As thousands of Honduran citizens peacefully blockaded the central highways of their nation yesterday, bringing its commerce under a coup regime to a halt, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met in Washington with her Canadian and Mexican counterparts.
At a joint appearance for the press with Canadian Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon and Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Clinton’s prepared remarks included this paragraph on Honduras:
“We discussed a range of global issues that affect us as well as closer to home; particularly the political crisis in Honduras. We reaffirmed our commitment to restore constitutional and democratic order, and underscored our support for the dialogue process that was started by President Arias. We support a peaceful, negotiated resolution and urge other countries to play a positive role in achieving that outcome, and to refrain from any actions that could lead to violence.”
Had the Secretary urged all to “refrain from acts of violence,” that would have been standard boilerplate diplo-speak. But she twisted the concept when she said, “refrain from any actions that could lead to violence.”
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http://narcosphere.narconews.com/thefield/secretary-clinton-doesn%E2%80%99t-get-power-nonviolence-honduras Al Giordano at Narco News has so far defended the Obama administration actions. But as you can tell from this article he is starting to get pissed. The left in this country will not under any circumstances accept the RW coup in Honduras. So far it's just Clinton screwing up. But if things don't change pretty soon Obama's going to get blamed too. It's not just Honduras. Now we have the moving of the military base in Ecuador to Colombia. Uribe being the number one human rights violator in South America?
For too long Washington has taken for granted American's ignorance in all things Latin American. But those days are over. This situation will go down in history as the first really really big mistake the Obama administration makes.
I'd like to say they better fix this but it's looking like it's already to late. The arrogance of this policy is staggering and I can't see how that can be forgotten. Also, when Uribe was here he was promised by Obama that the Colombian FTA was still on the table. That was really really really STOOPID! There will be HELL to pay the instant that FTA hits the floor!
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