At a guess, the coup leaders don't intend the upcoming election to be honest, and don't want a credible to voice in the presidency to try and make it honest, and to call it out authoritatively if it is not. Incidentally, the coup leaders don't seem under a lot pressure to me. The U.S. could put economic pressure on them that would return Zelaya tomorrow if it wanted to.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:28 PM, ken hanly<[email protected]> wrote: > I really do not understand why the coup leaders do not agree to the San Jose > Accords. After they receive amnesty and Zelaya power is almost completely > purged plus he will be replaced within a few months. > This is from Allvoices: > http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/3883387-honduras-micheletti-backs-down-agrees-to-accept-oas-delegation > > While agreeing to see the OAS delegation Micheletti says that Insulza can > only have observer status. Interesting that the coup government feels it can > set the terms of the meeting! Micheletti again said just recently that the > return of Zelaya is not negotiable. One wonders what purpose the meeting can > serve then since that is the whole purpose of negotiations from the first! > I expect that there has been a lot of pressure from the US and others for the > Honduran coup govt. to come to a negotiated solution along the lines of the > Arias accords. After all the coup leaders will have amnesty, the govt. > international recognition, and Zelaya will be a lame duck president with > reduced powers for a short period of time. It seems that the coup is more > interested in saving face, and slapping the U.S. and OAS in the face, than > accepting a solution which is in their own interests. > Given that the military has accepted an Arias type agreement and that the > Liberal party's presidential candidate has disowned the coup it would not be > surprising if I am finally right that an agreement will be reached soon. > However, so far I have had a tendency to be wrong on the issue! > > > > > > > > Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html > Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
