Mary Anastasia O'Grady believes the Honduran elections are about Chavez. Seriously.

[struggle4progress]

I've heard more lucid comments from freaks tripping on Orange Sunshine:

... Honduras managed to beat back the colonial aspirations of its most powerful neighbors ... If not Hugo Chávez's Waterloo, Honduras's stand at least marks a major setback for the Venezuelan strongman ... The losers in this drama also include Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Spain ... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB30001424052748703939404574566150432623012.html

[EFerrari]

1. She's reading her fax from Hugo Llorens. Remember him?

Director of the Andean Region on the National Security Council in 2002.

[struggle4progress]

2. Given Llorens' connections to Iran-Contra gangsters (like Abrams and Reich), and

his recent statements, I suppose Llorens' stance is entirely clear:

... U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens called the election "a great celebration of democracy" and said the U.S. would work with Lobo, whose nickname is Pepe. "Pepe Lobo is a man of great political experience," Llorens told HRN radio. "I wish him luck, and the United States will work with him for the good of both our countries. ... Our relations will be very strong" ...
New Honduran leader calls election clean
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-11-30-honduras-election_N.htm

... US Ambassador Hugo Llorens says there’s still time for Zelaya to return to the presidency. He insists voters have the right to go to the polls next week and the condemning the elections would be akin to blaming the entire Honduran population for the coup ...
Honduras vote
By The World ⋅ November 24, 2009
http://www.theworld.org/2009/11/24/honduras-vote/comment-page-1/

But I'd guess Llorens plays almost no role in what the WSJ prints -- the basic "whatever happens, name & blame Chavez" propaganda line was worked out by somebody else, well before Llorens was appointed ambassador -- and it requires no intelligence at all to implement

[EFerrari]

3. My bet is that it was worked out when he was on the NSC.

On the other hand, maybe he's just a good friend of Lanny Davis, too.

[Judi Lynn]

4. No doubt you're right. That thing was set to spring on exactly the right time

to kill the elected populist Presidency, then slide all the way to the election while conducting their reign of terror and disabling all the leftist candidates.

Created to get maximum impact in their favor, and remove every possible obstacle, no matter what the price to the population, and kill the honest broadcasting and publishing in the process, while striking down all the progress made by Zelaya in the meantime, so any good he had done for the people would be swept away as if it had never happened.

Sure hope we will live long enough to see these perverts get their justice handed to them.

[struggle4progress]

5. Micheletti: Hondurans told Chávez that he is "disturbed"

Honduran interim ruler Roberto Micheletti said on Thursday that the Honduran people have told President Hugo Chávez in the last Sunday elections held in the Central American country that he is "deranged" and he cannot impose anything on Honduras ... http://english.eluniversal.com/2009/12/03/en_pol_esp_micheletti:-honduran_03A3146973.shtml

We should have called him Marionetti:

http://www.virvasvala.com.nyud.net:8090/gallery/img/marionetti.jpg
http://www.ariliimatainen.fi.nyud.net:8090/mariso.jpg
http://www.radix-knihy.cz.nyud.net:8090/ryvola/Vincenzo_Marionetti.jpg

[EFerrari]

6. Pinocchio!