Honduras leader vows to resist world pressure

Honduras leader vows to resist world pressure
Posted Saturday, August 1 2009 at 18:46

TEGUCIGALPA, Saturday

Honduras’ de facto leader vowed yesterday that no country will push the small Central American nation around and pledged to resist international pressure to reinstate toppled President Manuel Zelaya.

Roberto Micheletti, who was named president by Congress just hours after soldiers overthrew Zelaya on June 28, said Honduras had enough basic foodstuffs to endure economic sanctions if it were further isolated over the coup.

“We don’t accept anyone imposing anything on us. There is no country – no matter how powerful – that is going to tell us what to do,” he told Reuters in an interview.

The United States, Honduras’ No. 1 trading partner, withdrew military aid and cancelled diplomatic visas to important figures in the interim government to pressure Micheletti to reinstate leftist Zelaya.

Latin American countries and the European Union have also lined up against Micheletti, a former head of Congress.

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power, and took actions that were in the interest of his people--economic decisions such as raising the minimum wage against rich/corporate interests in sweatshops, economic/political decisions such as turning against US-dominated "free trade" and joining ALBA (the Central American barter trade group organized by Venezuela, by which Zelaya got cheap oil for this people), and a security proposal to convert the US military base in Honduras to a commercial airport; also, the decision that it is time for serious social justice and political reform in Honduras. He asserted Honduran sovereignty against the enormous power of the US, and here we have this coupster, who had Zelaya's house shot up, and had Zelaya seized from his bed at gunpoint and flown out of the country, and who is allied with grossly interfering Bushwhacks like John McCain, John Negroponte and Otto Reich, claiming that he is standing up to the bully US. What a laugh! What he wants is to suck further of the US taxpayer teat!

just as the owners of factories in the U.S. lost, who fought so hard to keep children working hard, long hours, in dangerous conditions, to get the work done while paying almost nothing at all.

Our own history is blood drenched, and the facts of the peoples' struggle for every little step to make life less a living hell are deeply buried, and known only to those who take the time to uncover them through reading, through research. Very few people are conscious of the murders and beatings, and torture meted out along the way by the business owners in this country against desperate people struggling against absolute tyranny right here.

Apparently the overriding belief is if you can keep people broken enough, and properly intimidated, they won't dare rock the boat by asking for more respect, more humanity from the ones who have brutal control of their lives.

As we have seen from our own history, or can see, if we take the time to investigate, people can and do win against the forces of hell itself from time to time.

Central America is due to move out from under the thumbs of the opporessors, as is the rest of Latin America. It's all happening at once, little by little. They are changing, moving, and they won't go back.

People of conscience can only wish them the very best.