Un estudio del Departamento de Asuntos PolÃticos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU) sobre la causas que provocaron la crisis en Honduras, concluyó que la destitución del ex presidente Manuel Zelaya, “fue constitucional y de acuerdo las leyes del paÃs”, confirmaron fuentes oficiales de ese organismo.
“A study by the UN’s Department of Political Affairs regarding the causes that provoked the Honduran crisis concluded that the ouster of ex-President Manuel Zelaya “was constitutional and in accordance with the country’s laws,” according to sources within the department.
And f*ck you, too, John Kerry.
UPDATE: What Fausta and I knew about the “coup” back on June 28th, that the White House should also have known.
To be heard from His Holy Lips sometime soon: “That’s not the U.N. I knew…”
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New York, 14 October 2009 – Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on Honduras
The United Nations wishes to clarify that its position, regarding the legality of the removal of President Zelaya in Honduras has been clearly articulated by the General Assembly Resolution 63/301 adopted on 1 July 2009. This resolution “condemns the coup d’etat in the Republic of Honduras that has interrupted the democratic and constitutional order and the legitimate exercise of power in Honduras.â€
A recent Honduran media report appears to refer to an analysis submitted by a consultant as representing the views of the Department of Political Affairs This is highly misleading. The Department of Political Affairs routinely receives reports and analyses of this type from consultants, academics and other experts. But its views are strictly in line with that outlined in the General Assembly Resolution.
The Secretary-General urges the parties in Honduras to avoid distractions at this critical moment in the negotiations and remain focused on arriving at a consensual agreement to end the crisis in Honduras through dialogue.
He continues to strongly support OAS-led efforts to assist the parties in reaching a solution.
http://www.un.org/apps/sg/sgstats.asp
Yes, thank you for the update. It might have warped my perspective on the UN if they’d done some plain dealing.
Having read the relevant sections of the Honduran Constitution, and the Supreme Court findings with regard to Mr. Zelaya’s behavior, and considering also as a matter after the fact his embezzlement, I find that anyone calling this a coup can stick it up their ass.
Don’t threaten thor with a good time, Dan.
“I find that anyone calling this a coup can stick it up their ass.”
Oh Mah Gawd, ME TOO!
I think Dan dreams of the day a platoon of Honduran midgets will massage his feet at his command and pleasure.
Why else the on-and-on-and-on?
Hondurans obviously love Obama. Under Obama they’re going to the World Cup. The whole country would line up to butt fuck the Pope in order to get to the World Cup, and now they’re there!
Yeah Onduraz!
http://www.theage.com.au/world/deal-may-return-zelaya-20091015-gz4m.html
Suck it.
http://faustasblog.com/?p=16293
Zelaya may go to Spain…
Counter-suck-it…
Who cares? Oh yeah, you do, since you think you can score some political points over it, and scoring cheap points is of omni-import when you’re a overly political harpy.
Our State Department did a great job, meaning their goal was not to add more instability to an unstable situation and it looks like they’ve accomplished that.
Like I said, the Hondurans probably care more about qualifying for the World Cup via the Americans tie with Costa Rica versus the squabbling between their dopey leaders. But of course you knowledge of Central and South America runs so-so deep that you already knew that.
http://www.tiempo.hn/
I don’t play politics with foreign policy thor; quite the opposite, I believe in not telling stories outside the home-so to speak…
But I couldn’t hold my tongue when it came to Honduras, not only because of Chavez’s meddling vis-a-vis his assistance in defrauding the already illegal Zelaya plebescite, but because of the administrations shameful vilification of the legal removal and apparent support for the lawbreaker by Obama.
I’ll say it plainly. I don’t like the way he scrapes, crawls, and appeases all of America’s enemies, but treats our traditional friends and allies like crap. And I don’t like all of the dithering on the Afghanistan reinforcements. It smacks of Mr. Obama, and all the major Democrats, having played a cynical game of politics during the 2008 election; and of the hypocrisy of their embrace of the alleged “good war” while pillorying Boooooooosh! over Iraq. Obama acted like he was gonna go all kill-crazy sooper-trooper if elected, and win the war while capturing Bin-Laden. And now he can’t tell that idiot Biden of Arabia to STFU and fullfill McChrystal’s already reduced request.
The astonishing thing about captain bullshit’s postpartisan-palaver is that were he to do the right thing in Afghanistan, he could count on all the bi-partisan support from RethugliKKKanz and Blue Dogs that he could ever hope to get press on; and that in turn would enhance his reputation amongst the voters and perhaps buy him some badly needed goodwill from his political opposition…
But, you already knew all that!
Of Honduras Obama said something to the extent that he hoped all parties would conduct themselves within the spirit of democracy. Quit your fuckin’ lying.
Our relations are no closer with Chavez today than when Bush was President, contrary to your duddering your lies. Obama approved an increase in aide to Colombia, which didn’t score any love-points with Chavez, now did it.
Your narratives are always a fraud from the start and that’s because you’re a phony, truth means nothing to you; you’re all about the good/bad binary, Bushy-Wonnie-Weagan-good, Obama-bad, duuuh-cluck-cluck-cluck.
