Opinion: “My Thoughts on Honduras”

Excerpt:

“It appears that the crisis in Honduras is coming to a satisfactory conclusion. It is possible that things could still go badly wrong, but Assistant Secretary of State Tom Shannon has made it clear that unless Mel Zelaya sits in the presidential chair prior to the November 29 election neither the United States nor any other government of the hemisphere will recognize the election results. While we can expect some face-saving maneuvers and delays, it is reasonable to conclude that the coup is over and that is has failed.”

“I am worried by one statement that appeared in the Honduran press today attributed to Shannon in which he seems to say that regardless of how the congressional vote comes out the U.S. government would accept the result. If this is an accurate quote it could be asking for trouble…” Read Article Here


Robert E. White is a former United States ambassador to Paraguay and El Salvador (1980-1981), where he was instrumental in the investigation of the rape and murder of four U.S. churchwomen by Salvadorean death squads. He is currently the president of the Center for International Policy.


4 Responses to "Opinion: “My Thoughts on Honduras”"

  1. miraclemant  November 5, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    Maybe they will teach mel how to make license plates, jajaja

  2. Poolshark  November 5, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    Yeah Mel is going to fade into a role of Jailbird, cellmate, bunkwarmer

  3. gonow  November 4, 2009 at 11:21 am

    mr .white i am sure you have a very clean brain… as it sounds to me that barack and hillary did a very good job washing it for you and left there imprints on it ….in a coup the millietary take over where is that in honduras ?? ….so you worried the congressionel vote might come out against mel….!! wel that will mean they are following the constitution…..what is wrong with that………also….you said …..”mel worked hard to preserve the plundert forest”… i read mel made millions illegal foresting he was one of the biggest plunderes in honduras….. also…..this ”straw vote ” was his try in doing the same thing chavez did …mel was warned 3 or 4 times by the supreme court that it was illegal….he had the ballots printed in venezuela and 45 computers pre programmed with a positive outcome ;… he ”helped ” the poor by raising the minimum wage ………and the unemploiment raised by almost 2% in a short time and ……gone up more in the last 4 month becouse a bunch of …people coused a crisis by backing that thieving crook…….stay out of honduras all you do is make more problems ……by misrepresenting the facts… go back to washington..there are a lot bigger problems to solve ……..

  4. Al  November 4, 2009 at 10:34 am

    Mr. White is another Marxist working for the Obama regime.

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