Surrounded by countries ruled by communist strongmen supported by the Obama administration, Honduras is bravely struggling to maintain its constitutional sovereignty.
On Sunday (July 19), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Honduran President, Roberto Micheletti from New Delhi, to strongly encourage the president to permit ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya to return to power. She warned him that th
e “consequences” would be that the relationship between Honduras and the United States could suffer, if he did not relent and allow Zelaya to return.In his first comments since Secretary Clinton’s warning, President Micheletti responded, in a press conference Monday, that the Honduran government would not countenance the imposition by any country of the restoration of Jose Manuel Zelaya to president of Honduras, according to “El Heraldo,” one of Honduras’ online and print news outlets.
“We are firmly against the imposition that they want to make, that any country in the world wants to make here. We must be respected. We ask no more than that the people of the world listen to us,” the president said.
Speaking of the negotiations going on in Costa Rica between the Michelletti government and former president Zelaya, being moderated by Costa Rican president Oscar Arias, Micheletti said: “we are making every effort to assure that the discussions (in Costa Rica) end in a positive way, short of the return of that one who broke the Constitution of the Republic (of Honduras), not once but many times” referring to deposed president Zelaya.
President Micheletti also asked that human rights groups should go to Honduras to see that the country is “living in peace,” adding that Hondurans are not “going around with rocks and sticks as happened last Saturday in Tocoa and Colón, where followers of Manuel Zelaya assaulted people at a peace rally.”
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