I hope your paying attenion America ~ The Obama administration is supporting the Hondurian President that tried to take over the country and re-write the Hondurian constitution. Socialist's are thicker than water it seems

US revokes visas of 4 Honduran officials

Jul 28 04:50 PM US/Eastern
By MORGAN LEE and JUAN CARLOS LLORCA
Associated Press Writer

OCOTAL, Nicaragua (AP) - The U.S. government said Tuesday it has revoked the diplomatic visas of four Honduran officials, stepping up pressure on coup-installed leaders who insist they can resist international demands to restore the ousted president.
The U.S. State Department did not name the four, but a Honduran official said they included the Supreme Court magistrate who ordered the arrest of ousted President Manuel Zelda and the president of Honduras' Congress.


The State Department is also reviewing the visas of all officials serving under interim President Roberto Micheletti, department spokesman Ian Kelly said.

Micheletti's Deputy Foreign Minister Marta Lorena Alvarado said Supreme Court Justice Tomas Arita and Congressional President Jose Alfredo Saavedro were among those whose visas removed.

Arita signed the order for Zelaya's arrest several days before soldiers whisked him out of the country on June 28.

Alvarado insisted the decision would not have major consequences for Micheletti's government, which has rejected international demands to restore Zelaya despite the suspension of millions of dollars in U.S. and European development aid and the threat of further sanctions.

"It's part of the international community's incomprehension of what is happening in Honduras," Alvarado told The Associated Press. "It's not definitive and it will not have major consequences for the future of Honduras."

Zelaya, who earlier complained that international efforts to restore him were flagging, said the decision was "correct" and urged even tougher measures.

"We should keep insisting that the United States pressure the coup leaders more to give a clear demonstration of repudiation of the coup," Zelaya said from the Nicaraguan town of Ocotal, where he has parked his government-in-exile near the Honduran border, accompanied by hundreds of supporters.

The U.S. decision came on the one-month anniversary of the coup and at a time when international mediation efforts to reinstate Zelaya are deadlocked. The Honduran Supreme Court and Congress have spent a week mulling over a U.S.-backed agreement that would restore Zelaya and give amnesty to the coup leaders.

Kelly said the U.S. Embassy "is urging the Honduran Congress to send a strong signal of support" for the compromise proposed by mediator Oscar Arias, the Costa Rican president. Micheletti has repeatedly rejected any agreement that would return Zelaya, though he has promised to abide by any decision Congress and the Supreme Court make.

Former Honduran Ambassador Roberto Flores told The Associated Press on Monday that his credentials also have been removed. He was appointed by Zelaya but recognized the Micheletti government after the coup.

Flores, who is still in the United States, said he believed Zelaya's ouster was legal because the Supreme Court had ordered his arrest and Congress voted to remove him from office. However, the soldiers flew Zelaya out of the country instead of turning him over for prosecution, in a move that even Honduran military lawyers have said was illegal but necessary.

Zelaya has received support from nearly all foreign governments, which have condemned the coup and isolated the Micheletti government diplomatically.

Four clothing companies who manufacture products in Honduran factories—Nike, Inc., Adidas AG, Gap Inc. and Knights Apparel—released a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calling for the "restoration of democracy in Honduras."

The companies said they were "very concerned about the continuation of violence if this "dispute is not resolved immediately." In an e-mail sent to AP, Nike spokeswoman Kate Myers said the company had "no intention of canceling orders with contract factories in Honduras."

In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Foreign Minister Carlos Lopez clearly bet the interim government could outlast Zelaya until presidential elections scheduled for November. He said Zelaya, whose constitutionally mandated single term ends Jan. 27, might start to lose relevance as campaigning begins.

"There will be a totally different context and once the campaigns begin, the obsession with Mr. Zelaya will start fading," Lopez said.

He expressed a perhaps optimistic view that other nations will recognize the results of the election, scheduled for Nov. 29. Some nations have said they might not recognize a vote held under what they consider an illegitimate government that has cracked down on pro-Zelaya media.

"Of course it will be recognized. There is no sense in talking about it not being recognized," Lopez said.

Honduras' interim leaders have vowed to arrest Zelaya on four charges of violating the constitution if he sets foot in his homeland.

