QuoteObama Has the Power and Responsibility to Help Restore Democracy in Honduras Unquote
What a huge shift from September 11 1973 when Allende was deposed in Chile or April 11 2002 when Chavez was overthrown! Sukla From: Sayan Bhattacharyya <ok.president+f...@gmail.com<ok.president%2bf...@gmail.com> > To: FOIL <foi...@insaf.net> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:56:29 -0400 Subject: [foil] Roberto Lovato: "Obama Has the Power and Responsibility to Help Restore Democracy in Honduras" Obama Has the Power and Responsibility to Help Restore Democracy in Honduras by Roberto Lovato Full: < http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roberto-lovato/obama-has-the-power-and-r_b_222170.html > [Roberto Lovato is a New York-based contributing Associate Editor with New America Media and a frequent contributor to The Nation Magazine. He's also written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, Der Spiegel, the San Francisco Chronicle, and other national and international media outlets. He has also appeared as a commentator in the New York Times, Washington Post and Le Monde and on English and Spanish language network news shows on Univision, CNN, PBS, Al Jazeera and other outlets. Lovato is the former Executive Director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), the largest immigrant rights organization in the country. ] Click here to send a message to President Barack Obama: < http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/727/t/3823/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27531 > [...] Recent declarations by the Administration -- expressions of "concern" by the President and statements by Secretary of State Clinton recognizing Zelaya as the only legitimate, elected leader of Honduras -- appear to indicate preliminary disapproval of the putsch. Yet, the even more unequivocal statements of condemnation from U.N. President Miguel D'Escoto, the Organization of American States, the European Union, and the Presidents of Argentina, Costa Rica and many other governments raise greatly the bar of expectation before the Obama Administration. [...] Beyond immediate calls to continue demanding that Zelaya and democratic order be reinstated, protesters in Honduras, Latin America and across the United States will also pressure the Obama Administration to take a number of tougher measures including: cutting off of U.S. military aid, demanding that Hondurans and others kidnapped, jailed and detained be released and accounted for immediately, bringing Vasquez and coup leaders to justice, investigating what U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Hugo Llorens, did or didn't know about the coup. [...] Latin American skepticism of U.S. intentions is not unfounded. [...] Click here to send a message to President Barack Obama: < http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/727/t/3823/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27531 > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to greenyouth@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
