Diplomats on front line as Honduran crisis deepens

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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Golpistas are not just tainted by what they do, but also by the company they keep.

Obama does not appear to be any more popular in diplomatic circles than Bush was.

Having people with years of experience on hand to get his administration up and running fast is no advantage if they are all criminals.

Very depressing.

I think that a lot of Countries are tired of being bullied and see this as an opportunity to make a statement. It just happens to be during Obama's term. You have to admit that for all the talk about rogue nations, for the last half century we have been the rogue.

As Pogo said, "I have me the enemy, and he is us."

throughout Latin America. Clearly, our government didn't want the USAmerican citizens to know about any of it, not any of the secretive funding and training of death squads, hit teams, organizing violent coups, buying newspapers in other countries, like "El Mercurio," bought by Nixon and the CIA to spread filthy propaganda against Allende prior to his election, to try to prevent it, then after it, during the US organized strikes to "make the economy scream" as Nixon described it to Richard Helms, then using those newspapers, radio and tv stations to pump up support with the citizens for the US puppet dictators who took the jobs of the murdered leftists, the endless scheming, plotting slick attacks on leftists all over the continent, and Central America, and the Caribbean.

Sure, they are sick as hell all over the place, and the only ones who aren't are the ones who did very well while the others suffered. I'm surprised the people haven't risen up and beat them to a pulp already, but they were always able to keep the people terrorized by controlling power, with US help, and having the armies, air forces, navies all involved in suppressing the citizens. The people have NEVER had any way to resist them. The people have had NO ONE on their side with power.

They are gathering power the hard way: the way that takes time, and gathers over generations of brave, tired, and angry people. One day they WILL succeed, and all the right-wing dirtbags in the world won't be able to wish them away. I only hope I live to see it.

It looks as if our own Defense Department has had a life of its own for decades, and is planning on devastating the people's movement in Latin America, just trying to set it up now from Colombia. What the Americas will do to protect themselves in the next year is going to be vitally important, day by day. It's a true life or death issue for them.