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Caribbean-Latin America
Chavez calls Honduran peace talks dead
2009-07-11
[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

#4  the first US GI life lost in furtherment of O's and Chavez's goals will be a rallying cry pushing the Donks into minority party for a decade. Bring it on at your peril, Donks!
Posted by: Frank G   2009-07-11 19:52  

#3  Would the U.S. military go along with something like that?

The US military will obey the orders of the legally elected and installed Commander in Chief, provided those orders do not abrogate the Constitution, which they have sworn to uphold.

OTOH they might ... carefully take time to do the necessary planning ... while expressing respectful caveats regarding outcomes etc.
Posted by: lotp   2009-07-11 19:28  

#2  Is Obama threatening military action?

Would the U.S. military go along with something
like that? I imagine we would recruit some proxy,
but how could they refuse?
Posted by: Nero Slavise5119   2009-07-11 07:47  

#1  US State Department Spokesman Philip Crowley rejected Chavez's remarks, calling the Arias effort the 'best route to try to resolve this peacefully'.

Is Obama threatening military action?
Posted by: DoDo   2009-07-11 03:01  

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