OAS suspends Honduras membership!
WASHINGTON (PNN) - July 5, 2009 - The Organization of American States suspended the Honduran government from the group after the military arrested and removed President Manuel Zelaya from office June 28.
Diplomats from across Latin America, including Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, traveled to Washington for the emergency OAS session. The decision paves the way for sanctions against the Central American nation, OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza said.
However, it was plain to all attending that this “emergency OAS session” was in reality a pulpit for the United States to propagandize the lawful removal of the former criminal president of Honduras.
Zelaya, speaking at the meeting, said the Honduran military has “shed blood” on streets, and he must return to restore peace. The Washington-based OAS is a forum for countries of the Western Hemisphere that discusses issues of democracy, human rights and poverty, according to the organization’s web site.
“We will arrive at the international airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with several presidents and members of international organizations,” Zelaya said yesterday in remarks broadcast on Telesur, a Venezuelan government-owned network.
The Honduran government brought to power in the coup sought to lessen the importance of today’s meeting by earlier saying it was withdrawing from the regional body first.
“The OAS is a political organization, not a court, and it can’t judge us,” interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti wrote in a public letter to Insulza on July 3. “We repudiate the OAS’s attempt to impose measures unilaterally.”
Ed. Note: Be sure to read the true timeline about how the ouster of President Zelaya actually happened. He was first censured by the Honduran Congress, ruled against by the Supreme Administrative Tribunal, and impeached by the Honduran Legislature, before the military forced him out of office. He is a branded criminal who is not being allowed to return to Honduras, which is why the runway was blocked.
Diplomats from across Latin America, including Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, traveled to Washington for the emergency OAS session. The decision paves the way for sanctions against the Central American nation, OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza said.
However, it was plain to all attending that this “emergency OAS session” was in reality a pulpit for the United States to propagandize the lawful removal of the former criminal president of Honduras.
Zelaya, speaking at the meeting, said the Honduran military has “shed blood” on streets, and he must return to restore peace. The Washington-based OAS is a forum for countries of the Western Hemisphere that discusses issues of democracy, human rights and poverty, according to the organization’s web site.
“We will arrive at the international airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with several presidents and members of international organizations,” Zelaya said yesterday in remarks broadcast on Telesur, a Venezuelan government-owned network.
The Honduran government brought to power in the coup sought to lessen the importance of today’s meeting by earlier saying it was withdrawing from the regional body first.
“The OAS is a political organization, not a court, and it can’t judge us,” interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti wrote in a public letter to Insulza on July 3. “We repudiate the OAS’s attempt to impose measures unilaterally.”
Ed. Note: Be sure to read the true timeline about how the ouster of President Zelaya actually happened. He was first censured by the Honduran Congress, ruled against by the Supreme Administrative Tribunal, and impeached by the Honduran Legislature, before the military forced him out of office. He is a branded criminal who is not being allowed to return to Honduras, which is why the runway was blocked.
