"Permanent-Vacation" Time For Foreign-Policy Rookies?

[Mr. Shaman]

So, they wanna hang-out with "rebels", huh??

"Rep. Doug Lamborn joined three other Republicans on Friday to meet interim President Roberto Micheletti in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. The Obama administration has condemned the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya and brought Micheletti to power.

Lamborn insisted that Zelaya was legally removed from the presidency because he broke the law by seeking a second term in office.

Some in the GOP believe that Zelaya would have promoted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's socialist agenda in Latin America."

Micheletti should probably hold their passports, you know...so they don't miss any of what's coming-up, in Honduras.​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

I surely hope they're takin'-in all the local-fare!!!!!​

"The Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras (COFADEH) says Hondurans are indeed being tortured, burned with cigarettes and sodomized by batons, and that some of the torturers are veterans of Battalion 316, an infamous Honduran death squad from the 1980s.http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091026/grandin"

Who knows....maybe they were simply celebrating Ronald Reagan Daze!​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

The Republican Gang-O'-Four must (really) be enjoying watching how the Librul-media is being controled, down-that-way....

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"Honduras' interim leaders put in place new rules Saturday that threaten broadasters with closure for airing reports that "attack national security," further restricting media freedom following the closure of two opposition stationshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/10/AR2009101000266.html?sec-world.

The U.S. and other nations have suspended foreign aid and imposed diplomatic isolation on the interim administration."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Yeah....this is a Dictatorship (only) Fascists-For-Reagan could enjoy!!!

"Suspicious deaths. Beatings. Random police shootings. Life under the de facto government of Honduras at times feels uncannily like Latin America's dark-past of military-rule.. "

 

[Mr. Shaman]

"Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya and de facto Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti reached an agreement late Thursday to resolve a months-long standoff over who should lead the country and appears to open the door for Zelaya to return to power.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, traveling in Pakistan early Friday, hailed the accord as a big step forward for Latin America after months of political paralysis. The deal was brokered by the Organization of American States, with high-level diplomatic involvement from the United States.

Clinton dispatched Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon and Dan Restrepo, National Security Council's representative for the Western Hemisphere, to Tegucigalpa this week to finalize the accord, after it became clear to her from telephone conversations with Zelaya and Micheletti that a deal was finally possible."

Yeah....Republican-rookies will have to find some other Dictatorship/playground, for it's entertainment-value.​