return and Pepe Lobo says he wants “a legal solution allowing for his return”, so now the arrest warrants are dropped,
Honduras drops arrest warrants for ousted Manuel Zelaya

The move allows Mr Zelaya to return without detention to Honduras, where he was ousted in a coup in June 2009.

Judge Oscar Chincilla said Mr Zelaya still faced corruption charges over his plan while president to hold a vote on changing the constitution.

Mr Zelaya has said the charges are politically motivated and he wanted them dropped.

He now lives in the Dominican Republic.

President Porfirio Lobo has said he would like to see a legal solution that would allow Mr Zelaya’s return.

Mel is not happy with the decision and says it’s “absurd” that the judge let corruption charges stand.

Can’t wait for Jimmy Carter to drop by one of these days and work his magic.

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March 14, 2011 By Fausta

The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

LatinAmerThe entire hemisphere is listening to the news on Japan. The LatinAmericanist has a roundup of LatAm ”desaparecidos” in post-earthquake Japan

LATIN AMERICA
Buoyed by Recovery, Migrants Send Home More Money

Tsunami waves graze Latin America’s Pacific coast

ARGENTINA
Peronists seek to stifle Vargas Llosa

Why is a segment, perhaps the majority, of the Argentine electorate insensitive to these violations of the law and moral standards? In my view, for three reasons:
• Because, 60 years ago, Peronism introduced a practice of patronage politics in which the militants give their support in exchange for some privilege or gift given by the politicians. They vote with their stomachs, not with their hearts or heads.
• Because a cynical attitude prevails towards the democratic system, built on the false premise that “all politicians are equally corrupt.” (That’s not true; in Argentina there are honest politicians and officials.)
• Because many Argentines, after several generations of continuous apathy, are willing to flout the law if they obtain some benefit from it. That makes a mockery of the republican ideal of a society of thoughtful citizens, voluntarily placed under the authority of the law. That responsible attitude simply does not prevail in a country where it’s common to boast about breaking the rules.
It’s no wonder that this lamentable civic climate nurtures an atmosphere conducive to the use of fascist tactics inimical to republican virtues, a habit of using some degree of violence against those who report violations of law, or simply express opinions contrary to the official current.

Bones and human rights
Identifying skeletal remains

BRAZIL
Brazil’s labour laws
Employer, beware
An archaic labour code penalises businesses and workers alike

CHILE
Chile-Japan nexus

COLOMBIA
22 Oil Workers Are Freed

Marxist guerrillas have freed 22 of the 23 oil workers for Canadian energy company Talisman Energy Inc. who were kidnapped late Monday, Defense Minister Rodrigo Rivera said Tuesday.

Mr. Rivera said one of the 23 was released or escaped Monday night, while the 21 others were freed early Tuesday because of heavy pursuit by Colombia’s armed forces.

Managing cities
Bogotá’s rise and fall
Can Enrique Peñalosa restore a tarnished municipal model?

Tehran says is keen to cement ties with Colombia

CUBA
Biscet freed, sent home

Gaddafi and Castro, Solidarity Between Despots

A little less Che & a little more Tea for Cuba?

Continue reading on Examiner.com: A little less Che & a little more Tea for Cuba? – Portland TEA Party | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/tea-party-in-portland-me/a-little-less-che-a-little-more-tea-for-cuba#ixzz1GaMNN1c3

ECUADOR
Tsunami waves hit the Galapagos,

HAITI
Homecoming for Haitians
After the new president is elected, the prospects for reform may hinge on returning emigres
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HONDURAS
Narcolaboratorio podría ser de cartel de Sinaloa
Ministro de Seguridad reveló que ya se tienen pistas de involucrados hondureños. Expertos colombianos determinarán cuánta droga se producía

Honduras and its former president
Why a pariah may return
Many now have reason to want Manuel Zelaya to come home

MEXICO
Dallas News report: Path of Destruction, via Silvio Canto.

Suicidal: Obama Sends 20 More ICE Agents to Mexico… Unarmed, article also at the Washington Examiner, Obama sending more unarmed agents into Mexico

Current Mexican law bans foreign law enforcement agents from carrying weapons, even when working on an investigation–a policy over which President Obama recently expressed his approval.

American Professor Kidnapped in Mexico

ATF Let Guns “Walk” Into Hands Of Mexican Drug-Gangs?

ATF Lied, Mexicans Died, via Doug Ross.

