“Punish them with an Embargo!”
Zelaya's foreign minister, Patricia Rodas, echoing a demand from Chavez, called on Washington to apply "effective" economic and political sanctions against the (Honduran) interim government, such as blocking financial transfers and reserves, and suspending U.S. visas for its members.
Hey WAIT-A-MINUTE! but...but ...but I thought unfettered commerce, dialogue, unrestricted travel, an avalanche of remittances...... were the magical cure for any and all diplomatic misunderstandings between the U.S. and Latin American nations??...
I coulda sworn I've heard that such Yankee bullying as prescribed above is "archaic, mean-spirited and counterproductive..."hurting only the people"
And won't this give Micheletti the perfect alibi?--to blame Yankee intransigence, intolerance and spite, for Honduras' economic failures?
Gosh! Let's wake up, people!
Let's stop kow-towing to these corrupt and filthy-rich Honduran exiles (Zelaya is a multi-millionaire implicated in drug-trafficking) with such influence with the U.S. State Dept. who have been feting him in Washington D.C. lately.
We will diligently search the MSM for quotes from their learned Latin American "Experts" regarding their reaction to this advocacy by corrupt Latin American oligarchic exiles advocating this "clearly failed" policy, to this "turning back of the clock," to such retrograde "gunboat diplomacy," so they can recoup their ill-gotten goods!!
No, no no. There you go again. Typical "retrograde, intolerant, Batistiano, mafioso, Miami Banana Republican" [or in your case, Louisianan Banana Republican] thinking!!!
Embargoes are good only for "right-winged" countries like Haiti under Cedras, Apartheid South Africa, Pinochet's Chile, Franco's Spain, etc... NOT FOR CUBA.
It's a sublime thing that a "truly repellent" Miami Cuban can't be expected to understand. Only New York Times editorialists, TV pundits and anchors, Hollywood types and Congressmen like Charles Rangel and Jose Serrano are privileged enough to comprehend.
I suppose it's a good thing that, when it comes to Cuba, I'm totally used to massive, pervasive, unrelenting hypocrisy from practically all quarters. Otherwise, I might have to be on medication to prevent chronic vomiting.