Sol Celeste is a song by The Ted Williams Show, a band I joined about a year ago. The video footage was shot by Javier Tovar, of Monterrey, and by NASA. Enjoy!

I am deeply dissapointed that Mexican President Calderón is siding with Zelaya, who didn’t hesitate to use his podium to call Micheletti’s goverment a repressive dictatorship. He said that the Honduran government had created laws that had removed Constitutional rights, and created a state of siege in “many regions of the country in a permanent form, that they are searching home without judicial orders…”

Am I surprised to discover that it was Krupskaia Alis, a former memeber of Daniel Ortega’s government, who made this report?

I’ve been fighting in the internet with comments from leftists who call Micheletti’s government a dictatorship. This is the definition, according to the Oxford English Dictionary:

dictator |ˈdikˌtātər|
noun

1. a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force.
• a person who tells people what to do in an autocratic way or who determines behavior in a particular sphere : the prewar era was a period whose apple-cheeked dictator was Doris Day.
• (in ancient Rome) a chief magistrate with absolute power, appointed in an emergency.

Why doesn’t anyone mention that Cuba is run by a dictator, or Venezuela?

Venezuelan news source El Universal has reported that Manuel Zelaya said today, during his visit to Mexico, that he will support the San Jose Accord if, and only if, he is restored to power. The San Jose Accord is the second proposal Oscar Arias presented in the Costa Rica talks. It contains a clause that would force Zelaya to drop his constitutional assembly project, or nullify the entire agreement. His delegation, led by Rixi Moncada, had refused to even consider the accord when it was read to them, and simply restated that the dialogues had failed days earlier.

Zelaya could say this, because at this moment, Micheletti is saying that he will never accept Zelaya’s return as president. But The New York Times published an article last week, that reported Micheletti saying exactly the opposite of this. This view apparently came from Micheletti’s aides. It would have been a masterstroke of strategy, in my opinion for Micheletti to support the accord.

Both opponents have only toyed with moving from their staunch positions. I doubt Zelaya will really want to be back without the guarantee of a constitutional assembly project. Micheletti will not accept Zelaya as president, but only as a citizen, precisely because he doesn’t trust him to drop the constitutional assembly project, and because he will probably start a vendetta against the Honduran congress and supreme court, his enemies, the moment he returns.

Chávez has not mentioned this yet, but he won’t say anything positive about the San Jose accord this time either. He is sure to say something though, he can never stay silent.

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