Reply #19: I read last night that Zelaya gets only 45 seconds on phone calls before the Junta cuts his

[Peace Patriot]

phone transmission. So imagine Zelaya trying to convey his position to reporters, or explain complexities to his ALBA rep in Bolivia...

MEL: Hello, Patricia, how was your flight, and how's Evo...?

PATRICIA: Flight, fine. Evo says hello. ...buzz, buzz...

MEL: Hello? Can't hear you...talks...disrespectful...but...

PATRICIA: What was that? ... buzz, buzz...click.

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This may explain why there are contradictory reports--for instance, one article says Zelaya called the idea of Congress deciding on his presidency "disrespectful," and other articles asserted that it is HIS position that Congress should decide (as opposed to the Supreme Court deciding). Plus, corpo/fascist reporters deliberately getting things wrong, plus the golpistas having all the time in the world to talk to each other and to reporters (and to John Negroponte and James Baker).

As a result, I don't know what Zelaya's negotiating position IS, do you? Did he agree to congress deciding on his presidency? Things are murky, for sure. But then the President of the country is sleeping on an air mattress every night, and working amidst the mayhem of cramped quarters--with a hundred people or so in an embassy that is short on supplies and food (as EFerrari pointed out, even the national soccer team captain's gift of a team t-shirt had to be smuggled in to Zelaya)--and having 45 second phone conversations with key advisers and news reporters.

This will all be the stuff of legend some day. But, for now, it is just infuriating that the fate of Honduran democracy has been so obscured by the forces of evil.