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Chavez calls Honduran peace talks dead
[Iran Press TV Latest] Costa Rica's efforts to find a solution to the Honduran political crisis have been declared 'dead' by the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Naturally you're wondering why Hugo would have a formal role in any of this ...
The Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who has taken on the role of mediator, met with the ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and Roberto Micheletti, leader of the newly installed government, in separate meetings at his home on Thursday.

Zelaya and Micheletti later named delegations to continue the talks with Arias, but there has been no sign of a breakthrough.

"I think that this is dead," Chavez, a strong ally of Zelaya, told reporters in Caracas of Arias' efforts. He said it was 'horrible' that Arias had even agreed to meet with Micheletti at the first place.

US State Department Spokesman Philip Crowley rejected Chavez's remarks, calling the Arias effort the 'best route to try to resolve this peacefully'. "Obviously that statement is premature," Kelly said of Chavez.
Wrong way to handle this; better to whack Hugo with a rolled-up newspaper .. or an axe handle ...
Zelaya was ousted last month in a military coup, after weeks of wrangling over his efforts to change the constitution in order to run for another term in office.

Micheletti was named president, but the coup has been widely condemned and the new government has not been recognized by any foreign country.
Posted by: Fred 2009-07-11
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=274096