Best of luck to Mary Blue as she moves on to other interests!
Here’s the new mayor along with former mayor Al Sweeney.
Archive for November 4th, 2009
After the accord was worked out exPresident Zelaya and OAS Secretary General Insulza started talking about how the accord made it clear that Zelaya was to be reinstated.
The accord ACTUALLY just says that Congress will vote to determine if Zelaya will be reinstated.
That’s different. Waaaaay different. Yesterday I was beginning to feel that the pressure the Honduran Congress was under may be too much to handle. This is one tiny and poor country folks and the longer Zelaya is in the news, the more “hope” his measly bunch of followers have and hence they gain strength in the “support” from such statements as Insulza’s.
Honduran Congress cares about Honduras. What is BEST for their country. They have to looking at
will Zelaya shut up and go away?
will the rule of law count for something even after this backstep?
will international aid return?
will tourists return?
what IS best here?
Today LaGringa brings us the interpretation of a letter written by Vilma Morales, former President of the Supreme Court in Honduras to OAS Secretary General Insulza;
In the missive, the attorney Morales criticizes the comments emited by Sr. Insulza during an interview with a radio station in Chile, which was reported by various news media. During the interview, Insulza said that “the only peaceful exit (in Honduras) is to restore President Zelaya for the short time that is left in his presidency.”
Morales indicated that “We worry that these declarations could be considered an interference in a yet fragile process of resolution of crisis that is developing in our country. We consider furthermore that your comments are contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Accord Tegucigalpa-San José, which indicates textually that the National Congress has the last word to make a decision about the possible restitution of Sr. Zelaya to the presidency.”
Click on through for the interpretation but LaGringa has it right.
You go girl (Morales)!!!
May the Honduran Congress make the best decision possible for their country based on the items they need to consider and without threats from outsiders!
This quote made me laugh yesterday but the story has gotten hidden amongst all the election news.
You remember the other day when Clinton went rogue and suggested that some settlement expansion would be ok for peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis, right?
From the Arab News came this sentence:
During a photo-taking session with her Moroccan counterpart, Clinton was asked about the Arab reaction, and she responded by reading a written statement designed to counter skepticism about the Obama administration’s views on settlements.
“Successive American administrations of both parties have opposed Israel’s settlement policy,” she said. “That is absolutely a fact, and the Obama administration’s position on settlements is clear, unequivocal and it has not changed. As the president has said on many occasions, the United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements.”