The charges stem from Zelaya ignoring a Supreme Court order and trying to hold a referendum asking Hondurans if they wanted a special assembly to rewrite the constitution. Many people felt he wanted to end the constitutional ban on anyone serving more than one term as president. Zelaya, a wealthy rancher who adopted a left-leaning populist agenda, denied it.

Juan Ramon Cruz, a 45-year-old school teacher who walked for 12 hours through the Honduran mountains to avoid military roadblocks on his way to Ocotal, vowed to stick out the protest, but hoped foreign governments would increase the pressure for a quick solution.

"He is the only president who has given to the poor. This is the crime that Manuel Zelaya has committed," Cruz said.

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Juan Carlos Llorca reported from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Associated Press writer Desmond Butler contributed to this report from Washington.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Loading comments... +15 Vote up Vote down remoh 76p · 2 hours ago

I never thought I'd live to see the day the US would stand in support of a communist dictator against those seeking justice and democracy. What is going on in our country? How can so many be blind to what is happening!!??
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+8 Vote up Vote down Reality_Check 69p · 2 hours ago

Obama is supporting the side of socialist dictators now.

Wonder when he will organize a vote in this country to let him re-write the US constitution as well.

Who needs a 2/3 vote in the House or Sentate - Obama can rewrite the constitution.

Obama smart. Obama very, very smart.

He help the poor. Obama help everybody, except Sara Palin and those evil people who watch Fox News.
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+7 Vote up Vote down Dencal26 65p · 2 hours ago

Obama ignores the Honduran Constitution. Why does he meddle in other nations business?
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+13 Vote up Vote down versionthirteen 63p · 2 hours ago

Is anyone really in any doubt the Communist in Chief is Anti-American?
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+5 Vote up Vote down Robert_NYC 78p · 2 hours ago

Great idea - one of the socialist leaders in South America gets ousted in a region where there are already too many socialist banana republics and we turn our backs.

Great leadership from the land of capitalism and the American way Barry!
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+4 Vote up Vote down BigMikeMIT -1p · 2 hours ago

Just what I expect from BO. To go against another countries constitution. They followed the law to the "T", and BO says let the usurper back in ... because I'm a usurper as well and we must stick together.
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+7 Vote up Vote down vabb 58p · 2 hours ago

The Obama administration has not yet met a dictatorship or communist goverment that it did not support. On the flip side they constantly piss off our allies like Britain, Canada, Germany etc. I can not think of a worse government for this country than this one, the Carter years included.
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+6 Vote up Vote down vemm 72p · 2 hours ago

This is unbelievable! Honduras, a democracy, acts in accordance with its own laws and Constitution and is pressured by our corrupt government to act unlawfully. My heart sheds tears for what has happened to our country.
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+5 Vote up Vote down Americaisbroke 56p · 2 hours ago

So.....Is the US government now backing leftist dictators, like Chavez now?? That's what this Zelaya guy wants to be!! That's why he tried to run "ROUGH-SHOD" over the Congress & Supreme Court of Honduras......To illegally change their Constitution so he could stay in power!!! What kind of B.S. is this from the State Dept?? I hope to hell Hondura's does NOT back down and says....FU to everyone, especially "OSLAMA"!!!
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+1 Vote up Vote down tdog123 49p · 2 hours ago

obamma the mess-I-ya is getting ready try try the same thing as Zelaya: No more presidential term limits?

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj1...
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+6 Vote up Vote down swathdiver 77p · 2 hours ago

America's Democrats have been supporting Communism and all manner of evil since at least the 1930s. Remember it was the Democrat Party that allowed Communists to run rampant through the Federal Government and its halls, adopting its ideology and using American might to further the aims of World Communism. Who really won WW2? Yalta, Tehran... who Lost China and turned Southeast Asia over to Communism? The Democrat Party. Wherever Evil rears its ugly head, you'll find American Democrats enabling it.
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+4 Vote up Vote down mglsite 1p · 2 hours ago

Why shouldn't this Government support a would be Dictator who doesn't follow their Constitution. Obongo is ignoring ours.
You don't think he will give up power in 2012 do you. We will have our own Dictator, so get ready boys and girls, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
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+3 Vote up Vote down 02Z06Vette 61p · 2 hours ago

Who would have ever thought a third world Latin American country standing stronger for the principles of democracy and freedom from oppression than the United States? What has the white hating, black Marxist American hating person done to this country turning it into a third world governmental joke?
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+4 Vote up Vote down pjcurtis 1p · 2 hours ago

I have been to Honduras and just had 2 missionaries from there on 7-26-09. They said that Zelaya's new constitution would have been a disaster to the groweth of Honduras. Banks nationalized, children drafted at 3 years of age into gov't centers of education, free enterprise outlawed, etc. CNN is totally lying (again).
Obama is showing his true colors here.
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+5 Vote up Vote down TX_Independent 39p · 2 hours ago

This is really unbelievable. We are being punitive against a country whose people are defending their constitution against a power hungry dictator.

