Honduras teeters on violence

Yesterday, de facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti offered to step down to keep the peace there (according to New America Media);

President Roberto Micheletti said Wednesday for the first time that he is prepared to step down if it will return peace to Honduras, but on the condition that ousted President Manuel Zelaya does not return to office, reports La Opinión. Meanwhile, the government Wednesday night re-instituted a curfew that it had lifted over the weekend in an attempt to quell national unrest.

Compare that to Manuel Zelaya’s threat to conduct “the final battle” for his return to power in the Central American nation;

Patricia Rodas, foreign minister of Zelaya’s toppled government, says Zelaya is en route to Honduras but she did not provide details as to where he plans to set up the alternative seat of government. Zelaya himself will announce it when he deems appropriate.

One is willing to resolve the situation while the other side is willing to spill Honduran blood. Nicaraguans are against Daniel Ortega‘s attempts to interfere in their neighbor’s politics.

Fidel Castro demands that the US withdraw their troops from Honduras;

“The only correct decision at this moment is to demand the U.S. authorities stop interfering and providing military assistance to coup leaders and withdraw their troops from Honduras,” Cuban media reported citing Castro as saying in his article.

He added that “the civil coup in Honduras has created a really complicated situation in Latin America, which cannot be resolved by traps, cunning and lies.”

“New details of U.S. involvement [in the coup] emerge daily and it [the coup] will result in a broad resonance across the whole Latin America,” the 82-year-old former Cuban leader said.

US involvement in the coup was to prevent it for over a week, until Hondurans decided to stop listening. Zelaya admitted as much the first week. The only “new details” are coming from motor-mouth dictator Hugo Chavez (who also admits to daily cocaine use). You’d think Castro would know better since there have been thousands of American troops stationed at Guantanamo,Cuba for nearly a century with no adverse effect on Cuba’s government.

Category: Foreign Policy, Hugo Chavez, Usual Suspects