As our friend Ivor wrote:

On one side, the United Nations, the OAS, the United States government and, apparently, most informed opinion worldwide. Lined up against them, someone who spent 12 months as Honduran Minister of Culture – a political big-hitter, quite clearly – and your good self. It promises to be quite a battle of ideas!

Indeed it does.

And, as if by magic, the tide is turning my way, if Michael Lisman in the Guardian is anything to go by:

As the standoff continues this week, the international community would be wise to bite its tongue and instead, push for what world leaders initially called a "Honduran solution" – even if it’s not the one they had in mind.

Two points.

Honduras is very poor and (I am told) depends on a tanker of oil every couple of weeks to keep its modest economy bumping along. If those tankers stop under the weight of international pressure, popular discontent might grow. But maybe eg Taiwan or Israel will find a way to keep the odd tanker arriving..?

Second, new elections are due in Honduras in November. A good outcome for Honduras could be, as the article suggests, to bring forward those elections in which the disgraced and scheming ‘President’ Zelaya can not stand anyway and have a new President elected triumphantly to end the whole silly business.

Best outcome?

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