Honduras says Nicaragua has troops moving on border
Source: Reuters
TEGUCIGALPA, July 5 (Reuters) - Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti said on Sunday Nicaraguan troops were moving to the mutual frontier and urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to respect Honduran sovereignty.

He gave no further details about troop movements in Nicaragua which shares a border with Honduras to the southeast of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa.

His comments came as ousted President Manuel Zelaya attempted to fly home a week after he was ousted in a coup. Zelaya is a left-wing ally of Ortega and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.

The interim government said it had contacted the Organization of American States to express its willingness to enter dialogue. The OAS earlier on Sunday suspended Honduras for refusing to reinstate Zelaya. (Reporting by Patrick Markey)

Do You Feel Lucky, Hugo? Well, do ya, punk?''

Goulet:

you are too funny!! you call hugo a punk from the basement....hahahah! Just like the brave guy you are, who has to wait for that terrible dictator to die to visit his grave!!!

that would be the logical time to visit someones grave glimm dont you think before you write this stuff

hey fredd here is a video you should see:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3739500579629840148

so you won't give an opinion based on your obssesion against lefty governants in latin america

!el problema no es el sistema sino las oportunidades para las personas!

i hope you see the video and give your opinion about it

because of your recents comments about the honduran coup I've some happiness in your comments about it, well Fredd that's your kind of fanatics about against non american-aligned presidents. stop that fanatism and face the facts.

Do You Feel Lucky, Hugo? Well, do ya, punk?''

Do You Feel Lucky, Hugo? Well, do ya, punk?''
07-06-2009 17:20
Do You Feel Lucky, Hugo?

By Gwynne Dyer

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has declared that any attack on his country's embassy in Honduras will lead to war between the two nations, and I can't help wishing that the Hondurans would call his bluff. The Venezeluan blowhard is getting tiresome.

In the first of the ``Dirty Harry'' movies, 30 years ago, Clint Eastwood achieved immortality with a single line. Pointing a very large pistol at an evil-doer (as George W. Bush might have put it), he addresses the miscreant, who is thinking about reaching for his own gun, as follows: ``You've got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?''

Hugo Chavez is more a well-meaning idiot than an evildoer, but the question is the same: will he really go for his gun? The answer is no. He's not a complete idiot, and his threats to attack other Latin American countries whose behavior offends him (the most recent was Colombia, last year) always fade away after a while.

What provoked Chavez's threat was the removal of the president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, who had become Chavez's close ally. Zelaya was arrested by the Honduran military, bundled into a plane and flown to Costa Rica on June 28.

Elected to a single term as president in 2006, Zelaya astonished friend and foe alike by turning out to be not the center-right, business-friendly politician he had seemed.

Instead, he began moving steadily to the left in his domestic policies, and linked Honduras diplomatically with the other socialist governments in Latin America.

There is no doubt that he caused deep annoyance to the conservative elite who have traditionally dominated Honduran affairs, but they made no move to overthrow him. Why bother? The constitution limits Honduran presidents to one four-year term in office, and Zelaya's term comes to an end next January.

No other leftist candidate was likely to win the presidential election that is due in November: recent opinion polls suggested that Zelaya's support nationally is down to around 30 percent.

Even Zelaya's own party was unlikely to nominate another leftist as his successor, and many of its members no longer supported him. So all the major political forces were content to wait for the clock to run out on him ? until he started trying to change the constitution.

Zelaya's bright idea was to end the one-term limit so he could run for president again himself. It's exactly the same tactic that Chavez has used in Venezuela to prolong his rule indefinitely (he now talks about being in power until 2030), and Zelaya believed, rightly or wrongly, that he could make it work for him in Honduras. So he set about organizing a referendum on the subject. It was scheduled for the last Sunday of June.

Alas, the president of Honduras does not have the right to organize a referendum all by himself, and the country's Supreme Court ordered him to stop. Congress also condemned the maneuver, but Zelaya plowed ahead regardless.

When the army, obedient to the Supreme Court's orders, refused to help Zelaya run the referendum, he fired the army's commanding general and got his own party activists to distribute the ballot boxes.

At that point, Congress voted to remove Zelaya because of his ``repeated violations of the constitution and the law and disregard of orders and judgments of the institutions,'' and the Supreme Court ordered the army to intervene and arrest the president.

It was a mistake to put him on a plane bound for Costa Rica, as that made it look like a traditional Central American coup, but, apart from that, everything was done within the law.

The speaker of the Congress, Roberto Micheletti, who has taken over until the November elections, insists that he has become interim president ``as the result of an absolutely legal transition process.''

Chavez and his Bolivian, Ecuadorian, Nicaraguan and Cuban allies claim it's a military coup, and insist that the United States is behind it.

Washington, which wasn't paying much attention until June 28, has been bounced into backing Zelaya too, as has the Organization of American States, whose secretary-general, Jose Miguel Insulza, has promised to accompany Zelaya in a grand return to Honduras.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has condemned the events in Honduras as a coup, and for all we know she might accompany Zelaya too.

If Chavez decided to go along too, they would have enough people for a game of celebrity bridge, but all this posturing won't change anything.

It might be different if the next Honduran election were years away and there were time for diplomatic and economic pressures to wear the legitimate Honduran authorities down, but it's only five months until Nov. 29.

So long as that election is conducted properly, other countries will have no grounds to reject its outcome ? and Zelaya is constitutionally barred from running again.

Unless Chavez actually attacks Honduras, that is, but it is a long way from Venezuela and Chavez's forces are not really equipped or trained for amphibious assaults or long-range air-drops. You can almost hear the Honduran soldiers muttering, ``Go ahead, make my day.'

you are a riot !! Let me advise i tutored classes of symbolic logic.. so there is advanced logic there....

but I'll spell it out to you.....

instead of having to wait till someone dies...you could be the REASON he is in the grave.... but you have to courage and gonads annnnd usually tthe people's support.... all of which you lack!!

for the people live longer in that horrid starving country than most of Latin America!

think before you write!

poor glimm when they said brains he thought they said trains and he missed his