Diplomats on front line as Honduran crisis deepens

Source: Agence France-Presse

Diplomats on front line as Honduran crisis deepens
AFP
August 22, 2009, 11:42 am

TEGUCIGALPA(AFP) (AFP) - Defiant Argentine diplomats bunkered down in their Tegucigalpa compound on Friday, ignoring a deadline from the country's military-backed government to leave Honduras. Diplomatic sources said Argentine charge d'affaires Alejandro Amura was holed up at his residence on orders from Buenos Aires, which has refused to recognize the interim Honduran government that gained power in a June 28 coup.

Amura is accompanied by an administrative aide, Alejandra Eguino, and her nine-year-old daughter, the sources told AFP, asking not to be named for fear of reprisals.

The Honduran Foreign Ministry said the expulsion order was "strict reciprocity" for Argentina's decision to expel the Honduran ambassador in Buenos Aires because she supported the coup.

The diplomatic fallout from the coup, in which President Manuel Zelaya was bundled out of the country, continued Friday as it emerged Spain would expel the Honduran ambassador in Madrid.



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because the region has moved left.

Isolated strongmen aren't going to be able to last a whole lot longer. I'm just afraid the end will be bloody, bloodier than it already is.

About the only people left supporting them are rich expats and the few colonial oligarchs.

It is not the rich oligarchs who are suffering the bloody heads and noses.

for a return to constitutional, elected government.

History is very clear on what happens to brutal totalitarians who don't provide one hell of a lot of social programs to offset the loss of freedom.

I hate to see it happen, but the people will only take so much. Most of the Army and Police are not from the ruling families and I would bet they are getting an earful from their relatives.

They describe themselves as being pro-freedom and democracy, yet the only freedom they believe in is the one in which rapacious capitalism has a free reign to exploit and murder in the name of profits, and the only democracy they support is when their handpicked candidates win.

No accident they also love them Blue Dogs and think the DLC rocks.

"Spain "finds it opportune to state that its firm position regarding the coup d'etat in Honduras is clear and without reservations," a letter from the Spanish mission to the OAS read."


Word.

the coup? I cannot keep abreast of our so-called (anti-American) rationales.