{"id":14337,"date":"2009-09-13T06:07:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T11:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14337"},"modified":"2009-09-13T06:07:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T11:07:18","slug":"on-the-wrong-side-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14337","title":{"rendered":"On the wrong side of history"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States government has withdrawn the diplomatic visa of the de facto Honduran president, Roberto Micheletti, to force him to step down from his position and to force the return of ousted Manuel Zelaya to that position (Reuters<\/a> link);<\/p>\n

“We received letters from the U.S. Consulate in Honduras which say that because of the what happened on June 28, our visas have been suspended,” Micheletti said.<\/p>\n

Micheletti has not visited the United States since the June 28 coup. A month after the coup, the U.S. State Department said it had revoked the diplomatic visas of four members of Honduras’ de facto government, but did not name them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So in a few weeks, the Hondurans have their national elections and all of this will be history. Does anyone think the new Honduran government will just forgive and forget how the Obama Administration injected itself into the constitutional discussion on this Latin neighbor? <\/p>\n

The BBC <\/a>says that the Obama Administration has also halted aid to Honduras;<\/p>\n

Last week, the US halted all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras – about $30m (\u00a318.4m) – in the wake of the coup.<\/p>\n

The State Department said the US needed to take strong action given the failure of the replacement regime to restore “democratic, constitutional rule”. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By whose standard? The Honduran Constitution demanded that the government imprison Zelaya for conspiring to alter the document. They let him off easy. Who is the US State Department to determine what is “constitutional rule” in Honduras? How do they know more about “constitutional rule” than the Honduran Supreme Court which ordered the Honduran Army to remove Zelaya? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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