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By Cassandra Effect, July 20, 2009 7:36 pm

So the EU is going to withhold $90 Million and the US is withholding $20 Million.

The Honduran GDP is over $33 Billion in purchasing price parity and $13 Billion at the official exchange rate.

I am thinking they can handle a $100 Million pinch.

Zelaya – give it up – the world is only bleating your tune so they don’t look like they will uphold the people throwing off the yokes of the tyrant.  But they really won’t help you.  Well, – Maybe Chavez will….

Source:  CIA Factbook

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By Cassandra Effect, July 5, 2009 3:42 pm

Hugo Chavez lent ousted Honduran criminal President Zelaya a Venezuelan flagged jet in his attempt to fly back to Honduras, even after the Honduran government stated they would not allow him to land in the country.

This was a patent attempt to create a Casus Belli and give Chavez the excuse he would need to send Venezuelan and even Nicaraguan troops in to restore the ousted Zelaya.

After bravely stating the “Blood of Christ Sustains me,” Zelaya backed down and his plane diverted to El Salvador. 

The Honduran government bides its time with a statement offering to talk with the OAS – this is a play for time folks – Zelaya’s inertia will slow allowing the free people of Honduras to rid themselves of him through delay tactics with these lame world bodies.   From the Wall Street Journal:

We are waiting with open arms for any commission that wants to come,” said Deputy Foreign Minister Martha Lorena Alvarado de Casco. “The Republic of Honduras has told the OAS it is disposed to designate a commission to negotiate in good faith.”

Honduras’ influential Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez, the highest ranking Catholic Church official in the country, went on national television to urge the exiled president not to come back. “We think that a return to the country at this time could unleash a bloodbath in the country,” Cardinal Rodriguez said. “To this day, no Honduran has died. Please meditate because afterwards it would be too late.”

The prelate also criticized Mr. Zelaya, suggesting the Church was throwing its weight behind the provisional government. “The day of your swearing in, you clearly quoted the three commandments of the sacred law of God: Not to lie, not to steal, and not to kill,” said the Cardinal, who was seen as a leading candidate to succeed the late Pope John Paul II.

Even more disturbing, the Reuters is reporting that Zelaya will be returning to WASHINGTON for more “talks” if he is not allowed back into Honduras.  Why is Obama providing aid and comfort for a President who defies his country’s constitution and laws?  I will let you, Dear Reader, do the math one that one….

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By Cassandra Effect, June 29, 2009 8:06 pm

After missing seeing the Iranian protests as part of a larger issue and dithering in his responsiveness to that Freedom seeking people in that country, Obama misfires again – this time in Honduras.

Turns out that the Honuran army fullfilled its Constitutional duty this weekend in prohibiting their President Zelaya from subverting their very own constitution.  

That Mr. Zelaya acted as if he were above the law, there is no doubt. While Honduran law allows for a constitutional rewrite, the power to open that door does not lie with the president. A constituent assembly can only be called through a national referendum approved by its Congress.

But Mr. Zelaya declared the vote on his own and had Mr. Chávez ship him the necessary ballots from Venezuela. The Supreme Court ruled his referendum unconstitutional, and it instructed the military not to carry out the logistics of the vote as it normally would do.

The top military commander, Gen. Romeo Vásquez Velásquez, told the president that he would have to comply. Mr. Zelaya promptly fired him. The Supreme Court ordered him reinstated. Mr. Zelaya refused.

Calculating that some critical mass of Hondurans would take his side, the president decided he would run the referendum himself. So on Thursday he led a mob that broke into the military installation where the ballots from Venezuela were being stored and then had his supporters distribute them in defiance of the Supreme Court’s order.

The attorney general had already made clear that the referendum was illegal, and he further announced that he would prosecute anyone involved in carrying it out. Yesterday, Mr. Zelaya was arrested by the military and is now in exile in Costa Rica.

Read the whole Wall Street Journal op-ed HERE

Yes, as hard as it may be to believe, we have actually witnessed not a coup, but a South American country’s military acting with integrity and honor in preserving their peoples freedom.  When Hugo Chavez is quick to support exiled President, you KNOW who the “bad” guy is!

But somehow Obama just can’t bring himself to make a principled call – at first he was “deeply concerned.”  Now Secretary of State Clinton is “withholding any formal legal determination.” 

Its 3am – I don’t think EITHER ONE OF THEM will answer the phone!!!!

What can be so difficult here, or is Obama becoming concerned that a free people and their armed forces might not take any crap from a tinpot dictator?