Should Mexico Go the ‘British Way’?

México tuvo menos homicidios que varios países, incluyendo a Venezuela

los países que están por arriba de México son Brasil (con 25,3 homicidios por cada cien mil habitantes), Jamaica (32,4), Belice (32,7), Colombia (37,3), Venezuela (48,0), Sudáfrica (49,6) y El Salvador (61,0).

PBS Documentary, U.S. mayor, police chief charged with smuggling guns to Mexico

Wanted: Officers to Retake Mexico

The Storm that Swept Mexico, airing on May 15,

TRAILER – The Storm That Swept Mexico from Paradigm Productions on Vimeo.

PERU
Peru elections shaken by reports of drug money

PUERTO RICO
Third U.S. Tsunami Center May Be Headed to Puerto Rico

Walking a tightrope 60 feet above the ground, El acróbata Rick Wallenda imita en Puerto Rico la hazaña en la que murió su abuelo

VENEZUELA
BFFs

Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez loses Libya stadium honour
A stadium in eastern Libya named in honour of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been stripped of its title, opposition groups say.

OAS monitor concerned with gov’t attacks on press in Venezuela

The week’s posts and podcasts,
After the Gross sentence: More concessions from Obama?
Cuba: Alan Gross sentenced to 15 yrs in prison
Congress must pass the FTAs with Colombia and Panama
Why the Obama administration’s silence on Chavez and Castro? UPDATED with VIDEO

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Filed Under: Argentina, Brazil, Caribbean, Carnival of Latin America, Chile, Colombia, Communism, Cuba, FARC, Haiti, Honduras, Hugo Chavez, Japan, Latin America, Libya, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela Tagged With: Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, Fausta's blog, Galapagos, Mel Zelaya, Rick Wallenda, The Storm that Swept Mexico, Veronica Perez Rodriguez

December 20, 2010 By Fausta

The rule-by-decree Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

LatinAmerWelcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. The week’s big news: Venezuela’s Chavista-controlled lame-duck National Assembly granted Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree for the next eighteen months, essentially voiding the results of last September’s Congressional election.

ARGENTINA
Noche de Librerías en Buenos Aires atrae a 40 mil
La ciudad argentina se llenó de actividades gratuitas en las que participaron músicos y escritores

New Squatter Violence in Argentina Prompts Call for Evictions

BOLIVIA
Bolivia recognizes Palestine as independent state

Bolivia: ¿Militarización de Tarija? – EJU.TV

CHILE
Pinochet officials sentenced to jail in France
A French court has handed prison sentences of between 15 years and life to officials who served under Gen Augusto Pinochet in Chile.

COLOMBIA
GOP House Will Link Colombia and South Korea Trade Deals

Obama Lets Colombia Hang
The White House says it won’t submit the free trade pact to Congress.

CUBA
Diplomatic Cable leak: Cuba banned Moore’s “Sicko”

Moore: Hey, Cuba loved my movie!

Cardinal Ortega has his ‘promises,’ Cuba political prisoners have their sufferings

Ethics Slepping

What to Buy?

Wikipedia a la Cubana

ECUADOR
Chevron Forces Legal Change
Recent Moves in Ecuador Oil-Pollution Suit Have Plaintiffs Revamping Approach

HONDURAS
WikiLeaks, Honduras and the U.S.
Released cables make it clear that the U.S. knew Manuel Zelaya was a threat to democracy in Honduras.

Guest blog: Wikileaks and the Honduran Crisis
Second life for abandoned computer parts

JAMAICA
Jamaicans using patois version of Bible’s Luke

MEXICO
Thieves provoke pipeline explosion, killing 27

Mexico: Activist Mother of Brutally Murdered Teen Gunned Down

Mexico: mass jail-break near US border

PANAMA
A Leak Forms In the Panama Canal

Panama’s Ambassador to US Quits Due To Wikileaks Revelations About Panama Canal Expansion Bid

Another mega project for Panama

PARAGUAY
Paraguayan Senators would not allow Venezuela to join Mercosur since the country not a full democracy, Paraguay: Senadores explican que Venezuela no ingresará al Mercosur porque no es una democracia plena , following the Venezuelan National Assembly move granting Chavez the power to rule by decree for 18 months.

