President Obama has been vacillating and putting-off issuing a clear and definite response to the Honduran question, but now it appears that his time is up and he has been called to clarify his administrations official position regarding that ongoing crisis.
If we take a moment to stop and consider who the principle players are that we’re dealing with, it becomes quite evident that President Obama will have to make the choice whether to isolate Honduras, or put a stop to Hugo Chavez and his blatant meddling in the internal affairs of the Honduran nation.
Venezuelan intervention is clear when we see Manuel Zelaya’s failed attempt to return to Honduras in a Venezuelan licensed airplane, piloted by a Venezuelan, and accompanied by the Sandinista OAS representative, Manuel D’Escoto, and a circus of Hugo Chavez ALBA “democratic” South American presidents. Considering the terrible possibilities, we must all complement the Honduran authorities for having frustrated the sinister Chavez/Zelaya plot, to instigate a blood bath as forecast by Cardinal Masariaga.
Again, we must also congratulate Salvadoran president, Mauricio Funes for the calm, compassionate and politically moderate and intelligent welcome he offered these surprise visitors to El Salvador after their denied landing at Toncontin.
President Funes received Zelaya and the foreign dignitaries with protocol and with non committal politeness. So far in his mandate, President Funes has not disappointed the Salvadoran electorate, and to the contrary he has shown a genuine humanity and political maturity so indispensable in any great leader. Mauricio is without doubt the correct choice that El Salvador needed at this moment of hemispheric turmoil and economic insecurity.
The chararrote Hugo Chavez has the objective of destabilizing Latin American democracies, without anyone actually attacking him or Venezuela. To the contrary, the U.S. continues to be his trading partner and principle importer of Venezuelan oil.
Hugo Chavez seems driven to intervene in Honduras and create another mini Daniel Ortega, and if it wasn’t Honduras it would be somewhere else. The man is either insane or bipolar.
The danger in all this is that Hugo Chavez urgently needs dead Hondurans in order to further advance his imperialist project.
The ball is now in President Obama’s court and he must act soon. Like it or not, the international isolation of Honduras only furthers the risk of violence and of the forecast blood bath that Chavez so desires.
It'll be interesting to see how Obama responds--
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