Honduras Heads Toward Dialogue

[Louisiana1976]

Hopes rose Thursday for dialogue between deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and the regime that ousted him, as did pressure for the removal of tough new restrictions on civil rights.

A group of lawmakers from Brazil visited the Central American nation to discuss efforts to restart mediation as well as conditions at their embassy, where Zelaya has been holed up since his surprise return on September 21.

Zelaya was ousted by the military on June 28 after riling the country's political and business leaders by calling for a referendum to change the constitution, which many saw as a bid to scrap term limits.

After a first failed mediation effort to end the crisis, a top official from the Organization of American States said Wednesday that dialogue between Zelaya and the de facto regime could restart next week.

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[Peace Patriot]

1. "...which many saw as a bid to scrap term limits." I'm surprised that RawStory is promulgating

this crapola.

It should read: "...which Lanny Davis saw as a bid to scrap term limits." This was the LIE and the SLANDER that the coup PR firm tried to sell in the USA. Nobody "saw it that way" (let alone "many"). It was a rightwing "talking point" (i.e., a lie, propaganda, psyops, brainwashing, contrived).

Zelaya's championing of a grass roots proposal for a Constituent Assembly to reform the Constitution (which was written by Reagan's henchmen in the 1980s) HAD NOTHING WHATEVER TO DO WITH TERM LIMITS.

This RawStory article has a couple of other points at which it adopts the language of the Associated Pukes. They should do better research. They should visit the Democratic Underground Latin American Forum, where you can find lots of posts of stories written by people who are on-the-ground in Honduras.