Sec. Clinton on Honduras Coup

[subcomhd]

Source: State Department

The action taken against Honduran President Mel Zelaya violates the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, and thus should be condemned by all. We call on all parties in Honduras to respect the constitutional order and the rule of law, to reaffirm their democratic vocation, and to commit themselves to resolve political disputes peacefully and through dialogue. Honduras must embrace the very principles of democracy we reaffirmed at the OAS meeting it hosted less than one month ago.

Read more: http://secretaryclinton.wordpress.com/

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Change we can believe in.

[flamingdem]

1. If possession is 9 tenths of the law..

then it might not just be solved with diplomacy.

[subcomhd]

2. I would discourage direct military action

BUT - I bet we have ways to really make the Honduran caudillos cry uncle.

[flamingdem]

3. Like no more of Tio Sam's dinero??

That'll learn 'em.

[subcomhd]

4. Oh, yeah. Freeze some bank acounts

edited for spelling

[rocktivity]

5. Does this mean that CAFTA

was a GOOD idea?

:shrug:
rocktivity

[Joanne98]

6. That's not good enough.

[subcomhd]

7. It is only a reversal of more than

one-hundred years of supporting right-wing military, land-owning Latin American interests.

[Alhena]

8. What is- invasion?

[timeforpeace]

9. What would be good enough?

[subcomhd]

10. Anyone who thinks this isn't significant

hasn't been paying attention since the Spanish-American War.

[timeforpeace]

12. We walked on egg shells with the Iran election, but we're knocking some heads in little Honduras?

[subcomhd]

14. Totally Different Dynamics

For one, the whole religious thing.

Two - In Iran, openly supporting the democrats falls into the old paradigm of American meddling in that the current regime overthrew a US puppet. So even if the democratic resistance isn't American inspired, supporting it hurts it.

In Latin America, we are actually taking the side to people we opposed so long.

[SharonAnn]

16. We've always had a lot of influence (control) in Honduras. It's our staging ground for Central

America and the Caribbean. We have an enormous air base there.

Honduras is a beautiful country, but the United Fruit Company really had a long and negative influence on it.

[zonkers]

11. "So Say We All" !!

[Downwinder]

13. School of the Americas tie.

A military coup has taken place in Honduras this morning (Sunday, June 28), led by School of the Americas (SOA) graduate Romeo Vasquez. In the early hours of the day,

http://www.soaw.org/

[subcomhd]

15. That is what makes the US position so historical/

[Downwinder]

17. We haven't come far since O'Henry. So much for evolution.

[subcomhd]

18. I don't get the O'henry reference

BUT to put things in perspective

BUSH POLICY
"We do hope that Chávez recognizes that the whole world is watching and that he takes advantage of this opportunity to right his own ship, which has been moving, frankly, in the wrong direction for quite a long time."<26> Rice gave no opinion on the plotters.
WIKIPEDIA

OBAMA POLICY
"The action taken against Honduran President Mel Zelaya violates the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter, and thus should be condemned by all."

[Downwinder]

20. Read "Cabbages and Kings" sometime.

Link to the e-book http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2777

[subcomhd]

22. Thanks for the homework.

[MasonJar]

19. Insist that the democracy is restored along with the elected president or

pull out all the stops.

[subcomhd]

21. Hell yes.

[Downwinder]

23. And as usual retire the Generals to South Florida.

[subcomhd]

25. Fine

Tell them the have a place in S. Beach. Look, our relationship with those caudillo types is sort of mafiaso anyway. Beach-front retirement in Florida or we cut off all military aid, freeze your bank acounts, etc. and you have to leave anyway, if you can get out in time. The easy way or the hard way.

[Beacool]

24. Another military coup in Latin America.

I thought that they were a thing of the past, I guess not.

Thanks for the link, great Hillary pics.

:hi:

[subcomhd]

26. You Are Welcome

and yeah, those are some cool pics. There might be a screen saver or two in there.

[Beacool]

28. Yep.

Nice blog, I had never seen it before.

;)

[EFerrari]

27. Well done, Madame Secretary!

[subcomhd]

29. I always thought Obama would make her AG

But his decision to put her at State seems better and better every day. Not that it was ever in doubt and I don't mean just this episode, I think she has been a perfect top-diplomat from the time she took office. Hillary rocks.