Honduras – Seven weeks of unabated resistance despite brutal repression of the coup regime

From the article:

“We expelled Zelaya from the country in order to avoid bloodshed” he said in an interview to AFP, explaining that if he had been arrested, his followers would have stormed the jail to free him and the army would have had to fire, causing many more deaths. In other words, they were afraid of the peoples' reaction against the coup.

Clearly they have revealed they KNOW this is NOT a democratic move they've pulled, and it will NEVER be accepted by the people of Honduras.

They were hoping if they could go ahead and overthrow a "liberal" President, and get him out of the country, and cover their asses with a thick smokescreen of lies, as they tried with Chavez, which backfired, and did with Aristide, then they'd be home free, and they wouldn't have to worry about explaining or justifying it in order to get their own government in place.

They have no Plan B, nor do they have any extended plans, as they appear to have believed all that was needed was that they got rid of the elected President and then they could "wing it."

I had always thought the mountains they were going to go were the mountains in Colorado. Wonder if they changed to the Central American mountains. The growing season in Colorado is too short for them to survive. (tongue in cheek)

A coup for lobbyists at the White House
Saturday, August 8, 2009 11:08 PM CDT

Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, ousted in the middle of the night just over a month ago, enjoys global support for his return, with the exception of the Obama White House. While Barack Obama first called the Honduran military's removal of Zelaya a coup, his administration has backpedaled. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Zelaya's attempt to cross the Nicaraguan border into Honduras "reckless." Could well-placed lobbyists in Washington be forging U.S. foreign policy?

Lanny Davis was special counsel to President Bill Clinton from 1996 to 1998, functioning as lawyer, crisis manager and spokesman through Clinton's various scandals. Davis has developed a lucrative specialty as a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, offering a "unique 'Legal Crisis Communications' practice," helping people embroiled in investigations or scandal. According to recent congressional filings, Davis is lobbying for the Honduran chapter of the Latin American Business Council. Zelaya had recently increased the Honduran minimum wage.

Davis testified before Congress on July 10, saying his clients "believe the best chance for a solution is the dialogue between Mr. Zelaya and President Micheletti, mediated by President Arias, that is now ongoing in Costa Rica." That is, until the Arias sessions resulted in a call for the return of Zelaya. Coup spokesman Cesar Caceres said, "The mediation has been declared a failure."

Davis continued before Congress, "No one wants bloodshed, and nobody should be inciting violence." Yet a number of Zelaya supporters have been killed, and there has been a crackdown on independent media, making information hard to obtain.

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