Dueling resolutions in Congress about Honduras

Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez are right, the US is stalling until Zelaya's term ends. US-backed negotiator Oscar Arias is exposed again as a tool of American imperialism. Those are US trained troops in Honduras. Those are Honduran troops being trained as we speak at Fort Benning's School of Americas. That's our Cuban-American US ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, that knew of the coup for weeks prior to Zelaya's ouster.

Dueling resolutions in Congress about Honduras

Author: Emile Schepers
People's Weekly World Newspaper, 07/18/09 00:18

While every day dramatic scenes are acted out on the streets of Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula and other cities in Honduras, pro- and anti-coup forces are also active in the United States, and especially on Capitol Hill.

A group of Democrats from headed by congressmen from Massachusetts, Bill Delahunt and Jim McGovern, have introduced a resolution, HR 630, denouncing the June 28 coup in Honduras and calling for the return to power of legally elected President Manuel Zelaya, who was overthrown and forcibly exiled by the military coup last month.

The full text of the resolution can be read online at http://www.thomas.loc.gov.

In addition to denouncing the coup and calling for Zelaya’s immediate return to power, the resolution calls for the Obama administration to continue to recognize Zelaya as the legitimate president, and, in the resolution’s wording “urges the Obama administration to suspend non-humanitarian assistance to the de facto Micheletti government as required by United States law...”

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Meanwhile, the anti-Zelaya, pro-coup factions in U.S. politics have not been idle. Republicans, under the leadership of Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., and a few conservative Democrats have met with various politicians from the pro-coup faction who traveled up to Washington D.C.

The pro-coup faction in Congress, based on the Cuban exile groups of South Florida and the Republican right, have launched their own resolution, essentially parroting the "defacto government's" rational for the military coup and demanding U.S. recognition of the coup government.

At writing, the two resolutions are running almost neck and neck, with 20 cosponsors for the anti-coup resolution, and 19 for the pro-coup one.

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