Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya will return to talks only if his rivals agree to reinstate him first, his advisers say. That's the way leftists negotiate: they'll hold talks with you if you concede their point first.
What's mine is mine, now let's talk about what's yours ...
The Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday called for a push to restart dialogue as a solution to the crisis appeared ever more distant, with both sides stuck on the issue of Zelaya's return to office before the elections next month.
How about if Manny leaves for Fiji or Samoa or someplace?
Stalled talks this week represent the latest setback since the June 28 military-backed coup, which took place following a dispute over Zelaya's plans to change the constitution. Critics saw the move as a bid to extend term limits.
They prob'ly saw it that way because the plans to change the constitution involved removing the term limits that kept Manny from proclaiming himself caudillo, like his friend Hugo did.
"Zelaya will return to dialogue if it is to sign his restitution," his adviser Rasel Tome told AFP.
That's the diffo between "dialogue" and "capitulation," isn't it?
The de facto regime, led by Roberto Micheletti, wants to push ahead with the presidential polls set for November 29 to resolve the crisis, as Zelaya remains holed up in the Brazilian embassy. Zelaya's term expires in January.
Not only is the regime "de facto," it's "de jure."
Meanwhile, in an increasingly polarized Honduras, Zelaya's supporters planned new protests, despite a continued clampdown after the lifting of curbs on civil liberties imposed by the de facto regime, union leader Juan Barahona told AFP on Thursday.
That's the whole intention, isn't it? And I'll betcha there's lotsa Venezuelan cash funding it...
Zelaya's ouster was backed by the country's courts, Congress and business leaders, and came after he swerved to the left and aligned himself with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
... and tried to emulate Hugo by grabbing permanent power.