What Will Chavez Do?

[tekisui]

Will Chavez get involved, more than words, with the right-wing takeover in Honduras? He is meeting with the exiled leader, Zelaya on Monday. The sole Leftist candidate remaining has been assassinated.

What, if anything, will Chavez do?

What, if anything, will we, the US, do?

[flamingdem]

1. I'm glad Obama is in charge

Bush would be thrilled with the new guys who got rid of the "leftist" leader.

Democratically elected leader people, why does CNN constantly say "leftist"
now that half of South America has booted out their right wing governments?

[EFerrari]

4. Much more than half. That's how badly Donald Rumsfeld screwed the pooch.

[flamingdem]

10. I hope he suffers watching Hugo, Zelaya, Obama, Funes, etc

solving this current crisis together.

[EFerrari]

14. Yeah. I hope that progressive unity is a thorn in his rear for the rest of his miserable life.

[EFerrari]

2. He has already done it. He has already shown that the progressive leaders

of Latin America won't sit with this.

And, Obama, to his credit, has also denounced this coup.

Let's not fly off the handle here. We have this amazing moment, where there are more democratic governments than ever in Latin America -- mostly because the neocons were too busy in the Middle East -- and we can get on the same page.

Cross something, tekisui. :)

[tekisui]

8. Everything I got is crossed.

:)

[EFerrari]

9. Cool.

:)

[billyoc]

3. Chavez threatens military action over Honduras coup

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday put his troops on alert over a coup in Honduras and said he would respond militarily if his envoy to the Central American country was killed or kidnapped.

Chavez said Honduran soldiers took away the Cuban ambassador and left the Venezuelan ambassador on the side of a road after beating him during the army's coup against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya.

The Honduran army ousted Zelaya and exiled him on Sunday in Central America's first military coup since the Cold War, after he upset the army by trying to win re-election.

Chavez, on state television, said if the Venezuela ambassador was killed, or troops entered the Venezuela embassy, "that military junta would be entering a defacto state of war, we would have to act militarily." He said,"I have put the armed forces of Venezuela on alert."

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http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-40653020090628

[EFerrari]

5. That's old by now. Haven't you heard?

That was before Obama's government said no to the coup.

What a day.

:crazy:

[billyoc]

6. Ah, good. Yeah, what a day.

[EFerrari]

7. But, you can count on that statement from Chavez showing up until Wednesday.

:rofl:

[flamingdem]

11. Let's face it Hugo is the entertainment!

I never laughed so hard as when he called W the devil.

Somehow I think he's too smart to go cowboy on Honduras. Too expensive.
But who knows.

[EFerrari]

13. My grocer friend across the street just described to me what it was like

to be the first ones on the battlefield during the last war Honduras/El Salvador. He said there were trucks and trucks bearing corpses going the other way, people and oxen all piled up together.

Here's hoping the people will not suffer for this stupidity. :(

[timeforpeace]

12. US record on interferring with foreign political issues, remember? Conventional wisdom on Iran?

Consistency demands we let them resolve it themselves, right?

[EFerrari]

15. Consistency would have been some cowboy at State or the Pentagon

not greenlighting this in the first place.