US Flip-Flops on Honduras Vote

Hondurans voted yesterday in a contentious election that
followed last June's coup. The United States has praised the election, despite condemning the coup and in the face of reports of election fraud. What is behind the U.S. flip-flop? Will the Obama Administration recognize Porfirio Lobo as the next president of Honduras?

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• Honduras
• coup
• latin america
• hillary clinton
• Barack Obama Thomas Shannon
• roberto micheletti
• manuel zelaya
• Wayne Madsen Dina Gusovsky
• RT

[llshamelessll]

obama didnt do as he said....has he ever.

obama is a piece of shite

[LeGioNoFZioN]

thanks for putting the truth out there

[julioaguilarc]

@llshamelessll I Agree!!

[SamuelCyrus]

Yeah. Enforcing the Honduran Constrituition violates the U.S. view of their power grab shared with all of the world dictators. They must LOVE what Ortega is doing in Nicaragua. As to 'wealthy landowners' (et al), why would people rather work for the private sector when they can work for all knowing, all seeing, all powerful governments. Has NPR opened an office there yet? Ooops too late. Maybe Nicaragua. Cheers!

[Oskarft]

Thank you, same happened in Honduras where the pirating of public funds became such obvious that cash was withdrawn from central bank in construction carts. Im not agains helping the poor, im against leaders that preach this BUT ACT the other way and their supporters seem to turn a blind eye towards their corruption just because they present themselves as messiahs'

[JoseThePhd]

@Oskarft, The amount of money amassed by the new oligarchs in Venezuela is amazing. Adam Chavez, Hugo Chavez's brother is now a known Oil Mogul in Nicaragua (has a PERSONAL majority stake in one of the largest Nicaraguan Oil Businesses). Many of Chavez's strongmen have their money in Panama, and Switzerland.

[mrshutter77]

Lastly please SHUT THE FUCK UP with you judgement of other democracies in other countries when you yourself arn't even LIVING IN A DEMOCRACY OR PRACTICING IT OR REALLY BELIEVE IN IT. YOU LIVE IN KLEPTOCRACY AND ACCEPT THAT. None of your presidents even come close to having the democratic credentials that my president Chavez has. 15 clean, free & fair direct vote elections all certified by the Carter Center & EU & UN as free & fair.

[mrshutter77]

Dumb ass pig skinned FOX SNOOZE watching mono-lingual mono-cultural stupid ignorant gringo,This is a military Junta government & anyone who's been 2 honduras engaged in real journalism not hotel journalism will tell you, watch "fault lines" & find out illiterate.Candidates that didn't support the coup weren't allowed 2 participate.There was no violation of an Military dictatorship constitution when he called for non-binding REF 2 C if the people wanted the constitution changed Dummy!

[mrshutter77]

You do your own research RCTV: engineered and committed a Coup D Etad agasit a democractically electd gov't. In any democracy any TV station carrying out a Coup will be shut down inmediately. But RCTV is still on the air on Cable spewing out their lies and garbage and immitating FOX SNOOZE your channel. And all Chavez elections have been observed by all international monitors and free & fair, unlike presidents Selcted in your KLEPTOCRACY where the average man has no voice

[mrshutter77]

Why don't you make up you mind pig skinned gringo! Don't tell people you form Honduras when you really not! Don't fuckin Judge the democracies of other countries when your own country is a KLEPTOCRACY that never allows legitimate international monitors to monitor it's elections, and fraud is widescale in your KLEPTOCRACY.

[Oskarft]

First make up your mind, Am I a citizen from spain or united states? second the only elections famous for their fraud lately have been Nicaraguas and Irans. And the last elections at Venezuela were a joke, the all powerfull president runs for president when he controls the courts, the congress, the countries funds and media permits (those who dare disent are closed down: research RCTV)

[Oskarft]

Really? Zelaya has clearly made known by his actions that he is a person you can not count on for keeping his word. He changes his stance according to his needs of the moment. You obviuosly are ignorant of how our government is structured. The president is commander in chief and the defense minister is a civilian. The armed forces are subordinated to civilian power. Zelaya lost that power when he and only himself, abdicated to the presidency by violating a now famous constitutional article...