This is a developing story, from CNN (via @MarkImpomeni on Twitter).
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, has closed because of the “fluid” situation there, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday.
I will have more on this later. Suffice it to say, for now, that the “fluid” situation, which today means near riots in the streets that the government is having to handle with tear gas and water cannons, the State Department notes is a situation that the State Department and the Obama administration caused. Without our attempts to force Honduras to reject its own laws and Constitution, there would be no aborning crisis right now.
Let me repeat that. Until the Obama administration, standing alongside Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, tried to force the constitutional government of Honduras to ignore its own laws, the country was operating peacefully and in good order. Today, it is not and the United States of America is to blame.
I’m scheduled to be on the Rick Moran show tonight and, since he’ll also have Fausta Wertz and Jennifer Rubin on, Honduras will get a lot of discussion. Be sure to tune in.
UPDATE: Posted in an expanded form at The Greenroom.
Tags: Foreign Policy, Honduras
