Events In Honduras

[Magda Hassan]

For the coup leaders their tactic IMO is to just drag this out until Zelaya's term is over and all is moot. Again the USA is doing nothing. One phone call saying all trade was to be shut off [more than half of all GDP is US-based] would get a response in a day...but this is not to be forthcoming, I fear....meaning silent support of the coup by the US. We haven't even had our Ambassador there speak to the coup leaders and express displeasure or cut-off of trade, etc. Pathetic and doesn't bode well for the other countries of the Americas......

Yes Peter. That is my thought that they want to drag this out. Micheletti's people have also raised the possibility of holding 'early elections' as if the have a right to do so. Chomsky and others have signed a protest letter about this saying that there should be no early election. If the US was serious about 'democracy' they would demand Zelays's return, offer a US plane to return him, withdraw their ambassador and military, cut military and other funding and not fund any NGO's like the NED etc. It's quite simple. Obama is watered down water. Eva Golinger says that the ALBA countries should be taking a more direct role in the restoration of Zelaya as it sure ain't going to come from the US.