(H/T: AoSHQ) Not to mention Brazil’s public and increasingly outrageous assistance to Zelaya. So it’s going to have to stop:
Honduras is accusing Brazil’s government of instigating an insurrection within its borders, and gave the Brazilian Embassy 10 days to decide the status of ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya, who has taken refuge there.
[snip]
The statement said Honduras would be forced to take measures against Brazil if Brazil did not define its position on Zelaya. It did not specify what those measures would be.
Well, according to Zelaya himself it’ll mean more hallucinogenic Jewish gas – no, really: that’s what he thinks – although it’d more likely that the Hondurans will just PNGing the entire Brazilian embassy and refusing to credential more until Zelaya is either in a Honduran jail, or is both de jure and de facto out of Honduran territory. Given the general lack of a popular uprising to ‘rescue’ the ousted former president from his durance vile, that would be a reasonably face-saving way to end the confrontation.
Mind you, the way that this administration seems determined to play Ugly American, we might not be so lucky.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to RedState.
It looks like Brazil says ‘no’. I’m breaking out the popcorn on the tenth day.
Great. Just great.
just unpacked my copy of The Ugly American today. It’s a little sad that everyone uses that phrase exactly backwards from the book, where the Ugly American is pretty much the only one in the book to take the time to learn the locals’ language and customs.