Tag: "Honduras"
The Little Honduras That Could
Well, good on them. Defying a boycott plea by deposed President Manuel Zelaya, Hondurans flocked to the polls in unexpectedly large numbers Sunday to hand a convincing victory to Porfirio Pepe Lobo Sosa of the opposition National Party. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) at 9:20 p.m. EST gave Mr. Lobo, 61, 315,963 votes (52.7 percent [...]
Distorting Honduran History at the New York Times
I’m having a hard time deciding whether this article in the New York Times is dishonest or just biased toward the Obama Administration’s point of view. The author purports to be critical of the administrations vacillations toward the situation in Honduras, but clearly she’s in the tank on the administration’s approved explanation about what happened [...]
Man, Those Jews Are Everywhere!
If Max Zelaya doesn’t get back in as the President of Honduras, he’s certainly qualified to be Barack Obama’s Green Czar. At least he has the crazy as a bedbug qualification locked down. It’s been 89 days since Manuel Zelaya was booted from power. He’s sleeping on chairs, and he claims his throat is sore [...]
What in the Name of All That’s Holy Are We Doing to Honduras?
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 [...]
The Honduran People Will Pay for Our Shameful Behavior
I am truly ashamed of the way my government is treating the people of Honduras. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton terminated a large part of U.S. assistance to Honduras Thursday over the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya and said that Washington would not recognize the results of elections scheduled for November. The State Department [...]
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