We have really goofed up our Foreign Policy with this new administration.

To the folks in Honduras: Please realize that most all Americans support you. As a beacon for the rest of the world please stand strong against tyranny and defend your constitution. You are doing the right thing and WE the people of America support you. Disregard the ever changing policy by the Obama administration. They have stepped off the deep end and are no longer credible.
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+3 Vote up Vote down clarify 63p · 2 hours ago

Four clothing companies who manufacture products in Honduran factories—Nike, Inc., Adidas AG, Gap Inc. and Knights Apparel—released a letter addressed to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calling for the "restoration of democracy in Honduras."

There is democracy in Honduras. Zelaya was ousted by order of their Supreme court and the military simply carried out their order. THERE WAS NO COUP. The military isn't running the country is it.? There are elections scheduled, something Zelaya wasn't going to let happen and why he was charged for treason and thrown out. We are backing the wrong side I believe. Why???
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+5 Vote up Vote down tdog123 49p · 2 hours ago

I used to think the media was liberally biased. The Honduras situation has confirmed for me that the media are pure, paid, purveyors of propaganda and prevarications. Anyone that thinks otherwise is deluded. This also confirms how low-life our con-gress is. Stay strong people of Honduras, true Americans support you and your cause......even if our socialist presidente doesn't.
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+3 Vote up Vote down righthemisphere 62p · 1 hour ago

Obama = communist mofo Bet he wishes he could do the same here, change the constitution that is. Your country as you knew it is gone folks.
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+3 Vote up Vote down omnigym2 35p · 1 hour ago

Zelaya is a criminal. Leftists, socialists, Clintonistas, Obamaites and the other elitists are criminals also. Ergo their penchant for Zelaya. VIVA HONDURAS. Stand strong.
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+2 Vote up Vote down pdcarver 1p · 1 hour ago

Boy, this Obama administration makes me worried. We are going to have a lot of messes to clean up, and it is only 100 days.
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+5 Vote up Vote down jackcarter 1p · 1 hour ago

Who in the hell do we think we are? A country follows its own laws and ousts its president because he violated those laws thereby proving that they are a country of laws, not a country of men. Our president figures that he's a better judge of what's "right" than the people who adopted those laws, namely the people of Honduras, and insists that the law breaker be returned to office?

What kind of arrogance would you call that? Could you say that he acted "stupidly"?
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+3 Vote up Vote down Hojo 82p · 1 hour ago

After reading this article I have come to the conclusion that democrats are totally and completely f'ing worthless. I no longer respect any of their opinions (really the opinion of the TV). The D in democrat is for dumb (spoken by Dora the Explorer lol).
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+3 Vote up Vote down yippeekiyea 54p · 1 hour ago

Obama detests Democracy almost as much as he detests white Americans.
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+5 Vote up Vote down colbay 80p · 1 hour ago

Amazing. Has the entire world lost its marbles? It is INCOMPREHENSIBLE to me that this continues to be the narrative...

MSM/OBAMA: "There was a coup!"

REALITY: Zelaya, working with his friend Chavez (the guy they just today caught sending arms to FARC), attempted to install himself as President for Life. The rule of law, and democracy, won out, and he was legally booted. And oh- a search of his computer revealed he was already working to rig the illegal referendum he was attempting... In other words- he attempted a Chavez-style coup, and got stopped. AND WE'RE SUPPORTING HIM? AND THE 'ENTIRE WORLD' IS ON HIS SIDE? WTH IS GOING ON?
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+2 Vote up Vote down Skunky 51p · 1 hour ago

THERE WAS NO COUP!

ZerObama has yet again shown his true LACK of character...yet the Braindead Obamabot Zombies still
won't see.

What a disgrace for Honduras. Next Chairman MaObama will be gunning to deconstruct OUR constitution.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id ... _article=1