PERU
Army chief rejects Wikileaks drug claims

President García says “I’m not offended” by WikiLeaks personality profile

PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico lures visitors with natural, manmade attractions

VENEZUELA
Chavez defends plan for Internet regulations

Venezuela’s armed forces in the middle of coups and voting
When saying that a potential victory of the opposition would not be accepted by Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), General Henry Rangel Silva put the army in a dilemma of using force to keep Chávez in office

Aqui no pasa nada

For events developing in Sur del Lago, where the military may intervene, follow Milagros Socorro’s tweets.

A democratic test for Venezuela

As Chávez Gets Decree Powers, NYT Admires ‘Political Sagacity,’ Press Avoids Dictatorial Details

Venezuelan President Chavez’ Teflon popularity fraying at the edges

Towards a Worker’s Paradise

Weeding

La verdadera conspiración (actualizada)

The Chavez dictatorship

A Resident of the El Peonio farm tells Hugo Chavez what a farce his revolution is

The week’s posts and podcast,
Chavez to rule by decree UPDATED
Sicko banned in Cuba for portraying Cuban medical apartheid
Chavez, not allowing a disaster to go to waste, seeks dictatorship
Chavez’s steaming bucket of urea

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Filed Under: Argentina, Bolivia, Carnival of Latin America, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Honduras, Hugo Chavez, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Manuel Zelaya, Mel Zelaya, Wiki

December 13, 2010 By Fausta

The second Monday in December Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

LatinAmer
LATIN AMERICA
Unilateral escapism
A collective state of misjudgment has swept across Latin America.

Why Latin America turned

Iran’s Dirty Game in the Western Hemisphere is a Symptom

ARGENTINA
Squirrel Alert in Buenos Aires!

CHILE
Chile Prison Fire Kills 83

Chile’s prison tragedy

COLOMBIA

WikiLeaks: Colombia’s Uribe reached out to FARC

Colombia’s foreign policy
Seeking new friends
Juan Manuel Santos tries diplomacy

CUBA
Via Melanie Phillips and ShrinkWrapped, United Nations: It’s Okay to Kill the Gay (emphasis added)

The tiny West African nation of Benin (on behalf of the UN’s African Group) proposed an amendment to strike sexual minorities from the resolution. The amendment was adopted with 79 votes in favor, 70 against, 17 abstentions and 26 absent.

A collection of notorious human rights violators voted for the amendment including Afghanistan, Algeria, China, Congo, Cuba, Eritrea, North Korea, Iran (didn’t Ahmadinejad tell the world there were no gays in Iran?), Egypt, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Sudan, Uganda, Vietnam, Yemen, and Zimbabwe.

Add to this Bahamas, Belize (where you get 10 years for being gay), Jamaica (10 years of hard labor), Grenada (10 years), Guyana (life sentence), Saint Kitts and Nevis (10 years), Saint Lucia (10 years), Saint Vincent (10 years), South Africa (Apartheid? What apartheid?), and Morocco (ruled by a gay monarch!). They are all on the list of nations that do not think execution of gays and lesbians is worthy of condemnation or investigation.

Just Back: On a Cuban guilt trip

Vatican worries about ‘bloodshed’ in Cuba
Cites political tensions and ‘disastrous’ economy

Wikileaks and empty archives

WIkiLeaks Bombshell: Cuba To Be Bankrupt in 2-3 Years

Osmany and the ‘other scars’

ECUADOR
Ecuador to auction oil fields of companies it forced out

EL SALVADOR
Finally, Wikileaks says something interesting about Venezuela: how it intervenes in Salvadoran affairs

HAITI
Haiti’s election
Whomever they voted for…
…the government plans to win

Haiti’s Preval Tries to Steal an Election
In the aftermath of presidential election fraud, violent protests erupt in Port-au-Prince. Where is Hillary Clinton?

Palin: Haiti needs ‘military airlift’ of supplies. Meanwhile, the HuffPo is throwing a snit because Bristol Palin dared touch her mother’s hair.

HONDURAS
THE must-read: Wikileaks: The real Manuel Zelaya

“Llueven” denuncias contra los especuladores

MEXICO
Altered Corn Slowly Takes Root in Mexico

Mexican Suspect Got School Salary

Servando “La Tuta” Gómez, a reputed leader and spokesman for the La Familia drug cartel, held a tenured position at an elementary school in the central state of Michoacán and has received paychecks for 15 years.

In Mexico, a legal breakdown invites brutal justice

Another Capo Killed?

