Via the BBC: Stalemate ahead of Honduras talks
Mr Arias, who will host the two-day meeting, recognised the scale of the task.“In two days there could be a solution, or it could be that in two months there is no solution,” he said.
The following, however, amuses and puzzles me:
The interim government, which is also taking part, says it intends to ensure Mr Zelaya returns to Honduras to face trial for abusing the constitution.
Ok, so they decided not to arrest and try him on the 28th of June (instead the took him out of bed and exiled him), and then they wouldn’t let his plane land so that they could arrest and try him on the 5th of July (instead they blocked the landing strip). Now they are going to engage in negotiations so that they can do what was in their power to do twice in just over a week’s time? Perhaps they think that the third time is the charm, but it strikes me as a combination of bizarre and disingenuous behavior. Quite frankly I think that they don’t want him back in the country and yet feel that they have to talk about arrest and trial to keep up a veneer of legitimacy concerning the coup.
