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(HuffingtonPost) – Clinton era advisers like James Carville and Stanley Greenberg had gone on to become political consultants for Latin American presidential candidates favoring free trade policies in Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, and Argentina, as depicted in the documentary film “Our Brand Is Crisis.”
¡Ese negrito que no sabe nada de nada!
(NicaraguaLiving) – Now Obama, fresh from a hemispheric summit in Trinidad, is trying to collaborate with the Organization of American States [OAS] in its unified pressure and isolation against the coup leaders in Honduras. The newly-appointed “foreign minister” of the coup-based regime has called Obama “that little black guy who doesn’t even know where Tegucigalpa is located.” [see also NYT, July 12] So much for the character of the coup plotters.
More below the fold: “The Hillary Sphere of Influence”
Well, luckily the international media and the good folks in Florida [b/c of the Cuba and Venezuela angle) haven’t forgotten:
- ….with the negotiations seemingly going nowhere, Mr. Arias reached out for American support of his own, telling Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that pressure from the United States was crucial to ending the stalemate.
In the two weeks since the coup against Mr. Zelaya, the Obama administration has taken great pains to distance itself from the crisis …
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Cladded with a pijama, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya gave an international press conference from Costa Rica. He then confimed he was still the democratically elected Head of State of his country. Ousted President Zelaya called upon his fellow nationals to press the plotters by peaceful means and civil disobedence. In addition, Zelaya informed he would be attending a regional meeting as Honduran President tomorrow at Nicaragua. Regional coordination in expected to reject the coup in Honduras.Honduran Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Patricia Rodas, was taken hostages. Venezuelan and Cuban Ambassadors wer hurt when Minister Rodas was forcibly taken from her house and held captive at a military instalation. Congress is gathering to declare President Zelaya as incompetent to hold the post. A curfew is expected to be declared shortly in Honduras.
OAS has agreed to act swiftly on the current crisis. Honduran President, Manuel Zelaya has been taken to Costa Rica. During a telephone conversation with Telesur at 11:10 (VLT), President Zelaya spoke from San Jose Airport in Costa Rica. Ousted Zelaya explained how he was kidnapped and betrayed by military forces. Then he was taken as a hostage to Costa Rica on a military plane. He also explained his current status in Costa Rica was as guest and not as a political refugee. Zelaya who was still wearing his pijamas asked the US Obama administration to express its view over the coup against his goverment. Without US backing, this coup would not take root, Zelaya added. An international press conference is expected soon. In Honduras, the President of the National Congress, Roberto Micheletti, declared himself as provisional Head of State until general election were held by November 2009. Such political move does not count with a legal backing in the current Honduran Constitution.
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The ongoing coup has been fueled by military sectors that opposed the attempt to change presidential terms by a Constittutional reform. Zelaya was initially supported by conservatives but then rejected once his government followed a left leaning agenda and established close ties with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and joined ALBA. Pro government supporters of President Manuel Zelaya have been protesting at the presidential palace and confronted military personnel. Power supply has been disrupted. Radio Station are unable to broadcast on the current crisis. Opposition led Honduran channel 11 has been broadcasting cartoons instead of reporting on the coup. The local governmental TV station – Channel 8 -has halted its transmission.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."The first version I read of this had a different word, a slang word for black planation worker, not negrito. will try to find it.
Our Brand is Crisis I highly recommend. Their candidate was utterly clueless – the shots inside his home, full of european paintings and his attempts to talk with factory workers said it all – plus the fact that he spoke spanish with a heavy united statesian accent.