Hewitt Blog

With champion-of-freedom President Obama lining up alongside the OAS and the EU against the country's desire for self-determination, little ol' Honduras had a long road ahead to make it through November elections and onward without some major capitulation.  It seems as though Zalaya may be restored to power after the elections, which would place him in office as a titular, lame duck president.  Yesterday, Interim  (and constitutionally legal) President Roberto Micheletti said he was ready to sign the agreement to resolve Honduras' political crisis.  The same Congress that voted to remove Zalaya will have to approve the agreement, part of which will be Micheletti's requests that aid be restored and sanctions be lifted - most especially by America.


Ed Morrisey has been all over this, while I've been mostly hunkered down in the studio.  One thing I did notice the other day was that Micheletti's nephew, who went missing last Friday, was murdered, execution-style, by unknown killers... and, as Radio France put it, "In an unrelated incident, unidentified attackers shot and killed a colonel in Tegucigalpa on Sunday." Colonel Concepcion Jimenez was shot to death outside his home.  Now, far be it from me to claim knowledge that these murders were intimidations by narco-trafficing criminals sympathetic to the Zalaya/Chavez side of the fence, but it leaves a bad taste in one's mouth, doesn't it?  It's sort of like boxing.  Do we know that major fights are occasionally fixed?  Well, no...it's just that, you know, tons of money is made and lost gambling on the outcomes, and that's mostly handled by casinos in a town that may or may not have had strong Mob ties over the years...

Here's hoping the world watches more closely the second time Zalaya takes office, should this come to pass.