And of Afghanistan, “you lie!” Haha. We’ve already almost doubled our troops in Afghanistan under Obama this year. Why didn’t you pussy ass neo-cons have enough troops there under Boooooshy-pie? Because you’re all-talk no-brains pussies, that’s why. There might not be anything there to win, in reality, as was the case in Iraq. Do you have any WMD for show-and-tell? No, no you don’t.
The Russians, whoop (!!!), now they went into Kabul for real, like real fuckin’ men do, and what was the result? They killed many and left few standing and what’d they get out of it? Yeah, but you’re the great military thinker, ha!
We have to figure out what the benefit is to militarizing the place, and listening to gung-ho trigger-Johnnies hasn’t won us shit there so far. When you have something other than a track record of military failure then you’ll be allowed to sit at the strategy table with the adults, mmkay.
“The $518 million in Colombia aid requested by the Obama administration for next year is only marginally less than the final aid package—$545 million—delivered by the Bush administration. Furthermore, for those who were hoping that the new administration would reduce funding for the Colombian military in favor of increased social and economic aid, the new package is particularly disheartening. The Obama administration’s proposal has 57 percent of US aid going to the Colombian military compared to 56 percent last year under the Bush administration. The final package will most likely see a small reduction in the amount earmarked for the military thanks to amendments made to the House bill (54 percent of aid to the military) and by the Senate Appropriations Committee (53 percent).”
http://www.londonprogressivejournal.com/issue/show/81?article_id=497
http://www.cipcol.org/?p=848
It doesn’t say aid to Colombia is increasing; but at least it’s decreasing by less than 10%. And I commend President Obama if he sees the error of candidate Obama’s now seemingly purely political opposition to the Columbia trade agreement…
If you have a more relevant link, let me have it…
We haven’t doubled our troop resence yet; but we will if Mr. Obama does the right thing. And while I’m no neocon, simply an old school one, I for one have been on the soapbox for a while about trusting the Afghan mission to the NATO bunch; we should have had more US troops there-perhaps by moving them out of Europe so this Eurozone nations can pay their fair share of their own friggin’ defense for a change…
But you’re wrong; there is something to win there-our credibility in the region. If we get rolled by the Islamo-fascists there, the next domino is Pakistan, and then it’s nuclear war with india, as well as AQ getting Pakistani nukes…
I call ‘em as I see ‘em. And the trouble is the trigger Johnnies haven’t been listened to yet. We can do something the Russians could never do there, just win baby! If Obama listens to the trigger-Johnnies instead of Biden of Arabia, then we might just do that…
No Binary, baby. If Obama goes balls deep into Afghanistan I’ll stand behind him on that mission all the way. But I’m still dissatisfied with his world apology tour, laying down to the Russians for BUBPKUZ!, and what he’s done so far with Iran. He can redeem himself with me by being tough on the Iranians, telling the Russians to get fucked, and manning up in Afghanistan…
We can’t do what the Russians could do, “win-baby!”
We don’t fight like real men fight, like Russians do.
That’s why they defeated Hitler while we posed and pretended. Russians fuckin’ fight, and we’d no more engage their military today than we would have when they told us to beat it in Europe.
There’s no group I dislike more than the Taliban and that’s because they are, on a certain level at least, similar to your kind of totalitarian fascism-lite.
Obama upped military aide to Colombia, did he not? I really don’t feel like looking up anything to rebut your faggoty Castro-Chazez-Obama name association game. You do that because you’re dumb and a person who is no longer fit to serve this country’s military, and do you know why, because you can’t separate truth from fiction concerning the Commander-in-Chief, hell, you’d likely end up being the next Tokyo Rose for our enemies.
Rocket Bob broadcasting from Lahore! Haha, I got you good.
Sure thor, that’s why the Russians are increasingly relying on their nuclear arsenal:
“Analysts also said his description of the proposed policy shows Russia’s growing reliance on nuclear arms as its conventional arsenal decays and unpopular military reforms stall. Observers say the war with Georgia exposed frailties in Russia’s military, adding urgency to planned reforms.”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9BAUJ680&show_article=1
And, explain to me how I’m a fascist; I didn’t ask for the government to buy up industries like GM and take controlling shares in banks…
Obma up the military aid, sophist, but overall he reduced the aid-read the links. And I don’t play name association ganes, I told you I call a spade a spade…
More like from Kandahar…
The purpose wasn’t to buy GM, Bob, and it wasn’t fascism, Bob, it was done out of economic necessity in the face of economic reality.
Your type got us in this economic shit stew and yet you have the depth of cowardice to babble to the contrary.
America may crack economically, and we’ll all be in it together. If we do break, don’t think for a minute your worthless lies will stand up against the truth. Pray, Bob, pray hard, because the blame will come down on your mindless heads if we blow.
Joe Scarborough mentioned the brainlessness of Reagan-repubs’ constant de-regulation clucking this morning. There’s a bit of hope for a few Repubs, that’s all I have to say positive about your gaggle of know-nothing flag-waving chowder heads.
I wish you were a serious person.