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OP-ED: How the US deepened the crisis in Honduras, By Eric Farnsworth, Christian Science Monitor, September 17, 2009

Couldn't agree more. This is a dumb, self-limiting move on the part of the Obama Administration. I expected smarter from Clinton.

Discrediting a free election beforehand serves no purpose whatsoever, and it closes the best escape hatch from the crisis.

(Via WPR Media Roundup)

Comments

[Petrer]

Those dishonest people who wanted Manuel Zelaya to continue the authoritarian tendency that is plaguing too many parts of Latin Politics are such crooks.

The Neo-liberals will steal money, but they actually spark development (you build a factory, the labor produces money, and I get a cut etc...)...while the militant leftists will steal money, but are boneheaded on actually making it short of printing more money!...they also suppress and sometimes kill the sincere social democrats in their party....it's a shame, because the poor (and I mean poor, not US "poor") always suffer the most.

[Critt Jarvis]

I leave for Honduras tomorrow, presenting at Conference on Honduras. US Ambassador Hugo Llorens will speak, opening morning session. I precede USAID Mission Director William Brands on the program, day two.

The receptions back at the hotel ought to be interesting, you think? ;)

[Andrew in DC]

Obama's administration is handling this issue so tragically badly. They refused to give credence to a movement in Iran that was objecting to a true miscarriage of justice vis-a-vis the election; but in the meantime they make a bad situation of a legal transition of power remarkably worse by backing a man bent on conducting an illegal plebiscite - whose results were already "certified" on computers located in his office. (http://www.abc.es/20090717/internacional-iberoamerica/decomisan-varios-ordenadores-resultados-200907171753.html)

What are they going to do for an encore? Certify the Myanmar election? Validate Kim Jong Il's "legitimate" transfer of authority to his son? Maybe we can back the Belorussian dictatorship. Awesome.