Obama, Chavez, and Castro lose in Honduras election - Honduras wins
The winner of the election in Honduras - a conservative rancher named Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo; the losers - socialists Barack Obama, who previously supported the want-a-be socialist dictator Manuel Zelaya, and Hugo Chavez who continues to support him:
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A conservative rancher named Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo took the Honduran presidency in elections Sunday, five [...]
Obama’s Honduran mistake, Part Two
As Scott discussed here, the Obama administration has decided to cut off all non-humanitarian aid to Honduras in an attempt to pressure the country’s interim government to accept the return of its deposed president. The deposed president, Manuel “Mel” Zelaya, is a friend of Hugo Chavez who illegally sought to emulate Chavez’s ascent [...]
Obama’s Honduran mistake
At first it appeared that Barack Obama and his foreign policy team might be having a hard time distinguishing America’s friends from America’s enemies. With their treatment of Israel and Honduras, however, one can safely infer that they have a pretty good bead on the friend/enemy distinction. The problem is that in many [...]
Piddling Away Greatness
Today, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — presumably speaking for her boss — doubled down on supporting erstwhile Honduran president and would-be dictator José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (a.k.a. Mel Zelaya) instead of rule of law in Honduras:
A day after failing to land in Honduras to confront the interim government that ousted him in a coup, [...]
High Noon in Honduras?
Former Honduras President Manuel Zelaya says he is getting on an airplane to return to Tegucigalpa, accompanied, apparently, by the President of the U.N. General Assembly and a group of journalists. The interim government of Honduras has ordered the military and police not to let any airplane carrying Zelaya land.
If turned away, it will [...]
