Showing posts with label Honduras coup 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Honduras coup 2009. Show all posts
Friday, December 11, 2009

Baby’s first jihad

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Ousted Honduran President Zelaya was about to, finally, leave the Brazilian embassy for Mexico, but the coup regime won’t let him unless he...
Monday, November 30, 2009

President Pepe? Really?

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Name of the Day: Honduran not-quite-legitimate-president-elect Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo. Actually, I don’t think I believe the high turnout figu...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Sucker

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Remember how the Honduran coup was “resolved” by an agreement that Zelaya would be restored to power – if and when the Honduran congress vot...
Monday, September 28, 2009

A courtesy

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The Honduran coup regime’s foreign minister threatens to de-embassize (that’s a word, right?) Brazil’s embassy if it doesn’t hand President...
Monday, September 21, 2009

Some common ground

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Honduran President Zelaya has returned to Honduras – well, the Brazilian embassy in Honduras. Very possibly still wearing his pajamas, we ...
Saturday, September 12, 2009

It doesn’t even say ‘Mr. president of the republic’ or anything

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The US finally revokes the visa of the head of Honduras’s coup government. Micheletti amiably says that that’s within the US’s rights, com...
Monday, August 10, 2009

North American summit: I don’t find Canadians particularly scary

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In Guadalajara, Obama met with Mexican President Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Harper. Obama admitted to having a black sheep in his ...
Friday, August 07, 2009

“Obama’s Death Panel” would be a great name for a rock & roll band

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The Obama admin, if this was not obvious already, has decided not to press for the reinstatement of Honduran President Zelaya, who it now p...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

It is at your funeral that you in many ways can see most clearly the things that really matter in life

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Can’t believe I forgot we owned an air strip in Honduras. But when President Zelaya tried to return to his country and they parked all thos...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Propaganda vehicles

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After keeping her captive a week, Israel finally releases former Congresscritter Cynthia McKinney and 15 other activists who had tried to b...
Saturday, July 04, 2009

If you respect life

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The archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, went on tv to tell Zelaya he shouldn’t come back to Honduras. He cited th...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Acting within the law

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Honduras’s interim puppet president Roberto Micheletti told the Wall Street Journal that the coup was conducted in order to protect the con...
Monday, June 29, 2009

Democratic vocation, redux

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At a press conference , Hillary Clinton called “for the full restoration of democratic order in Honduras,” saying that events there had “evo...

What we can’t allow

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The man the Honduran coup leaders have installed as interim president, Roberto Micheletti, says , “We can’t allow that this government take ...

Democratic vocation

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Israel claims to be building within the settlements only for "normal life." (Has anyone noticed if American Likudniks have picked...