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The de facto regime installed by coup in Honduras has shown a penchant for fastidiousness as it worries about the guest list for upcoming talks with luminaries from the Organization of American States (OAS) "A" list. Talks were headed for the abyss when the junta led by former president of the legislature Roberto Micheletti objected to the inclusion of OAS Secretary-General Jose Miguel Insulza because he has openly advocated the return to the country and to power of exiled President Manuel Zelaya. This explanation soon gave way to other interpretations.
After a brief period of reconsideration, the junta came back with a modified plan: Insulza could come, but only as an observer, not as a delegation member. The civilian junta had already imposed a strict prohibition against any member of the party who represented an Alternativa Bolivariana para las Americas (ALBA) government. One of its initial rationales for the coup was that Zelaya, in joining first Petrocaribe and then ALBA, was handing over the country to Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, and the communists.
When the Hondurans relented on the Insulza question late in the evening Aug. 9, the finalists for the trip were Insulza as observer and the foreign ministers of Argentina, Canada, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic as members of the delegation.
According to reports, the aim of the talks was to coax the Micheletti people into accepting a plan elaborated by Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias that would permit Zelaya's return to a radically reduced presidency. This, despite junta representatives' rejection of the plan in two separate forms and saying repeatedly that any such return was nonnegotiable (see NotiCen,...
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