It’s no surprise that Hugo Chavez’s socialist state of Venezuela has fallen on hard times. They are well-deserved; Chavez had to work hard to achieve the decline in a nation that has rich natural resources on which to draw. The … Continue reading →
Obama has not given up practicing on Honduras, working on his techniques to destabilize it and support a leftist thug if at all possible. You got to hand it to him: he’s consistent. What appeared at the outset to be … Continue reading →
It has become impossible to dismiss the idea that the Obama administration has decided that Britain is no longer to be treated as our ally. A series of disses, beginning with but hardly limited to the return of a bust … Continue reading →
Honduras may get to choose its own leaders after all. The tag team of Obama and Chavez doesn’t seem to have been able to stop it from doing so, and Obama seems to have given up trying. [ADDENDUM: Porfirio Lobos, … Continue reading →
…starting to run out of other people’s money?
Continue reading →Could it be that Obama blinked? But if he finally has retreated from his former abominable position on Honduras, he’s kept awfully mum about it.
Continue reading →Fausta reports that Honduras has caved to Obama’s pressure and agreed to reinstate Chavez’s protege Zelaya in a power-sharing interim government. Apparently, Honduras got more than a taste of the Chicago Way, and it wasn’t very appetizing: El Heraldo (in … Continue reading →
Michael Totten makes a rare detour from Middle Eastern venues to write an insightful piece about US sanctions on Honduras. Totten points out what the Obama administration seems not to have even considered—the consequences of its threats: Sanctions are supposed … Continue reading →
We already knew that Zelaya was a Leftist with aspirations to follow the example of his buddy Chavez and usurp ever more power in his country. But until now we didn’t know that he was delusional. How else to explain … Continue reading →
Read his piece in today’s WaPo. Hope he can stay the course against the thugs in DC and elsewhere: We are, of course, disappointed with the position of the United States and the European Union, both longtime friends. We look … Continue reading →
See Fausta for more on Honduras, much more. And this editorial by Monica Showalter at IBD is must-reading on the topic of US policy towards Honduras, the reaction of other nations, and the likely consequences. In a completely unrelated affair, … Continue reading →
Obama cuts aid to Honduras in an attempt to blackmail the country into accepting Zelaya. Isn’t it interesting that our President comes down so hard on a country for merely attempting to assert its own constitution against a power grab … Continue reading →