Cancun ends with modest climate deal


All deals are off

Cancun carbon footprint by the numbers

Alejo Garza Tamez and the restoration of Mexico’s sacred narrative

PANAMA

Nationwide Emergency Number for Panama: 088

PERU
Constitutional Court prohibits Peruvian media from using secretly recorded phone calls

Peru-China ties better than ever, says Chinese Ambassador

PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico Slaps Tax on Products by Companies Headquartered Elsewhere

VENEZUELA
Venezuela Threatens Takeover of Large Banks

President Hugo Chávez threatened to take control over the local unit of Spanish bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA and other large financial institutions if they don’t ensure that homes and apartments they finance are occupied immediately.

Mr. Chávez, who has brought his own brand of socialism to Venezuela, has nationalized more than 200 companies this year from various sectors of the economy.

Wikileaks:
Chavez is a brute and a clown, Evo an ignoramus and Ortega a ding bat dixit the Spanish foreign service
Hugo Chávez’s ex-wife gives Washington insights into strongman’s psyche: WikiLeaks

More on Venezuela and Iranian missiles

Venezuela gets 1800 shoulder fired anti air craft missiles from Russia

Superfluous Authoritarianism

¿ES QUE 12 AÑOS DE PACIENCIA NO BASTAN?

Recent posts and podcasts:
Venezuela acquired 1,800 antiaircraft missiles from Russia last year
Today is National Tango Day in Argentina
Cold in Cancun
Bonding, Iranian style
Criminal capitalism: 15 Minutes on Latin America
At Real Clear World,
Iranian missiles in Venezuela?

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Filed Under: Argentina, Carnival of Latin America, Chile, Colombia, Communism, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Latin America, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia, UN, Venezuela Tagged With: Cancun, Climate Change, Fausta's blog, Manuel Zelaya, Mel Zelaya

June 28, 2010 By Fausta

The year without Mel Zelaya Carnival of Latin America, and VIDEO

LatinAmer Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean. As the title indicates, it’s been a year since Mel Zelaya was thrown out of office. He and his teddy bear are also gone from his tin foil-lined room at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.

Today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern:
The UN Office for Drugs and Crime’s report

ARGENTINA
Collateral damage

Cristina se reunió con empresarios antes del comienzo de la cumbre del G20

Seventy-five years ago today

BARBADOS
Barbados and Panama sign double taxation agreement

BOLIVIA
Bolivian Bottles Build Houses

BRAZIL
Brazil’s foreign policy
An Iranian banana skin
Lula has little to show for his Tehran adventure

Lula’s adventure in Tehran smacks of the overconfidence of a politician who basks in an approval rating of over 70% and who sees the Iraq war and the financial crisis as having irreparably damaged American power and credibility. But the United States is still Brazil’s second-largest trading partner. Although some American and Brazilian officials are keen to prevent ill-will over Iran from spoiling co-operation in other areas, it nevertheless may do so. The United States Congress may be even less willing to support the elimination of a tariff on Brazil’s sugar-based ethanol, for example.

Lula wants the UN reformed to reflect today’s world, with Brazil gaining a permanent seat on the Security Council. But by choosing to apply his views on how the world should be run to an issue of pressing concern to America and Europe, and in which Brazil has no obvious national interest, Lula may only have lessened the chances that he will get his way.

Lula skips G20 summit due to deadly Brazil floods

CHILE
Piñera’s (dis)approval

Entrevista a Josep Montaner, “El rol de la sociedad civil ha de ser activo en cualquier situación” Video in Spanish,

Josep Montaner _ Rol de la sociedad civil from Plataforma Urbana on Vimeo.

COLOMBIA
THOMSON: Santos sweeps to the presidency
Platform for security, stability and development win b

Good news from Colombia, but does Obama appreciate it?

Ros-Lehtinen: Recognizing Colombia’s presidential election and the U.S.-Colombia alliance Ros-Lehtinen Resolution on Colombia Elections Passes House

Will Washington treat Colombia’s Santos as an ally?

COSTA RICA
Father’s Day in Costa Rica

CUBA
When Learning Turns to Dust

“Cuba experts”

Ramiro on a hunger strike?

