Headstrong Honduran ruler resists world pressure

Source: Reuters


TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Roberto Micheletti, the headstrong veteran politician who took power in Honduras when President Manuel Zelaya was toppled, is defying international pressure to reinstate his old friend and end media curbs.

Despite repeated warnings from the United States, the European Union and Latin American governments, Micheletti appears to believe they will all buckle in the end and drop demands that Zelaya, who was ousted in a June 28 army coup, be returned to power.

He is betting that the world's attitude toward his de facto government will change as Honduras holds a presidential election on November 29 and the new leader takes office in January.

Neither Micheletti or Zelaya can run in the election, but Micheletti, 61, insists he will stay in power until the new president takes over.

"We are not afraid of the United States, or the State Department, or Brazil, or Mexico, but we are scared of Zelaya," the gruff white-haired ruler told visiting foreign ministers and the top U.S. diplomat for Latin America last week.


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http://www.narconews.com/Issue61/article3883.html

So this murderous thug is only digging himself, his class and their owners in deeper every time he opens his mouth.

He's trying to hold out until January.

before any newly-elected president's tenure can begin. Otherwise, he will have played everyone for fools and profited from his putsch.

this coup - and revolution - is not about him. The people want a new constitution and formalities to go with, Zelaya goes along with new constitution and coupsters oppose enough to be coupsters. That is the political and democratic frame of this struggle.

... might as well go kiss his white-haired old butt.

:puke:

Listening online to resistance station Radio Globo that has a reporter named Luis Galdamez inside the Brazilian Embassy. This is the kind of news the AP, Reuters and others are NOT reporting.

This afternoon:

Military outside the embassy prohibited delivery of fruit, (including bananas), clean clothes including underwear, socks and other clothing. Shampoo, toothpaste, shaving razors, soap were confiscated.

Food for the 60+ people in the embassy with Zelaya and his wife is delivered by NGOs in plastic continers and military have their dogs sniff it first. Items like cakes or empanadas are poked with bayonets (guess military fear a cake-bomb or something).

Rumors yesterday and today have swept the capital that the gorillas are planning to dig a tunnel into the embassy grounds. Globo said it was investigating a report that trucks carrying dirt had been seen driving away from near the embassy. The houses next to the embassy were evacuated after Zelaya arrived at the embassy on Sept. 21.

Again, these are rumors, but that is what happens when a dictatorship imposes censorship.