Diplomats in the U.S. and Costa Rica have called on rival sides in Honduras to enter a new chapter of negotiations.Both elected Honduran president Manuel Zelaya and de facto leader Roberto Micheletti need to be "patient" and renew discussions, said Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. Even though talks last week between the rival heads failed to reach a breakthrough, chief negotiator Arias emphasized that “it is not easy to get results in 24 hours."
The U.S. State Department agreed with Arias in remarks made by a spokesman today. "All parties in the talks should give this process some time. Don't set any artificial deadlines," Ian Kelly told reporters.
Arias and Kelly spoke out after Zelaya threatened Micheletti with an ultimatum yesterday: should future talks not restore him to power he “will proceed with other measures.” At the time he did not elaborate on the alternatives though he said today that Hondurans "have the right to insurrection" against the interim government.
Meanwhile, the mainstream press has been accused of falsifying the results of a recent poll to show that most Hondurans backed the June 27th coup against Zelaya. The Christian Science Monitor claimed that is not necessarily the case:
Did we get it wrong?Image- BBC News
Yes, and no. We inadvertently got only half of the survey, according to the only blogger (bloggingsbyboz.com) who seems to have figured out what happened.
Apparently, CID-Gallup asked two related questions in the poll…
The first question: Was President Zelaya removal justified? Forty-one percent of those surveyed said that the removal was justified, while 28 percent disagreed. Thirty-one percent did not know or did not answer.
La Prensa published only this first question and these figures. So did The Christian Science Monitor and various other outlets.
The second question in the poll was: Did those surveyed agree with the actions to remove him? This time, 46 percent said they disagreed, and 41 percent agreed. Some news organizations, such as the New York Times, published these figures.
Online Sources- Christian Science Monitor, BBC News, The Latin Americanist, Reuters, AFP, CBC, Huffington Post
2 comments:
You seem to be very Chavismo? Why defend Zelaya so? Obama has been to busy at the G8 Summit in Europe and courting Russia to worry about Honduras? He is only reacting since he has been criticized for how he has handled N. Korea / Iran / and supporting Palestine. It is a 'non-crucial' position if he is wrong if you look at his agenda. Read his press statement when the Iranian election results were announced...'I am deeply concerned.." and read his response to the Honduran issue....verbatim?
thanks for the link...
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