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Caribbean-Latin America
Honduran interim leader says open to resigning
2009-07-16
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - Interim Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti says he has offered to step down as long as ousted President Manuel Zelaya isn't allowed to return to power. Micheletti says the resignation offer was presented by a Honduran delegation in the United States, presumably to the U.S. government.

Micheletti made the comments Wednesday to reporters. Micheletti says he is "willing to leave office if at some point that decision is needed to bring peace and tranquility to the country, but without any return, and I stress that, of former President Zelaya."
Bad move: it makes it look as if the government of Honduras was in the wrong, and it wasn't.
It was unclear if the U.S. government had received the proposal to end the standoff over the country's June 28 coup.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  Interim Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti was installed by the legislature and sworn in by the
Honduran Supreme Court.
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-07-16 23:54  

#4  The key to all of this is in the answers to two questions. Who installed him? Do they have the power to uninstall him? If he was installed by a constitutionally legal component of the government and they can discharge him then I'd say that Honduras is operating under law better than we are at the moment.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-07-16 14:49  

#3  Yeah, he meant to do that.

Pffft.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2009-07-16 14:46  

#2  May not be as bad as it seems, which isn't all that bad at all.

Credit to POTUS here if he keeps his Chicago cool. Let the critics (us) keep on him about hugging Hugo, but if he simply does nothing while the Hondurans issue press releases, they get their election, their new president, and their goverment back in short order.

Let's hope this was orchestrated with our input. I suspect we'll see if and when and. most importantly, HOW, Zelaya's return is handled. Anything other than unending defiance and open insurrection will be a success.

Again, we're calling Hugo (and Castro's) bluff, which shouldn't be hard.

This could be a very nice, but very small, plus for the current administration. And a huge gain for Honduras.

Si se Pueda!
Posted by: Phineth the Anonymous8743   2009-07-16 12:20  

#1  Meh, it makes him look like an interim president, which he is. He probably wants to get back to the legislature. They *are* running new elections, yes?
Posted by: Mitch H.   2009-07-16 11:12  

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