Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Why Is US State Department Hiding Its Analysis Of Honduras?

Jim DeMint is a Republican senator from South Carolina and is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He just got back from a fact-finding trip to Honduras. He writes in the Wall Street Journal:
In a day packed with meetings, we met only one person in Honduras who opposed Mr. Zelaya's ouster, who wishes his return, and who mystifyingly rejects the legitimacy of the November elections: U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens.
And this from the Cato Institute:
In the interest of democracy and transparency, the State Department should immediately release its legal report. Maybe then we (which includes much of the hemisphere) will be less mystified about what is driving Washington policy toward Honduras. Or at least we’ll have a better insight on the administration’s understanding of democracy.
Virtually the entire world understands that what happened in Honduras was not a coup, it was the lawful exercise of Honduras' democratic constutution. That is, the entire world except the Obama administration.

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