Syrian president due in Havana on Sunday

Interviews With Dr. Darsi Ferrer and Juan Juan Almeida

ECUADOR
UPDATE: Filmmakers Argue Against Ruling In Chevron Case

HONDURAS
A year without Mel Zelaya

More intromission by US Ambassador Llorens and G-16

JAMAICA
Mr Coke turns himself in

Jamaican drug lord captured

MEXICO
Mexican Violence Crosses Borders; Attracts Media Attention

Mexico Represents Single Biggest Drug Trafficking Threat to U.S.

NICARAGUA
Nicaragua’s Sandinistas accused of paying for power
Daniel Ortega’s ruling Sandinistas Front is using strong-arm tactics to limit opposition, observers say.

PANAMA
Washington Post on retiring to Panama

PARAGUAY
Journalists in the crosshairs of Paraguayan People’s Army

PERU
Peruvian Franken-Corn Defamation Case Update

Keiko Fujimori Leads Peru Presidential Poll, El Comercio Says

Keiko Fujimori says “I will be in the second round” for president of Peru in 2011

Peru judge rules Van der Sloot confession valid

PUERTO RICO

Students approve strike pact. Back in the olden days when I was a student at the UPR they were striking, too, but no one slept in cute little tents on campus. Either way, the strikes are a total waste of time.

VENEZUELA
Today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern: UN: Most of the cocaine going to Europe passes through Venezuela

The report launched by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) expresses concern about Venezuela due to the existence of cells of armed insurgent groups, such as the Bolivarian Liberation Front and civilian militias supported by the government.

WDR 2010 website. PDF file: full report.

Syrian president meets with Chavez in Caracas

Revolutionary Rot, But News It’s Not: AP Ignores Venezuela’s ‘Battle for Food‘, also at BizzyBlog

Como el paternalismo crea dictadores


A radical shift to the radical left in Venezuela

Ollie Loves Hugo & Hugo Loves Ollie

Le Monde criticizes the selling out of Venezuela to Cuba, Chavez gets revenge by taking away a minor farm of Diego Arria and Letter from Diego Arria to Hugo Chavez

VenEconomy: Venezuela Dominated By & Split Up Into Ghettos

Commie Despot Renegs On Debts, Seizes Oil Rigs

Today’s Video: Oligarchs vs. Bolivarians

Maria Conchita Alonso on Oliver Stone’s South of the Border (VIDEO)

HUMOR
My cousin sent this, Por que Cuba No fue a el Mundial Los Pichy Boys

The week’s posts and podcasts:
How about, Sayonara, Citgo?
Venezuela to nationalize U.S. firm’s oil rigs
Venezuela’s fast-track doctors
Jamaica: Dudus Coke in the can
Mexican gangs’ lookouts in Arizona
Rum war?
Obama Secretary of Labor: Illegals Have a Right to Fair Wages VIDEO
In Silvio Canto’s podcast.
In Rick Moran’s podcast.

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March 29, 2010 By Fausta

Obama and Honduras: still tryin’ to bring Zelaya back

Oh, yes, Zelaya, who took shelter in a tin foil-lined room at the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.

Nicholas sent this link to Neoneocon’s post, Remember Honduras? Obama does, and he hasn’t given up trying to destabilize the country, which links to Mary O’Grady’s article in today’s Wall Street Journal (emphasis added),
The U.S. vs. Honduran Democracy
The administration is pushing a policy that divides Honduras and bolsters a chavista.

Last year, the U.S. tried to force the reinstatement of deposed president Manuel Zelaya. When that failed and Team Obama was looking like the Keystone Cops, it sent a delegation to Tegucigalpa to negotiate a compromise.

Participants in those talks say Dan Restrepo, senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council, let slip that the U.S. interest had to do with American politics. The Republicans, he said, were using the administration’s support for Mr. Zelaya, an ally of Venezuelan Hugo Chávez, against the Democrats. It’s not going to work, Mr. Restrepo is said to have informed the other negotiators, because “we have the power” and would be keeping it for a long time.

It can’t have been comforting for Hondurans to learn that while their country was living a monumental crisis, fueled by U.S. policy, Mr. Restrepo’s concern was his party’s power. For the record, an NSC spokesman says “Mr. Restrepo didn’t say that.” But my sources are more plausible considering what has transpired since.

Four months after a presidential election, reports from Honduras suggest the Obama administration remains obsessed with repairing its foreign-policy image by regaining the upper hand. The display of raw colonialist hubris is so pronounced that locals now refer to U.S. ambassador Hugo Llorens as “the proconsul.”

