Target, by Jasper Johns, image by nostri-imago used with a C.C. license

A troubling chain email that I can’t, unfortunately, ignore, claims that the FARC is planning to murder both president-elect Porfirio Lobo and interim president Micheletti the moment Manuel Zelaya leaves the country, leaving a vacuum of power. Who knows who they plan to put there, Zelaya perhaps? This, like all chain emails, probably is as true as the tooth fairy, but it still makes me squirm, especially as the Venezuelan media published a similar story, which I still disbelieve (for now). This chain mail may just be the same story, beautified into chain-mail brainlessness.

The fear that drips from that email reveals how uncomfortable Hondurans are with the political limbo dance the US state department is contorting us into. How low can we go?

Although I know that it would be wrong, although not illegal, if I were Micheletti, I would arrest Zelaya now, and not allow Lobo to take him out of the country. Zelaya is planning to join the Parlacen, the Central American parliament, a privilege granted to ex-presidents. This means that we would never get rid of him, since the appointment is for life. This would be galling. He is a criminal, not someone I want as a representative in the Central American congress.

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3. Lobo Inaugurated as Honduran President
4. Micheletti Leaves Government Housing
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