Recently, Republicans Congressmen were visiting the New Coup President of Honduras, while the people rioted out side.
Seems they are backing the coup, in favor of anti-socialism and Hugo "let's do coke" Chavez.
I wouldn't be suprised if the CIA were to over-run the Brazilian Embassy, via local paid thugs, and oust the "President" again, or kill him.
LIke that Iranian "Nukular" Scientist that dissappeared in Saudi Arabia on a pilgramige.
The Coup will succeed, as long as you let it.
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Are Republicans Breaking US Law in Honduras?
CounterPunch - Brendan Cooney - Oct 7, 2009
“He is the president of Honduras,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking
Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Monday. ...
South Florida Republicans, back from Honduras, call for US backing of elections MiamiHerald.com
Battle over Honduras policy heats up Foreign Policy
Fla. GOP lawmakers to visit new Honduras president The Associated Press
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all 1,890 news articles »Email this storyHonduras talks struggle with issue of Zelaya return
Reuters - Alan Elsner - 5 minutes ago
Republicans in the United States have criticized Obama for supporting
Zelaya's return. The ousted leader allied Honduras with leftist Venezuelan
President ...BBC NewsRepublicans visit Honduras despite US coup policy
The Associated Press - Ben Fox - Oct 2, 2009
Florida Congressman Connie Mack, the ranking Republican on the US House
Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, was the first US lawmaker to visit Honduras ...
Kerry, GOP senator tussle over Honduran trip Boston Globe
Defying Obama, Republican Senator Making Honduras Trip CBS News
Kerry's Attempt to Block DeMint's Honduras Trip Reveals Policy Feud
Washington Post
Brendan Cooney: Are Republicans Breaking US Law in Honduras?
Are Republicans Breaking US Law in Honduras?
By BRENDAN COONEY
As if the right needed to add to its anti-democratic pedigree, Republican
leaders have flocked to Tegucigalpa to bolster the junta in Honduras.
Nine Congressional Republicans – including seven in the past week as the
crisis heats up -- have now met with Roberto Micheletti, who took power
after a military coup June 28.
This is a coup that has been denounced by everyone from the Organization
of American States to the United Nations, which passed a resolution
calling “categorically on all states to recognise no government other than
that” of the elected president, Manuel Zelaya. No state has recognized Micheletti as president.
But U.S. Republicans have.
“He is the president of Honduras,” said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking
Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on Monday. “Some
people tell me 'de facto' government, but under the Constitution of the
Republic I am seated here with the president of this country and it’s a great
honor.”
Leading us further down the rabbit hole is South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint,
a member of the Foreign Relations committee, who visited Micheletti and his
backers Oct. 2: “We saw a government working hard to follow the rule of
law, uphold its constitution, and to protect democracy for the people of
Honduras.”
Consistent with every other country, from Venezuela on the left to Colombia
on the right, U.S. President Barack Obama’s policy has been to not recognize
or meet with Micheletti.
Since contact with Micheletti is in direct conflict with stated U.S. interests,
these nine Republicans, as well as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,
who has aided them, seem to have broken U.S. law. The Logan Act says that
anyone who without government authorization “directly or indirectly
commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign
government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the
measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent
thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States,
or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined under this title
or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.”
Tomas Ayuso, a research fellow at the Council on Hemispheric affairs who
spent the summer reporting on the crisis from Tegucigalpa, agrees. The
members of Congress meeting with Micheletti “are in violation of the Logan
Act,” he said.
washingtonpost.com
Kerry's Attempt to Block DeMint's Honduras Trip Reveals Policy Feud
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, October 2, 2009
A simmering feud over U.S. policy toward Latin America burst into the open
Thursday when Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) tried to prevent a fact-finding
trip to Honduras by a Republican senator who is blocking two important
diplomatic appointments.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) denounced Kerry's move on the
Senate floor and sought the intervention of the minority leader, Sen. Mitch
McConnell (R-Ky.). The Republican leader appealed to the Defense
Department to provide an aircraft for DeMint's trip and the Pentagon agreed
to do so, according to the South Carolina senator's office.
"These bullying tactics by the Obama administration and Senator Kerry must
stop, and we must be allowed to get to the truth in Honduras," DeMint said in
a statement. His spokesman, Wesley Denton, called Kerry's action "unprecedented."
Kerry fired back in a news release: "Senator DeMint's statement wins an A
for 'audacity.' Thanks to his intransigence, the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee can't even hold hearings on our policy in Central and South
America."
The statement, issued by Kerry's spokesman, Frederick Jones, added that
when DeMint allows a vote on the appointment of the two diplomats, "the
Committee will approve his travel to Honduras."
DeMint and a handful of other conservative Republicans have
said Zelaya's removal was legal because he had violated a constitutional ban
by trying to extend his presidential term. They have protested that the
Obama administration is supporting a politician with close ties to Venezuela's
leftist president, Hugo Ch?vez.
For weeks, DeMint has held up a critical Senate vote on Arturo Valenzuela,
Obama's choice to be assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere
affairs, and Thomas A. Shannon Jr., the nominee to be ambassador to Brazil.
DeMint aides said he was preparing to travel to Honduras on Friday with
three Republican House members -- Aaron Schock (Ill.), Peter Roskam (Ill.)
and Doug Lamborn (Colo.) -- when they learned that the trip had been nixed
by Kerry.
As head of the Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry can withhold committee
funds for travel and deny permission for the use of military aircraft. But he
had never before used that power to block another senator's travel, his aides said.
DeMint's office said Thursday evening that thanks to
McConnell's intervention, the trip would go forward. DeMint's statement
accused the State Department of being part of the effort to block his trip.
But Philip J. Crowley, a State Department spokesman, denied that it had
played any such role. "We don't control congressional travel," he said.