Washington’s bullying is two-pronged. First is a maniacal determination to punish those involved in removing Mr. Zelaya. Second is an attempt to force Honduras to allow Mr. Zelaya, who now lives in the Dominican Republic, to return without facing any repercussions for the illegal actions that provoked his removal. Both goals are damaging the bilateral relationship, polarizing the nation and raising the risk of a resurgence of political violence.

The U.S., as represented by Mr. Llorens, has been at the center of the Zelaya crisis all along. People familiar with events leading up to Mr. Zelaya’s arrest on June 28 say that had the U.S. ambassador not worked behind the scenes to block a congressional vote to remove the president a few days earlier, the dramatic deportation would never have happened.

The State Department denies this allegation. But numerous sources maintain that Mr. Llorens’ interference allowed Mr. Zelaya to push ahead with an unconstitutional referendum.

And it’s not over:

Now more trouble is brewing: Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes, according to press reports, has said that Mr. Lobo made a promise, in front of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mr. Funes, that Mr. Zelaya could return “without fear of political persecution.” Mr. Lobo subsequently announced that Mr. Zelaya is free to enter the country. In exchange, it is expected that foreign aid flows to Honduras will resume. But the minister of security maintains that if Mr. Zelaya returns he will be arrested.

“Smart diplomacy”, tin foil-lined room version:

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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Honduras, Latin America Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Hugo Llorens, Manuel Zelaya, Mel Zelaya, smart diplomacy

January 29, 2010 By Fausta

Zelaya leaves Honduras: 15 Minutes on Latin America

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Following Pepe Lobo’s inauguration, Mel Zelaya left the country, but promises to return.

I’ll talk about this in today’s podcast at 11AM Eastern, and you can also read my post at Real Clear World.

Related reading:
La Gringa’s Outside interference and Honduran reaction.

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Filed Under: Honduras Tagged With: Fausta's blog, Manuel Zelaya, Mel Zelaya, Pepe Lobo, Real Clear World, Real Clear World Blog, Roberto Micheletti

January 21, 2010 By Fausta

Zeyala to go, Nancy rejects the Bill, and other roundup items with VIDEO

Zelaya will be leaving the tin foil-lined room soon: Zelaya to leave Honduras next week says adviser

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will end his four-month refuge in the Brazilian embassy and leave the country next week, when his term would have ended, his closest adviser said on Thursday.

Zelaya, a leftist who was ousted in a coup on June 28, accepted an agreement backed by the government of the Dominican Republic to travel to the Caribbean country, close Zelaya aide Rasel Tome told Radio Globo radio.

Introducing Son of No Sheeples: Mako Snark

Pelosi Rejects Senate Health Care Bill, meanwhile Obama Now Signals He Could Accept Limited Health Bill

What a guy: Specter tells Bachmann to “act like a lady”

Frank Gaffney writes about the Obama administration’s Dangerous Accommodations. While many credit the healthcare debate for Scott Brown’s victory, Andrew McCarthy points out It’s the Enemy, Stupid
National-security strength lifts Scott Brown.

Scott Brown went out and made the case for enhanced interrogation, for denying terrorists the rights of criminal defendants, for detaining them without trial, and for trying them by military commission. It worked. It will work for other candidates willing to get out of their Beltway bubbles.

Victor Davis Hanson on Our Philosopher-King Obama
He doesn’t mind pushing noble legislation that most people oppose.
Why is that?

Why, then, does the Obama administration persist with such an apparently unpopular agenda?

Like Plato’s all-knowing elite, Obama seems to feel that those he deems less informed will “suddenly” learn to appreciate his benevolent guidance once these laws are pushed through.
…
There is one other trait of this administration similar to those of utopian philosopher-kings. Our elite must have the leeway to be exempt from their own rules.

Michael Fumento asks, Why does everybody think BPA is safe but us?

Off-Air America

John Edwards finally got around to publicly admitting he’s the father

In a written statement provided exclusively to NBC News, the former North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential candidate says he’s taking responsibility for the child, Frances Quinn Hunter

Meanwhile he shamelessly promoted his wife’s book which aimed to rehabilitate him. Saint Elizabeth and the Ego Monster, indeed.

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The National Enquirer is submitting its John Edwards coverage for a Pulitzer Prize. Can’t wait for Oprah to reunite John with all his children!

BONUS
Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said By Pat Robertson; here’s the one about spooky yoga:

Or maybe he means Yoda?

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