You’re probably not as interested in the Honduras thing as I am, but I spent time in the region and it’s hard to avoid this story. One of our readers who lives in Panama sent me this article from the English language Panama Guide.com and it gives a lot of background from the perspective of someone who lives in Honduras. It’s a long article, but I learned things I hadn’t known. For example;
Yeah, it sounds like Obama is coming down on the wrong side of this and The Washington Examiner calls him out. Even In the Washington Post, Alvaro Vargas Llosa writes “Honduras’s Coup Is President Zelaya’s Fault“.
The new Honduran government is resisting international pressure. The Obama Administration has suspended military relations with Honduras. But the best English language information on this comes from Fausta’s Blog. That Puerto Rican firecracker has been translating Spanish wire news since Sunday morning. Most of her links can be found at her “Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean“.