Could it be? Shannon says that the restitution of Zelaya is fully in the hands of the Honduran Congress. Zelaya is frantically reacting. Honduran Civic groups are standing up to internationalist bullies in Tegucigalpa. Has the US, finally, shown her ally the minimum support it needs to survive the Venezuelan assault on its institutions? If [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Three Risks
November 5, 2009
Smart Diplomacy: Killing Democratic Institutions
November 3, 2009
The latest US “smart” diplomacy celebrated in the press is in fact the cowardly abandonment of Honduran institutions to the tender mercies of her enemies. What would have been an electoral process to strengthen those institutions will now almost certainly weaken them. Consider, In the absence of this deal, the local institutions were on track [...]
